Charles Barkley.Photo:Michael Chang/Getty
Michael Chang/Getty
Charles Barkley has a message for anyone criticizing the LGBTQ+ community following conservative backlash against corporations partnering with transgender spokespersons this summer.“If you’re gay, God bless you. If you’re trans, God bless you. And if you have a problem with them — f— you,” Barkley, 60,tolda crowd at a bar in Lake Tahoe, Calif., last weekend while he was there for the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament.
The two-time basketball Hall of Famer andInside the NBAhost was competing in the celebrity golf tournament this past weekend when he made several public statements rallying against “rednecks” and “a–holes.”
Charles Barkley.Megan Briggs/Getty
Megan Briggs/Getty
Anheuser-Busch balked at the criticism, releasing a statement that said it “never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” as two marketing executives left the company in April. Then in early May, the company said that it would focus its marketing campaigns on sports and music in the future.
Charles Barkley.Isaiah Vazquez/Getty
Isaiah Vazquez/Getty
This past weekend, Barkley took a stance in the matter twice when he vowed on back-to-back nights to buy an entire Lake Tahoe bar a round of Bud Light.
Videoof his offer went viral as he addressed the crowd, who mostly cheered him on.
“I’m gonna buy some drinks for y’all and I’m gonna buy Bud Light,” Barkley says in the clip.
“Let me tell you something: All you rednecks or a–holes who don’t want to drink Bud Light, f— y’all. Hey, y’all can’t cancel me!”Barkley, who had just wrapped up his final round at the celebrity golf tournament, added: “I ain’t worried about getting canceled because let me tell you something, if y’all fire me and give me all that money, I’m gonna be playing golf every f—ing day.”
source: people.com
