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Published · transcript-backedColeman Hughes: belief
1 May 2024 Conversations with Tyler Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity
“I do think, in the same way that some people have probably given me some false praise for being young or that’s added to their opinion of me, I think the fact that he’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a former basketball player who happens to have this other skill might lead people to rate his output in that other domain somewhat more highly.”
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- Coleman Hughes
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- 1 May 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, overrated or underrated? I would say overrated as a commentator. Perhaps it’s because he’s often writing about things that were within my pet purview, and because we may have disagreements that are small in the big picture but seem large to me. He’s much more likely to jump to racism as an explanation for phenomena in the media. I do think, in the same way that some people have probably given me some false praise for being young or that’s added to their opinion of me, I think the fact that he’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a former basketball player who happens to have this other skill might lead people to rate his output in that other domain somewhat more highly. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.…
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