“You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.”

—  Charles Barkley

Interview in the New York Post in October 2000.
Notes: Although Barkley popularised the phrase, it was likely first used several months earlier http://www.snopes.com/quotes/chrisrock.asp by Chris Rock.

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