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"I have a degree from UCLA. I’m an amateur historian who has written books about World War II, the..."

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“I have a degree from UCLA. I’m an amateur historian who has written books about World War II, the Harlem Renaissance, and African-American inventors. I read a lot of fiction as well as non-fiction. I watch TV and movies. I have acted in both. I have been a political activist and an advocate for children’s education. How should an aging, black jock like myself know anything about pop culture? Man, I am a living part of pop culture and have been for nearly 50 years. Beyond that, I think pop culture expresses our needs, fears, hopes and whole zeitgeist better than some of the more esoteric and obscure forms of art.”

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responds to the response to his response to ‘Girls’ | Huff Post Ent (via popculturebrain)

Some questioned why a man my age would watch a show about girls in their twenties, as if they’d just discovered me hanging around a school playground with a shopping bag full of candy in one hand a fluffy puppy in the other. Of course, these critics are right. When I read Moby Dick I first had to convince the bookseller that I was a former whaler named Queequeg. When I read the poetry of Sylvia Plath, I had to pretend I was a depressed white woman with daddy issues. Don’t worry, I used a fake ID.”

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I was just waiting for Kareem to “have to” justify why he was possibly qualified to write about “Girls.” Thanks for not disappointing, white America.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA hall of famer, renaissance man, public intellectual.

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IT IS OFFICIAL WE ARE NOW IMAGINARY FRIENDS PLEASE TAKE A SEAT NEXT TO DORIS KEARNS-GOODWIN AND TRY THIS DIP I MADE.

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