TNT analyst, Charles Barkley had a few things to say about Kyrie Irving promoting an anti-semitic film on his social media.
The Basketball Hall of Famer slammed the Brooklyn Nets and the NBA for “dropping the ball” for not suspending the point guard. “I think he should have been suspended him,” Barkley said. “I think Adam should have suspended him. First of all, Adam is Jewish — you can’t take my $40 million and insult my religion.”
“I think he should have been suspended.”
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“You gonna insult me, you have the right, but I have the right to say, ‘You can’t take my $40 million and insult my religion.’ I think the NBA, they made a mistake. We’ve suspended people and fined people who have made homophobic slurs. And that was the right thing to do. If you insult the Black community, you should be suspended or fined heavily.”
As we previously reported, Kyrie Irving received backlash after he tweeted out a link to a documentary called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.” According to Rollingstone, the documentary puts forward “ideas in line with more extreme factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which have a long history of misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and especially antisemitism.”
The Brooklyn Nets point guard went on Twitter Saturday to address the labels that’s being pushed on him after promoting the documentary. “I am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone’s religious beliefs. The “Anti-Semitic” label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in everyday. I embrace and want to learn from all walks of life and religions. Hélà
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Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai spoke out about Irving’s behavior in a tweet on Friday. “I’m disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-semitic disinformation,” Tsai wrote. “I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion. This is bigger than basketball.”