The basketball nice sounds f on the recently-fired “Empire” solid member.
TMZ caught up with Charles Barkley as he made his manner over to Ric Aptitude’s 70th birthday extravaganza. To the sector reporter’s shock, Barkley was in an unusually somber temper as he expressed combined emotions contempt and remorse over the Jussie Smollett scandal he’s no manner implicated.
In his impromptu interview with TMZ, Barkley started by crediting Smollett as a really proficient particular person, earlier than passing judgment over his actions – his declare being: Jussie has completed an incredible injustice to each the LGBTQ and Black neighborhood/ties, which Charles Barkley holds a distinguishable place within the latter class, not a lot the opposite.
The present TNT analyst additionally talked about that Smollett had completed “immeasurable harm” by allegedly taking part in each side honor/disgrace tradition, a far cry from the joking method during which Barkley imagined a state of affairs the place an earnest Jussie Smollett ought to have reported to “Liam Neeson’s neighborhood” had he wished to undergo an actual hate crime.
As this writing, Jussie Smollett denies colluding with the Osundairo brothers and is henceforth sticking to his laurels, in spite all of the damning proof to have surfaced within the public discussion board. Charles Barkley is however one many public figures representing both the LGBTQ or Black communities, who view his actions as a backward step for a collective good.