Laugh or Cry? People Dug Up Racist Tweets from Woman Whom Charles Barkley Apologized To
Not sure if y’all saw this the other day, but Charles Barkley apologized to an Axios reporter after making a joke about hitting her:
Just FYI Charles Barkley told me tonight “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you,” and then when I objected to that he told me I “couldn’t take a joke.”
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
Sounds like something Charles might say, but it was not well-received.
In a statement made through Turner PR, Barkley offered up this:
“My comment was inappropriate and unacceptable. It was an attempted joke that wasn’t funny at all. There’s no excuse for it and I apologize.”
Case closed, right?
Not exactly. Seems like Alexi McCammond was taking some crap from people in her mentions, who were asserting that this was par for the course for Sir Charles, who often treads the line between appropriate and inappropriate.
That then resulted in McCammond tweeting this, which seemed to be a non-acceptance of the apology:
The comments Charles Barkley made to me are not acceptable. Threats of violence are not a joke, & no person deserves to be hit or threatened like that. Silence only allows the culture of misogyny to fester. And those kinds of comments don't merit off-the-record protections. https://t.co/cll93GdZwh
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
What next?
Well, what happens in 2019 is that people now go through your entire social media history looking for something compromising, and that’s what took place here.
Folks combed through McCammond’s Twitter account and found posts that were racially insensitive to Asians:
And then she apologized for the old tweets:
Today I was reminded of some past insensitive tweets, and I am deeply sorry to anyone I offended. I have since deleted those tweets as they do not reflect my views or who I am today.
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
Laugh or cry? I feel like we get one of these situations at least once per month now.
