Hillary Clinton’s inability to draw as much energy from Black voters gave Trump the White House once. History makes the importance of the Black vote clear.īarack Obama’s overwhelming popularity with Black voters gave him the White House twice. Trump was speaking to the Black Conservative Federation, an acknowledgment that if he can peel off enough Black support, he’s going to have a chance to beat Joe Biden in November. It’s funny stuff, but it also foreshadows a serious issue. “I will bail myself out and go celebrate,” he said. He wasn’t worried about the legal ramifications, apparently. “First of all … if I see a Black person walking around with a Trump mug shot, I’m gonna punch him in the face,” Barkley said. (And if this isn’t proof that we need critical race theory in schools, I don’t know what is.) Black voters can make or break electionsīarkley, Arizona’s most famous Black resident, reacted on his CNN show “King Charles” with pure disgust. And they actually viewed me as being discriminated against.
“A lot of people said that’s why the Black people liked me,” Trump said, “because they had been hurt so badly and discriminated against. Team USA won the warm-up and their 1996 Games showdown too, but Heal earned an NBA deal while Australia went on to finish fourth in the Atlanta Olympics.Trump, who’s facing more than 90 felony charges in a slew of cases, compared his situation to the history of Black oppression. Kenny Smith jumped in: “Didn’t you want to fight Shane Heal at the Olympics?”īarkley replied: “He wanted to fight me! You almost didn’t have no daughter." “Shane Heal, I want to congratulate you on your daughter,” he said, “but you are so lucky I didn’t kill your ass at the Olympics. “Yes,” Johnson said, before Barkley continued. CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter April 16, 2021 “The daughter of,” Ernie Johnson replied.Ĭharles Barkley congratulates on his daughter getting drafted, tells him he's lucky they didn't fight at the Olympics or he might not have a daughter /tuU9yuLYyG “That one girl, her name was Heal from Australia …”
“Can I ask you a question?” Barkley said. Speaking as part of the NBA on TNT crew, included Barkley spoke up when Heal's name was read out. “During the battle he was a knucklehead but then you forget about it and you move on.”īut 25 years later, Barkley clearly hadn't forgotten, when discussing the incident after Helal's daughter Shyla, was drafted with the No. “From that point on he was great,” recalled Heal in a 2013 article for The Guardian.
Heal would finish with eight three-pointers for the match from 13 attempts, but after nailing his fourth on the night, Dream Team enforcer Barkley took umbrage with him as you can see below.įollowing the game, Barkley embraced Heal in a sign of respect for the upstart Australian standing his ground. That was especially so between Heal and Barkley, with the American being less than impressed as Heal repeatedly knocked in from three-pointers from down town. Heal was playing for Australia against the USA Dream Team in an exhibition match leading up to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and it's fair to say things got a little testy between the two teams. It may have been 25 years ago, but NBA champ Charley Barkley appears to have a long memory of Australian Shane Heal.