Kareem Abdul-Jabbar praises Kaepernick & slams Trump: Hes potus because of his appeal to racism'
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar praises Colin Kaepernick and slams Trump: He’s president ‘because of his appeal to racism’
“Trump’s not going to change,” he said. “He knows he is where he is because of his appeal to racism and xenophobia. The people that want to divide the country are in his camp. They want to go back to the 18th century.”
“Trump wants to move us back to 1952 but he’s not Eisenhower—who was the type of Republican that cared about the whole nation,” Abdul-Jabbar continued, noting “even George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush’s idea of fellow citizens did not exclude people of color.”
Abdul-Jabbar added George W. Bush’s “cabinet looked like America … Even though I did not like his policies, he wasn’t exclusionary.”
Abdul-Jabbar also criticized Trump’s support of accused child molester Roy Moore for Alabama’s Senate seat. “You have a guy like [Moore] but he’s going to vote the way you want politically,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “That’s more important than what he’s accused of? People with that frightening viewpoint are still fighting a civil war. They have to be contained.”
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