Social Media Finds Old 'Racist' Tweets From Reporter Who Accused Charles Barkley of Threatening Her (PICS)

Social Media Finds Old ‘Racist’ Tweets From Reporter Who Accused Charles Barkley of Threatening Her (PICS)

Social media is truly undefeated.

On Tuesday night, Charles Barkley started to receive a wave of backlash after an Axios reporter posted on Twitter that the NBA Hall of Famer told her, “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you.”

Alexi McCammond said Barkley made that comment after she asked for clarification over which Democratic presidential candidate he supports ahead of the 2020 race.

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

I hate being part of a story so here’s a reminder that this is so much bigger than me: nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the US. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence https://t.co/eqgn0McbYt https://t.co/nll7a0rv2o
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019

Turner Sports PR would soon release an apology on behalf of Barkley, saying the statements he made were “inappropriate and unacceptable.”

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Statement on behalf of Charles Barkley in response to tweet by Axios reporter Alexi McCammond:

“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.”
— TurnerSportsPR (@TurnerSportsPR) November 20, 2019

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Alexi responded to that apology and that’s when other Twitter users began calling her out for past racist-like tweets she has to delete.

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

Here are a few:

Should’ve scrubbed your Twitter before you started this fight pic.twitter.com/g2vm18h5SL

— Will Applebee (@NOTSCWill) November 20, 2019

Ight but are you apologizing for this? Since cancel culture wanna jump on everything pic.twitter.com/cAddOqS7DM

— Tay Scandrick ? (@Tayaiko_) November 20, 2019

People like you (cunts) are #HumanGarbage. Your narcissism & attention seeking transcends your “morality,” clouds the ability for people actually going through traumatic abuse from speaking up, and diminishes whatever credibility you have both as a human and a “journalist”. pic.twitter.com/WtpjdfY9lz

— Wolfe (@everytimeicash) November 20, 2019

and even after she thought she deleted them all ? pic.twitter.com/h3SQOukd7o

— robin “thanos” lopez (@Suzuki_SZN) November 20, 2019