When you get drafted number one in the National Basketball Association as an 18-year-old kid, there’s a lot of responsibility that comes with it. The media can be your greatest asset or worst nightmare.

Kwame Brown entered the NBA as a teammate of Michael Jordan after the latter’s second retirement. Pressure is an understatement. He spent 12 seasons in the league earning over $65 million. He bought his mom a home on a golf course as a rookie — not bad for a kid from the projects once living on government assistance.

Kwame earned the American Dream, but there was one problem: His game didn’t match his top draft pick ranking. Kwame was drafted by Jordan and played next to him as teammates on the Washington Wizards. Let’s just say that Kwame is no stranger to criticism. He played 12 seasons in the NBA, but on seven different teams. For the past 20 years, sports media gurus have demolished Brown’s game and his name. Kwame has stayed silent as the criticisms mounted, but now the rabbit has the gun. Mr. Brown has come out swinging at his opponents in the media and the NBA fraternity, and he’s taking no prisoners.

His most notable comments have been criticizing the black community socially, politically, and economically. If you have read any of my words in the past, you know that’s a no-no. You cannot hold black people accountable for anything unless you are making them laugh. Brown is doing anything but making his opponents laugh. He’s got me crying laughing, but that’s just me. His message, although fused with expletives, speaks to the core of black people. He speaks with testosterone, which is something rarely heard of when addressing “his own people.” His latest comment involves him agreeing with public enemy number one herself, Candace Owens.

He said of his critics: “A white man has never talked to me like you’ve talked to me in the past couple of days. And then put a threat on me. A white man ain’t threatening me. You’ve been joking on me for 20 years. I joke on you for a couple of days that you asked for the jokes and now I got to get caught in traffic with my son in the car.” Brown went on to quote the late Tupac Shakur’s infamous lyric in his rant: “But y'all say it’s the white people I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here. Tupac was right then and he’s right now!” Brown doubled down, “Stop blaming white folks; you’re sick on the inside. The main ones making all that noise whooping and hollering for black folks, disagree with them and watch what they do to you. Watch what they try to do. Watch what they say to you. Watch how they talk to you, black man.”

If that’s not enough social media sound bites, the coup de grâce addressing the black community involved Candace Owens. Brown said, “Candace Owens is black and I ain’t heard a person sat down and had a healthy dialogue with this woman yet. I watched them put this woman on the stage and she’s a black woman, but she ain’t the black woman that you want to hear from. But she makes some valid points that I would like to hear someone challenge and argue with just the point and not the person.”

He’s speaking my language. The outlandish and outstanding language of personal responsibility. This is the type of language that angers and frustrates the typical African American in the 21st century. Cry me a river. Finally, someone with a larger platform speaking directly to the conditions of the POC (people of color) community without mincing his words. Brown ended this particular outburst by saying, “Educated people should be able to be emotionally strong enough to sit there and hear somebody’s point. You’re teaching at colleges to not like people. That’s not the debates that I used to see. When I grew up, a debate was about the content and the message. Two people say their point of view and we see who had the most facts. Now, as soon as a person walks in the room, ‘Oh no, get them out of here! Call 911!’”

Kwame Brown is speaking to the political correctness of college students when someone like Candace Owens is on campus — students are simply outraged without any substance to present a counterargument.

Kwame was drafted as the top draft pick of the 2003 season, but I’m glad he decided to throw his name in the hat for this most important draft to wake people up while there’s a chance.