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Published · transcript-backedKareem Abdul-Jabbar: belief
2 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
“I think people’s lives should be given the priority in how to solve this problem — getting people off of these things and understanding that it’s very detrimental to their future.”
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- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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- 2 Feb 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Would you decriminalize and, in essence, stop the war on drugs? I don’t think you can completely decriminalize it. But you have to understand that there is something that we want to rescue from the situation, and that’s people’s lives. I think people’s lives should be given the priority in how to solve this problem — getting people off of these things and understanding that it’s very detrimental to their future. Here’s a sentence you wrote in your book, Kareem. I’ll read it out loud. Tell me if you would still say the same, because that book is now a few years old. “The Republican agenda seems basically indifferent to people’s hardships, but I agree with its position that handouts are not the solution to social problems.”…
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