{"id":59133,"date":"2021-04-04T15:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=59133"},"modified":"2021-04-04T15:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:42:01","slug":"were-so-stupid-following-our-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=59133","title":{"rendered":"<b>&#8220;We&#8217;re So Stupid Following Our Politicians&#8221;<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;We&#8217;re So Stupid Following Our Politicians&#8221; &#8211; Charles Barkley Unleashes One Minute Of Truth On America<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Forget Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;Two Minutes Hate.&#8221; NBA legend Charles Barkley unleashed &#8216;One Minute Truth&#8217; on NCAA-Final-Four-watchers last night, telling viewers that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cI truly believe in my heart most white people and black people are awesome people, but we\u2019re so stupid following our politicians, whether they\u2019re Republicans or Democrats.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-04-04_8-00-16.jpg?itok=FaLp09R1\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-04-04_8-00-16.jpg?itok=FaLp09R1\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-04-04_8-00-16.jpg?itok=FaLp09R1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9049f74e-2f9e-4f86-a685-15958ce750ad\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barkley was responding to a feature that detailed how on April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy broke the news about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to a crowd in Indianapolis, urging people to seek compassion and justice rather than anger and revenge, saying the vast majority of Americans, both black and white, want to live in peace with each other.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A2kWIa8wSC0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated two months later.<\/p>\n<p>This was the same message Barkley offered, as he warned:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they\u2019re Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, he described what he believes to be the thinking behind the divide-and-conquer strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cHey, let\u2019s make these people not like each other. We don\u2019t live in their neighborhoods, we all got money, let\u2019s make the whites and blacks not like each other, let\u2019s make rich people and poor people not like each other, let\u2019s scramble the middle class.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch the full clip here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1378525494929469440&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fwere-so-stupid-following-our-politicians-charles-barkley-unleashes-one-minute-truth&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1378525494929469440\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is not the first time Barkley has unleashed uncomfortable truths. In September of last year he dared to speak common sense against the left&#8217;s calls to defund the police, arguing that poor black communities would be hit hardest by a spike in crime if there is less policing.\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cWho are black people supposed to call, Ghostbusters, when we have crime in our neighborhood?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1309289936315715584&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fwere-so-stupid-following-our-politicians-charles-barkley-unleashes-one-minute-truth&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1309289936315715584\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>How long will it be before the outrage mob comes for Barkley for taking such a &#8220;<strong>bothist<\/strong>&#8221; common-sense and honest view and refusing to be drawn, like weak CEOs or pandering politicians to one side or the other in our ever more divisive society?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already begun&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1378571931616690176&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fwere-so-stupid-following-our-politicians-charles-barkley-unleashes-one-minute-truth&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1378571931616690176\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;sigh<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/were-so-stupid-following-our-politicians-charles-barkley-unleashes-one-minute-truth\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/were-so-stupid-following-our-politicians-charles-barkley-unleashes-one-minute-truth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re So Stupid Following Our Politicians&#8221; &#8211; Charles Barkley Unleashes One Minute Of Truth On America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}