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Article: Charles Barkley, best known as the motor mouth of the NBA

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February 18, 1995
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Howie Evans
New York Amsterdam News
02-18-1995
Charles Barkley, best known as the motor mouth of the NBA.

There are times Charles Barkley must realize and understand he cannot be Charles Barkley. Barkley's toss-away remark during an NBA All-Star Weekend press conference, "See, that's why I hate White people," was said in jest, but emerged otherwise, setting off a nation-wide controversy.

With a nation divided as the O.J. Simpson murder trial plays out in Los Angeles, with the student demonstrations and protests at Rutgers University, triggered by racially insensitive remarks regarding "genetic hereditary background" of Blacks by university president Francis I. Lawrence, and with Houston ...

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