Stephen A. Smith Supports Charles Barkley's Right to Speak Up!

JUST SAY'n...Stephen A. Smith's take on Kenny Smith's open letter to Charles Barkley basically results in he stating that all people what a right to express their opinions whatever they may be, because there is value to be gained from expressing those opinions and individuals with the platforms to speak on social issues do not have to be experts or scholars in a particular forum, but rather courageous enough to use their platform to express their position. I get this, but I don't think that the gist of Smith's letter to Barkley was that Charles should not speak out, but rather that Charles should understand the status that his opinions have, not in the Black community, because for the most part, his opinions(this is my estimation) don't mean much there. But rather, his opinions are disseminated throughout American society as a whole as those which represent "good" Blacks and the way that Blacks"should" think. That is the danger of a person expressing the views that Charles promotes. He does not speak for Black America and while it is understood, that all Americans have an opinion, Charles and Stephen A. represent their opinions and happen to have a platform to express them. And they have to understand, that people have a right to place more value on the opinions of individuals who are skilled and qualified to engage in matters of social unrest both from a political and legal perspective. That is, it's nice that we all have opinions, but social change is quite a step above stating an opinion and the discerning individual can distinguish between the two. Case in point, Charles' response to Kenny's open letter clearly demonstrated that his future statements should never be promoted to represent Black people as a whole because Blacks do not agree that there were any redeemable qualities to slavery and it has been through the resiliency of a people and the Grace of God that slavery was overcome...and that's MY opinion ...JUST SAY'n.