When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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