Two weeks ago, Charles Barkley weighed in on the police shootings in Baton Rouge, Minnesota and Dallas. He said that there was blame to go around when it came to the black community and the relationship with police.

The TNT analyst and Hall of Famer defended that stance in an interview with Bleacher Report Radio on Tuesday.

Barkley was asked about Michael Jordan’s comments on the police shootings and Black Lives Matter movement. He praised Jordan for actively donating to charity, and doubled down on his comments from July 12, noting that he heard the criticism for his remarks.

He said:

“Number one, I appreciate anybody who has given a couple million dollars to charity. We’re blessed. God bless him for that. “As I’ve said before, and some people criticized me. I told them to kiss my ass because I can. We in the black community, we need the cops. Cops are important. They’re very significant. We as black people gotta do a better job of policing ourselves. The cops have made some mistakes — I think everybody has to admit that. But we just can’t as black people, every time something goes wrong, say it’s the cops’ fault. We have done some damage to our own neighborhood, and we’ve got to do better in that aspect.”

Barkley continued:

“But we need the cops. They are important. If it weren’t for the cops, we’d be living in the Wild Wild West. But it’s not as simple as that it’s always the cops’ fault. We as black people have made some mistakes, we’ve got to do a better job of policing ourselves. “There’s no right or wrong answer. That’s the one thing about being black, black people only like you when you say what they want you to say. But I’ve been in that game for a long time, so that doesn’t faze me. I’m a big boy. I can handle the heat. “But Michael (Jordan) gave money. God bless him.”

You can listen to the full interview here.