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“I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Teacher

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Sports

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

Dad

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Movies