'I think in a time when you're black, you got to stand up for other people,' Charles Barkley said
The Ellen DeGeneres ShowWednesday, DeGeneres, 62, personally thanked him for speaking out against discrimination, most notably when he initially pulled out of the 2017 NBA All-Star game in Charlotte, North Carolina due to the state’s controversial bathroom bill, HB2.
“Well I hated the bathroom bill, so I went to my boss and said, ‘Hey boss I’m gonna sit out of the All-Star game. I don’t want to to take away from the All-Star game, but I’m gonna sit out the All-Star game,'” Barkley, 56, recalled. “He says, ‘You can’t sit out the All-Star game, you are our biggest star,'” Barkley said. “I said, ‘Well, I gotta make a stand against discrimination. He said, ‘Let me talk to the NBA.'”
Barkley explained that thanks in part to his efforts, Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, decided to move the game out of Charlotte and to New Orleans.RELATED: Female Reporter Alleges Charles Barkley Told Her ‘I Don’t Hit Women, But if I Did I’d Hit You’ “It was a really nice gesture for the NBA,” he said. “I think in a time when you’re black, you got to stand up for other people. Black people know what discrimination is like. If your in a position of power, you got to always stand up against discrimination. I’ve been blessed man, and I’m never going to sit back and let discrimination happen on my watch.”“That’s how I feel about any discrimination at all, any inequality.
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