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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The Police Aren’t Under Attack. Institutionalized Racism Is.
TIME ^ | 12/22/2014 | Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Posted on 12/22/2014 8:18:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Poor Lou Alcinder. He’s had such a rough life in America.


21 posted on 12/22/2014 8:26:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
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To: trisham

Why anyone cares about what a thug-ball player thinks is a mystery.


22 posted on 12/22/2014 8:29:13 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: FlingWingFlyer

HIs whole career he pushed off with the off arm on the “sky hook” and still ended up at the free throw line. Special treatment player.


23 posted on 12/22/2014 8:29:26 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “Bell Curve” was right, were I to think that this idiot represents his race.


24 posted on 12/22/2014 8:30:07 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

Kareem would be correct that the murdered police officers had nothing to do with the nation-wide “protests” - if the protest movement and it’s leadership HAD NOT been saying the idiocy they’ve been saying and doing the rioting/looting they’ve been doing and chanting the calls for violence they’ve been chanting, etc.


25 posted on 12/22/2014 8:30:08 AM PST by rusty schucklefurd
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To: SeekAndFind
This coming from a guy who has been successful both on and off the court. If there is so much racism, how did Kareem amass his fortune? Or did he blow it all and now he's trying to make some dough by jumping on the race baiter bandwagon?
26 posted on 12/22/2014 8:31:04 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh and he tries the whole “the killer was unhinged and in no way motivated by the protests. Even if someone was to buy this stupid and baseless claim by Kareem, what is the excuse for the widespread cheering on twitter? Can he show us sane rational men who kill in cold blood?

He’s doing a victory by definition because he’s unwilling to admit he encouraged a man to kill cops with his rhetoric. You fill a man’s head up with lies that the police are out to kill him and then when he takes preemptive action you feign innocence and claim the man is simply unhinged.

He wasn’t crazy. He was violent and angered because of lies YOU told Kareem. Dip your hands in their blood and wipe them on your cheeks. You earned the kill. Take joy in your kill and stop whining about how it’s unfair your side is taking flak for its loea and agitation.


27 posted on 12/22/2014 8:31:04 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL, you sure like “Airplane!”, don’t you :-) Me too.


28 posted on 12/22/2014 8:31:41 AM PST by PROCON (Merry CHRISTmas!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

He might have used the cross hairs in the Sarah Palin ad as an example to make his point, but, unsurprisingly, he didn’t.


29 posted on 12/22/2014 8:32:02 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Bogey78O

Loea=lies


30 posted on 12/22/2014 8:32:48 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: SeekAndFind
At the same time, however, we need to understand that their deaths are in no way related to the massive protests against systemic abuses of the justice system as symbolized by the recent deaths—also national tragedies—of Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, and Michael Brown.

Well Lew ole buddy, you were a great basketball player, but stay out of racial politics. BTW I loved you in Airplane!

31 posted on 12/22/2014 8:33:21 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Bogey78O

Hey Lew, STFU! No one cares about what you have to say!


32 posted on 12/22/2014 8:34:37 AM PST by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here is the real problem, Abdull Jabber -— there are two many thugs in the black community who have male inseminators who just abandon their kids. In addition, many in the black community refuse to cooperate with the police in bringing to justice horrible people in their neighborhoods. Those who should be most cooperative with the police are those in the black community whose neighborhood are being ravaged by thugs. That is what has been institutionalized.


33 posted on 12/22/2014 8:34:55 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, are ya ready to support affirmative action in sports Kareem? Should every team look like America?


34 posted on 12/22/2014 8:35:17 AM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then, pray tell, why are the police the ones being demonized and attacked? Officers injured in the line of duty and insults hurled by marching mobs, defiance when confronted by police from those who are CLEARLY committing an infraction of the law, attempts to disarm policemen, attempts to try to bluff the way out of a potential arrest by charging AT the police officer, and open assassinations on the streets in broad daylight of officers who were ambushed from behind, just to name a few of the escalating steps in this macabre dance.

The purpose, or at least the effect, will be exerting Federal control on local police forces, substituting “approved” law enforcement officers for the current corps of trained and ready locally-recruited personnel, and essentially bypassing local and state control of the police altogether.


35 posted on 12/22/2014 8:35:42 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Maybe he and his good friend OJ Simpson could co-host a roundtable discussion about that.

The only institutionalized racism is directed at people who look like me.


36 posted on 12/22/2014 8:38:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, assuming all of this is true, why would or should the protesters modify their behavior? Just keep on chanting “What do we want? Dead Cops!”, and continue promoting narratives based on fictions. After all, the only people who act out violently are insane, so aren’t motivated by the actions of the dishonest agitators and protesters.


37 posted on 12/22/2014 8:39:31 AM PST by Cboldt
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The slain police officers: Rafael Ramos, 40, left, and Wenjian Liu, 32. Credit New York Police Department

The slain police officers: Rafael Ramos, 40, left, and Wenjian Liu, 32. Credit New York Police Department

38 posted on 12/22/2014 8:39:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: mylife
but the is NO institutional racism.

I believe there is plenty of institutional racism. Whites are discriminated against for college admissions and job openings. Whites can be fired for having racial opinions counter to the current politically acceptable norms. Whites can be targeted in racially motivated crimes and the government and media will ignore it. Finally, whites are derided as being inherently racist by actual racists who support the anti-white status quo.

39 posted on 12/22/2014 8:39:47 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: mylife
Jeez Kareem, I kinda like ya dude, but the is NO institutional racism.

Oh but you are wrong! What do you call affirmative action if not "institutional".

40 posted on 12/22/2014 8:41:23 AM PST by mc5cents
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