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00:00 I'm Jill Painter Lopez for Sports Illustrated, joined by Melissa Roland.
00:10 And Melissa, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, always very active in matters of social justice and certainly
00:16 has been even more so in the wake of George Floyd's death with some very important words.
00:22 What has stuck out to you about what he's been saying?
00:24 He wrote an extremely articulate, extremely well-reasoned, well-thought-out op-ed in the
00:30 LA Times in which he discussed why this has been so hard-hitting and so important and
00:34 so poignant and so upsetting for black people around the nation.
00:39 It's a must read.
00:41 He talked about how a lot of these things hit white people and black people differently.
00:45 And it's just something that everybody should take a look at.
00:49 He also had an interview with ESPN in which he was asked, what are some concrete things
00:54 that people can do right now to affect change?
00:57 And he said, one thing people can do right now is make friends with somebody who's black,
01:02 try to learn about somebody else's life and what they've seen.
01:07 And maybe these struggles will then become more important to everybody across the nation.
01:12 I thought that that was an extremely important thing to point out because a lot of people
01:17 live in their own echo chambers.
01:19 And the more we can understand and relate to and empathize with other people's plights,
01:25 the more we can move forward and affect real change as a nation.