Part of what makes legendary NBA player turned award-winning analyst Charles Barkley special is that no matter how many times it may land him in hot water, he is never afraid to speak his mind.
Recently, Barkley touched on a bit of a taboo topic, spanking kids as a parent, and made it crystal clear that he is in support of it.
“People talking about you can’t yell at your kids. Yes, hell you can yell at your kids,” Barkley said in an appearance on The Dan Patrick Show. “You’ll whoop their a** too.”
“I believe in discipline,” Barkley continued, after Patrick pushed back some. “I’m not going around telling people to beat their kids, but I think if you don’t spank your kids and discipline them, they turn into some of these brats that we got today. I’m not here for child abuse, but how are kids gonna know they’re doing something wrong.
“First of all, you can’t rationalize with kids, they’re dumber than rocks. They don’t know they doing stuff wrong, but when you spank them, that gets the message across because they don’t want that.”
In his usual fashion, Barkley wasn’t too concerned about any backlash he might face.
“You can blast me on social media,” he said. “You guys know I don’t do social media. I don’t ever read any comments, I don’t care what you think, y’all can kiss my big Black ass, I’m gonna say what I gotta say. Some of y’all gonna like it and some of y’all not. And y’all will get over it.”
As great a personality as it is, Patrick learned the hard way that you never know what you’re going to get with The Chuckster.