THREE CHEERS, NO MAKE THAT FIVE, FOR CHARLES BARKLEY

The basketball great blames the black community for some of the police shootings of blacks and defends white cops

As expected, Charles Barkley has come under blistering attacks for remarks he has made about the Michael Brown shooting. Here are some of the former basketball star’s infuriating (to blacks) comments:

There is no excuse for people to be out there burning down people's businesses, burning down police cars. Those aren't black people, those are scumbags.

We have to be really careful with the cops, because if it wasn’t for the cops we would be living in the Wild, Wild West in our neighborhoods. We can’t pick out certain incidentals that don’t go our way and act like the cops are all bad. Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

We as black people, we got a lot of crooks

There's a reason they racially profile us at times. Sometimes it's wrong, sometimes its right.

The notion that white cops are out there just killing black people--that's ridiculous. That's just flat out ridiculous. And I challenge any black person to try to make that point.

We have to look at ourselves in the mirror,' he said of people in black communities. 'To act like we hold no responsibility for some of this stuff is disingenuous.

Barkley agreed with the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson. “The true story came out from the grand jury testimony. Three or four witnesses, who were black, said exactly what the cop said. I can’t believe anything I hear on television anymore.”

Barkley also voiced his support for the New York cops in the recent choke hold death of Eric Garner, a huge black man who resisted being arrested of the illegal sales of cigarettes. “When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong. I don't think they were trying to kill Mr. Garner. He was a big man and they tried to get him down.”

In 2013, Barkley also infuriated blacks when he publically supported the exoneration of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting.

Barkley, of course, is politically incorrect for speaking the truth about the Michael Brown shooting uproar and the distrust between the cops and the black community. That’s why I say, five cheers for Charles Barkley!