The Major Problem With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Powerful Essay on Ferguson
September 1, 2014
There is so much good in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s
Time magazine essay about the protests following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, that it almost feels churlish to raise any kind of criticism. After all, here is a basketball legend, the all-time leading scorer in NBA history, the master of the skyhook, marshaling his platform to speak about poverty and class in the United States. Kareem even references the new book
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, by radical journalist Laurie Penny.