Charles Barkley Comments on Moving 2017 NBA All-Star Game out of Charlotte

April 6th, 2016 by Timothy Rapp Leave a reply »

NBA Hall of Famer and Turner Sports basketball analyst Charles Barkley said in an interview with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield that the NBA should pull the 2017 All-Star Game out of North Carolina in the wake of the state's new law that requires transgender people to use public restrooms matching the sex from their birth certificates.  

The LGBT community and its supporters have decried the law as being discriminatory, and Barkley believes the NBA should support that community, as he revealed in his comments (excerpt via Cyd Zeigler of SB Nation's Outsports):

I think the NBA should move the All-Star game from there next year. As a black person I'm against any form of discrimination, against whites, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, however you want to phrase it. It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves. So I think the NBA should move the All-Star game from Charlotte.

The full interview can be seen below:

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