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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 who don’t like to compete against minorities and women do the complaining, because prior to that point they had priority.”
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- 2 Feb 2016
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…Second, I was just wondering, what are your thoughts on affirmative action, how it started, how it’s progressed since then, and would you keep it going today? I think affirmative action has done a lot of good. It’s been abused sometimes, but, for the most part, it has done good, especially for minorities and women. It’s given them the opportunity to get a foot in the door. I think people who don’t like to compete against minorities and women do the complaining, because prior to that point they had priority. Now that the gates are wide open for anybody who can be successful, people want to try to eliminate women and minorities just because they feel they’re missing out on something. I don’t agree with that. Thank you. Wooden produced a lot of great basketball players at UCLA, obviously, but it would seem to me that not very many of those great players went on to be great coaches. Do you agree with that, and can you offer an explanation?…
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