Barkley on 'Black Enough'

John Hinderaker, senior blogger at Power Line, quotes at some length the thoughts of former NBA star and sports analyst Charles Barkley, as reported by The Daily Caller. Barkley said the following:

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.

One of the reasons we’re never going to be successful as a whole, because of other black people. And for some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. And it’s a dirty, dark secret.

We’re the only ethnic group who say, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.’ It’s just typical BS that goes on when you’re black, man.

I have no idea how to change the culture Barkley describes eloquently. Words like "self-defeating" come to mind. Change, if it ever comes, will have to arise from within the black community.