Posted on 12/22/2014 3:38:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the years since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hung up his playing shoes, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer has collected a host of titles, including filmmaker, author and cultural ambassador.
He’s been a vocal advocate for African-Americans, and this weekend penned an essay for Time Magazine on the shooting deaths of two NYPD officers on Saturday.
Some have linked the shooting to the protests that sprung up after grand juries failed to prosecute the officers who killed Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Abdul-Jabbar disagrees, saying the suggestion the killer was acting in solidarity with the protests is false and a danger to the cause.
“The protests are no more to blame for his actions than The Catcher in the Rye was for the murder of John Lennon or the movie Taxi Driver for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan,” he writes. “Crazy has its own twisted logic and it is in no way related to the rational cause-and-effect world the rest of us attempt to create.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Those racist bastards paid you millions upon millions to play a game! Lew Alcindor is a jerk!
What he is saying is don’t let facts interfere with your myths.
Quit spouting nonsense...that would be a good start.
"Institutional Racism," my @ss.
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