Long before Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest of police brutality, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar boycotted the 1968 Olympic Games to protest injustice against Black Americans. He says the issues they were fighting against are “basically the same.'
Since Kareem Abdul-Jabba boycotted the Summer Olympics in 1968, he's been vocal in highlighting the racial injustices in the U.S.
The six-time NBA champion boycotted the 1968 Olympic Games by refusing to try out for the U.S. men’s basketball team in order to protest injustice against Black Americans. In response to the demands from widespread protests, federal and local governments across the country are in the midst of conversations regardingAbdul-Jabbar is no stranger to law enforcement: Growing up, his father was a police officer in New York, and before that, his grandfather was a police officer in Trinidad.
“My dad made a whole lot of the Black Americans in our neighborhood proud because he conducted himself in a very upright way,” he says. “And my dad was decorated twice and retired as a lieutenant. I always had a lot of respect for my dad.”
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