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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

lines on the record: 86
first: 2016-02-02
most recent: 2016-02-02
sittings or episodes: 1
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“The reason that young kids today don't learn how to shoot hook shots is because everybody is so enamored with the three-point shot. So the kids, they don't want two points. They don't want to work with their back to the basket. That's not cool. They want to go out there in the stratosphere and shoot three pointers. I didn't think that that worked for the longest time. That did not work as solid basketball strategy. But now when we have a time, when you have people like”
2016-02-02 · Conversations with Tyler · Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I thank you for remembering that game and just the problem that we had with the Pistons was when the series started, Magic Johnston got hurt and Byron Scott got hurt and we had to play that series without our starting back court. So we got swept. Nothing you can do about that. But I didn't want people to see me going out on a bum note. So I gave it my best effort.”
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“I'm not saying that because of envy. Earl couldn't shoot the ball from beyond eight feet. He could leap out of the gym, but he couldn't shoot the ball beyond eight feet, and he wasn't interested in passing it. You wouldn't make it very far on any team if you don't want to pass the ball. So I don't think Earl would have made it very far because he had to have the ball by himself. He was a one-on-one player. He didn't understand the team game. So that's why I'm critical of Earl. But nice guy. He messed up his life with drugs, but tried to make up for it in the latter part of his life by being involved with the community projects that told kids to stay off of drugs. So I respect, I have a great deal of respect for the way he went out. He went out trying to do the right thing.”
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“Jackie Chan has done a great job. I think he's an incredible actor. I think he has really continued the tradition of Bruce Lee in another way in that he has continued to make the martial arts popular and have kids realize that they too can be close to superheroes.”
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“I think Michael Jackson certainly deserves all the credit he got. He was an incredible performer. I knew Michael not very well, but I knew Michael. On Sundays, a good friend of mine would take them to do normal things. Their dad was the typical stage dad from hell who just wanted him to work and make all this money. But my friend just was very intense that they get to do some normal things. So on Sundays, this is while I was going to UCLA. He would take them and take them to a gym and we'd play basketball and then he'd treat me to brunch. So it was a good deal for me and I got to know the Jacksons at great kids. It's really tragic about Michael, but he certainly deserved all the credit he got.”
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“I think John LeCaray, all the credit he gets he deserves. He's an incredible author and just his understanding. Starting with when I was in high school, we came in from Nicole. And then as an adult, I've read everything that he's written just about. Really, he doesn't get enough credit, I think. And John McCaray actually was an operative for British intelligence. He worked in Germany, and he was betrayed by Kim Philby, who was the mole in the, if you read Tinkertay Soldiers Rye, you know that there was a mole in the British Foreign Service. That actually happened, and John Lee Corray, his group was compromised by that. And they had to disappear out in Berlin and get back to England. Philby did a lot of damage to their network of espionage and intelligence people.”
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“Not necessarily well to do, but a British citizen with all of the wonderful parts of his life are coming up. He's just recently graduated from Cambridge, and he has a beautiful fiance, and he has a great job with the British Foreign Office, who has found him to be a very capable administrator. And it's all looking up for him. And then things start to happen. I can't tell you about that. You have to buy the book.”
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“I think that I kind of tend to be more Cyrus Douglas than Mycroft. And just my vision of their interaction is the fact that there was a lot of value in the colonies that the Victorian British did not appreciate. And in forming his friendship with Cyrus Douglas Mycroft actually gets a glimpse at how the British colonial system has affected people for the good and the bad. And he has the courage to develop a friendship with a black person which was frowned upon really by the British. But he can see obviously that it has no value. That gold is where you find it, and gold in people is where you find it. So I think that's why dear friendship is so strong, because Microsoft appreciates the fact that Cyrus is a good person with a good moral center. And he accommodates him as a friend because of that. And my crop being”
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“I think you're missing something. I think it's become more culturally relevant because the movie industry has had more or less... Renaissance, and the whole idea of having a place where you can make movies completely is still very appealing. It's taken its own identity. It's not just the place that you go after you leave San Francisco. Probably now you go to LA first and then go to San Francisco on your way home. So I think that Los Angeles is still a very vital and vibrant place.”
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“But the whole ambience of parliament will change just as the population changes. But it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just that we move on.”
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“Harlem is gentrifying now. So people who want to have a spacious apartment are combing Harlem right now as I speak so they can live in Manhattan and still have some space. So I actually tried to move back to Harlem and I couldn't do it, I couldn't deal with the winter. You can tell I've become...”
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“I know for a fact that Jazz isn't dead because it has taken on around the world. So many people around the world want to play jazz. You see jazz musicians now coming from all kinds of places that you would not think of, like Azerbaijan and Indonesia. And people that can sit down and play all of Duke Ellington's repertoire, there was Alto saxophonist from Azerbaijan, and it had all of Charlie Parker's down, all of them. That's all he had done. It's incredible. But I think the fact that Jazz has affected music around the world and there are still people who enjoy classical jazz will make it or survive. The whole idea of prophets being strangers in their own country, I think, is more or less what has happened to jazz, but I don't think it's dead. I wouldn't use that term.”
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“That is incredible. And I think just the whole collaboration of the Gershwins and other people of their ilk with the Harlem Renaissance. Very interesting. If you read the stories of the Gershwans and their good friend Fat Swaller, lots of laughs. And that's had to go to jail a couple of times for some of the things that he did. For example, he would sell Fats Wild was a great pianist and songwriter. He would sell his, if he would get a good song, he would sell it to one publishing company. And then later on that afternoon sell it to another. Publishing company. And then two days after that, go find some other publishing companies to sell it to. And he ended up in the Huscal for that. That's had a very interesting life.”
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“For me, the most underappreciated one is seven steps to heaven. And that shows, I think, Miles' best group, this big argument, what was Miles' best group, the one that had cannonball Adelaide Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Philly Joe Jones and Red Garland, or Herbie Hancock, Braun Carter, Tony Williams, and Wayne Shorter. So people from both of those groups play on that one album, and all of the cuts are awesome. So I would say that that's probably the best one that does not get very much attention.”
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“Oh, I thought Sun Ra was a pretty incredible. While I was in college, he would play at another club in New York called Slug Saloon. He would play on Monday nights. It was just him on Monday nights. And you never knew what group he would show up with. He'd bring in different sidemen each time. But he was fascinating because he would play straight ahead jazz and then go off into some very esoteric ultramodern, bizarre kind of stuff. Think about the difference between cubism and renoir. And that's kind of the difference in some of the things that he put out there, but he was brilliant pianist and great performer.”
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“To sit down and then Thalonius looked at us like we can't muscle in on his act and he continued dancing and then he sat down. But that was a pretty funny night seeing this little Mr. Gordon was only about five foot two or three. Acting on me. Sit down and let everybody see the stage.”
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“But the funny story was the loniest would get up in dance sometimes in the club. And the New York Cabaret laws are really weird. And so you can't dance in the club, but you can stand and rock around with the music or something. I don't know. But the longest we get up and dance, and then me and my friend who babysitted for Ben, we would get up and dance with him. So Mr. Gordon, Max Gordon was the owner of the vanguard. He said, look, you can't dance with Mr. Monk. I'm going to have problems with the cabaret commission because if you're dancing in this, it's no longer a jazz club. It's a dance hall and he would have all kinds of difficult problems and get summoned by the city of New York. So we're trying to dance and Mr. Gordon is pulling Anastal Nut.”
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“Opposite, which requires explanation an incredible cultural experience, but a good friend of mine was the babysitter for Thalonius' drummer. So one night he had a hot date. He said, Kareem, you've got to double stand in for me and babysit Corey Riley, who was Ben Riley's drummer. So I said, okay, I'll do that. I went and did it. And Ben's wife came home. She didn't know me. She was like, but she knew who I was. But because I would do that for Ben's family, they said, well, once Inez gets home, you can come on down to the vanguard and catch the act. So starting for when I was in high school through college, I went to the village of Vanguard anytime Thalonius was there and I was in town. I tried to go. And it was a great part of my life.”
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“My favorite the loneliness monk story occurred when I was in, I went to hear him one night, I went to hear The Lonius several nights at the Village Vanguard. I mean like 20 or 30 nights. I can explain that.”
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“Well, certainly, I think there's a very conservative strain in, let's say, the black community. But they absolutely advocate for change because things have to change in order to make success more accessible.”
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“Well, I think people like Cornell West, I wouldn't necessarily say that they were radical, but they keep having to deal with the failure of any sincere efforts by the people in power in this country to do something meaningful about these problems that we've been talking about. They just tried to, the people who can do something about it just want to serve their communities and just let everyone else suffer. I think people like Cornell, their frustration and anger at that type of hypocrisy and betrayal is really what motivates them.”
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“And just the whole concept of trying to get the best and the brightest, get the best education that we can so that they can do what they want within their power to continue to make America the great place that it is.”
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“Yeah, I did know Mary. I think the difference is I believe in what happened in Europe during what they called the Enlightenment. That needs to happen to black Americans, absolutely a type of enlightenment where they get a grasp of what is afflicting them and what the cures are. I think that the American model is the best in the world. But in order to get everybody involved in it, we have to have it open to everyone. And that hasn't always been the case.”
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“I value all of those things that you just mentioned, all of those scenarios that you just mentioned. I think they're very valuable and they have made America a great place. So we can't throw out the baby with the bathwater. So those ideas and ideals have served this country very well. And I don't think we need to abandon them. We just have to find a way to extend them to all segments of society.”
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“I think it's indifference or the fact that the contempt that they have for the people who are the first victims of it, which are poor people of color, who that's the only economy they can get into They are almost forced into criminal activity because of their lack of education and just the vulnerability that they have being raised, the way that they've been raised.”
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“I still agree with that. But they have to be open to the fact that the solutions that they have put forward haven't worked. I am still anxious to hear from some of the conservatives what the conservative solution is for chronic underemployment and the failure of our educational system. We need a solution to that. Why haven't the conservatives come forward with a solution? They seem to think that they have the answers. What's going on with that”
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“I don't think you can completely decriminalize it, but you have to understand that there is something that we want to rescue from this situation, and that's people's lives. I think people's lives should be given the priority in how to solve this problem, getting people off of these things and understanding that it's very detrimental to their future.”
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“Well, I think the war on drugs was racist. I don't think it's the same now. People are starting to see that drug addiction can affect any and everybody. There was an article in the New York Times last week about how that scourge of heroin addiction has entered the suburbs and majority white communities, they're starting to understand what it's all about and the futility in just using incarceration to try to cure the problem. We have to do a better job at teaching people about their self-worth. And we have to do a better job at giving opportunity to people who, if they don't sell drugs, they can't participate in any economy. The drug selling economy. Is the only one that they can participate in? That's a recipe for failure.”
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“I don't know how we're going to work on the poverty situation unless, again, the educational system is up to speed and can educate people so that they can escape poverty. You can't escape poverty. Given that you only have, you can barely read and write. That's not going to work. You can get a job lifting things, or you can get a job. I have a friend, his son, Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order? But that's what it's coming down to.”
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“I don't know how they're going to survive over the long term because the whole concept of segregated schooling doesn't really work. So we have to really figure out a new template to make it work for everyone. We have to figure out a way in America to make our educational system work for everybody, all groups, all socioeconomic levels need to be able to be included in that and that's not happening right now.”
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“Charter schools are an attempt to stem the flow of that dynamic and I hope that they get something done. The great school I went to in Manhattan is now a charter school. And it was a Catholic school. It's been taken over as a charter school. And that seems to be the trend.”
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“I don't think the soft expectations have benefited minority communities very well. I think we still suffer from that. And 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 for wealthy white people and the public schools that have very poor teachers and very bad facilities. That's for everyone else. We suffer because of that.”
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“Well, I would think that the fact that as a black American, I can 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.”
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“Yes, it could if you can enforce it. The trick is always in enforcement. People pay lip service to an ideal, and then the reality of it ends up being a little bit short, and we're still disappointed.”
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“another round of de facto segregation where people now are living where they want to live but the racial makeup of the neighborhood or the composition of the neighborhood is still quite similar to when segregation was the law and people didn't self-segregate. So I think that's what it's all about.”
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“My opinion on that is the fact that the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act led to other acts that tried as hard as they could to eliminate segregation and housing, the practice of redlining and those types of things where blacks and other minorities were denied access to neighborhoods that had been all white. dealt with that situation changing for a good 30 years or so all of the well I say the majority of the housing patterns that have developed from that is what we used to call de facto segregation people moving to where they want to move and living with the people that they want to live with and maybe and this is just a maybe but I think it's pretty accurate maybe that has caused”
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