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Published · transcript-backedKareem Abdul-Jabbar: evaluation
2 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
“I think that failure has led to a lot of these problems and has given rise to a segregation of schooling where you have private schools that are for wealthy white people and the public schools that have very poor teachers and very bad facilities that are for everyone else.”
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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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…You’ve been in this country for a while. The general question of prejudice through a kind of bigotry of soft expectations: how much better is that today in your opinion? I don’t think the soft expectations have benefited minority communities very well. I think we still suffer from that. A lot of people seem to be able to accept it and understand it because they know how terrible our public school systems are and how they have failed, in many cases, to educate the students in their districts. I think that failure has led to a lot of these problems and has given rise to a segregation of schooling where you have private schools that are for wealthy white people and the public schools that have very poor teachers and very bad facilities that are for everyone else. We suffer because of that. What’s your view of charter schools?…
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