The Milwaukee Bucks encouraged teams in the NBA, WNBA, MLB and MLS to boycott games on Wednesday in protest of police violence in the wake of Jacob Blake’s shooting in Wisconsin, and NBA players are now mulling a potential stop to it. season.
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Charles Barkley responded to the protest on CNN, reflecting on the size of the Bucks’ boycott.
Barkley praised NBA players for taking a stand, declaring it “exhausting” for Black players in the NBA to deal with the flood of injustice.
“The bottom line is that it’s tired black, especially if you’re a celebrity. You know, I love Tom Brady, but no one asks him about what’s going on in white America. Nobody asks Luka Doncic what’s going on in America.
White players – they have been great, but they do not live with the pressure that these young Black boys go through every day. And if you look at the last one, just back in the last few months to Ahmaud Arbery, Mr. Floyd, the young lady who screamed at the Black guy in New York, now you have Mr. Blake who just shot is, It’s all the time something.
I admire these guys for getting up, but Wolf, it’s tiring to be black, because there’s a double standard when you’re black. Because I have to comment on everything that happens in the Black community. Same with LeBron, who is our most prominent player, but man, you get tired of something all the time. “
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