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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)
“If black people can go where they want to go, and no one is going to oppose them, I think that’s a good thing, and that is people making their own choices without any coercion from the law, enforcing something that some people find odious.”
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- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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- 2 Feb 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…The way it actually works and feels. Something that’s not in the numbers, but that you understand better than I do, because you have a different, and in some ways deeper, richer, longer life experience. I would think that the fact that as a black American, I can [now] go and buy a home in any neighborhood that I can afford to move into, and the law is going to back me, I think that is a big factor in all of this. If black people can go where they want to go, and no one is going to oppose them, I think that’s a good thing, and that is people making their own choices without any coercion from the law, enforcing something that some people find odious. I think you’re 68 years old, according to Wikipedia.…
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