Charles Barkley actually laughed. Giggled, in fact.

If that wasn’t reaction enough, the NBA analyst then gave his thoughts after watching Nikki Haley claim America “has never been a racist country.”

She made the comments on Fox News.

“She’s 100 percent correct,” Barkley said on CNN’s King Charles, along with co-host Gayle King. “If you forget about slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, antisemitism, Asian hate that’s been going on in this country. America’s been smooth sailing! You can’t be surprised. That was just stupid. America was built on racism.”

Barkley was baffled by the comments from the presidential candidate.

“You can criticize the country,” he explained. “This is the greatest country in the world. But you can still criticize it. Anybody who thinks we don’t have racism – you turn on the TV every single day, there’s racism. And for her, somebody who wants to be the president of the United States to say something that stupid, that’s just stupid.”

In typical Barkley fashion, the former NBA great managed to bring his own humor to the conversation.

“I think the reason she said everything is rosy with Black people,” he said, “she’s been in New Hampshire and Iowa for the last two months, she ain’t seen no Black people.”

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.