Posted on 04/30/2014 5:33:13 PM PDT by kingattax
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says the feeding frenzy surrounding the Donald Sterling saga shows the United States has become enamored with a culture of "morally superior head shaking" at the expense of dealing with issues substantively.
In a column for Time magazine, Jabbar, an NBA superstar for 20 years for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers, writes, "Moral outrage is exhausting. And dangerous. The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking."
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And y’all white folks thoght he was just a dumb jock!
Jabar (aka Lew Alcindor) is correct. Too many manners police, and always just for one side, the liberal, amoral, pagan points of view.
Nice to hear a voice of reason from an American....who happens to be black....
No, he won on Jeopardy.
Chong, of Cheech and Chong, is smart too.
Seems like an interesting guy.
I think someone in my extended family has a curious claim to fame -- in that he apparently worked as a custodian in Lew Alcindor's grade school in New York City and convinced the tall, gangly kid that he'd be a great basketball player.
he also appeared in a Bruce Lee movie if my memory is correct....
You have to be smart to be an airline pilot after all.
Look, he knows it’s BS and he knows the others are just engaging in just a little cultural Mau-Mau to see how far they can get with it.
If you can end up swiping a few hundred million just by frying a guy with some off color remarks, whatta scam!
And that’s all that’s going on. Everyone’s piling on with the crocodile tears because they can.
Karem Abdul-Jabbar a.k.a. Roger Murdock
"I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!"
Roger !
A pretty funny movie too!!
I donno, I don't think Jabbar would want Magic hanging out with his women either, I think he's racist too. Has nothing to do with AIDS.
Love that scene.
Gonna put that on right now for background (busy w/ other stuff).
Magic Johnson who promiscuously slept with every woman he could and came down HIV positive and was somehow made a hero because of it? I’d tell the woman in my life to stay away from him too.
Lew Alcindor went to Power Memorial HS in NYC. IIRC, It was one of the more academically competitive Catholic high schools in the city at the time.
A friend’s brother used to take the train to NYC to watch Power Memorial’s games after his school’s team concluded its bb season. I remember hearing about Alcindor from when he was a h.s. sophomore, I guess.
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