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The liberal left has a grand sense of entitlement in relation to dictating black males’s actions and even our ideas.
Their fixed expectation, freely expressed, is that black males should stay subordinate to a race-centered dogmatic worldview.
The high quality of your character doesn’t matter to them: If you’re a black man who thinks for himself, you’ll face the wrath of a multi-racial liberal coalition hell-bent on ridiculing you into submission.
Saquon Barkley, the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl-winning operating back, is simply the newest man to collide with this grievance-obsessed syndicate.
On Sunday, when he selected to golf with President Trump the day earlier than his staff’s scheduled White House celebration of their championship, Barkley confronted an onslaught of abuse.
While some of his teammates, together with quarterback Jalen Hurts, gained popularity of selecting to not attend the conventional White House operate, Barkley caught heat for embracing an alternative to spend one-on-one time with the president of the United States.
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“Disappointing, to say the very least,” scolded former Eagles security Malcolm Jenkins.
Philadelphia sportswriter Les Bowen dripped with condescension at Barkley’s “cluelessness.”
“It’s tricky when people in sports . . . blunder into stuff they don’t fully grasp,” Bowen whitesplained on X. “Not a bad guy, but out of his depth.”
“This skin doesn’t rub off,” lamented commentator and activist Keith Boykin, who sniffed that Barkley’s golf outing was not “in the best interest of black America.”
Barkley at the White House with Trump and his grandson Theodore Kushner. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Boykin even made a dig at Barkley’s biracial household — posting that the Eagles star “cannot escape or erase your blackness by making millions of dollars . . . marrying a white person, or even raising biracial children.”
To his credit, Barkley pushed proper back, laughingly posting about the hysterical response to his cordial interplay with Trump.
“Lol some people are really upset cause I played golfed and flew to the White House with the PRESIDENT,” he wrote on X. “Maybe I just respect the office, not a hard concept to understand. Just golfed with Obama not too long ago . . . Now ya get out my mentions with all this politics and have amazing day.”
It was simply a golf outing, not an endorsement or an expression of help for Trump.
Yet the public shaming is a tactic we’ve seen repeatedly — seen as acceptable, even anticipated, particularly as a result of of Barkley’s id.
He is black and a man, and our demographic is just tolerated if we’re doing as we’re advised.
Recall when former President Barack Obama lambasted black males during the 2024 marketing campaign for our “lack of enthusiasm” about Kamala Harris.
The second we dared to ask questions on the Democratic candidate’s competence, Obama reworked into a finger-wagging male feminist who implied our impartial thought was a relic of misogyny.
To the left, it’s very clear there are solely two sorts of acceptable black males: those that stay silent and do as they’re advised, and those that loudly and effeminately defend a downtrodden ideology that infantilizes us.
The insults that flew at Barkley from nameless accounts, calling him a “coon” and worse for in accordance equal respect to Trump and Obama, have to be seen as makes an attempt to control black male habits.
Saquon Barkley shaking arms with President Trump during the Philadelphia Eagles’ go to to the White House. Daniel Torok/White House
Barkley mentioned nothing about his personal politics, however America’s leftists appear to assume of themselves as hammers — and that any opposite political motion made by a black man is a nail that requires their drive.
Partisans can’t conceive that any particular person can select to not take a aspect, and partisans of the left-wing selection imagine that something a black particular person does have to be motivated by group activism.
That’s the very definition of racism.
Barkley dedicated the cardinal sin of racial politics by not caring about racial politics — and for his blasphemy he should undergo the damnation inflicted upon him by our society’s most race-obsessed.
What the effeminate left doesn’t perceive is you could’t disgrace sturdy males into apologizing after they really feel they did nothing incorrect, and you may’t guilt them into altering their habits to appease strangers.
Just like I respect Barkley’s resolution to fulfill with Trump, I respect Jalen Hurts’ selection to remain home.
A distinction of their political views doesn’t make both man more or much less black.
Adam B. Coleman is the writer of “The Children We Left Behind” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing.
