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Published · transcript-backedKareem Abdul-Jabbar: recommendation
2 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
“I don’t know how we’re going to work on the poverty situation unless, again, the educational system is up to speed and can educate people so they can escape poverty.”
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- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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- 2 Feb 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…One reader writes to me, “Ask Kareem what are some highly leveraged actions we could take to improve systematic poverty in this country.” I don’t know how we’re going to work on the poverty situation unless, again, the educational system is up to speed and can educate people so they can escape poverty. You can’t escape poverty given that you can barely read and write. That’s not going to work. You can get a job lifting things or you can get a job — I have a friend, his son is an underachiever at school. I told him to tell him if you can memorize eight words he can be employed for the rest of his life. The guy said, “What are those eight words?” I said, “Welcome to McDonald’s. May I take your order?” [laughter] That’s what it’s coming down to. Speaking of policies, the war on drugs. Is it working? Is it racist? Is it wrecking our inner cities? What’s your view?…
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