Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Takes Us All to Task on Donald Sterling
Former Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who served as a special assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers in 2000, takes issue with our collective response to the alleged racist comments made by Clippers owner Donald Sterling over the weekend.
In an opinion piece for Time, Abdul-Jabbar writes that Sterling is “the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come out of the racist closet’’ and takes the public and the media to task for their emphatic response to some racial indignities and not others. He cites three lawsuits against Sterling over the years as stories we should have been more outraged at in the first place.
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Abdul-Jabaar’s main takeway is that we shouldn’t let the sensational dictate our beliefs on what should be core human issues.
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