Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that the national anthem, is indistinguishable from a “slave song”….the Laker legend said that NFL players are required to stand for the anthem just like pre-Civil War slaves were expected to sing during their work….
The average NFL player makes nearly $3,000,000 annually, amid wild cheering from starry-eyed fans. Perhaps this image reminds Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the horrors of American slavery. He is not only a propagandist, but does an enormous disservice to those who suffered under slavery, and those who still do.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, whose original name was Lew Alcindor, converted to Islam in 1971. He once stated with reference to his conversion:
“One question that bothered me was how so many people could claim to be devout Christians, yet still justify the brutality they committed against black people.”
Yet Islamic doctrine justifies slavery, including sex slavery, and brutality against slaves to boot (see, for example, Abu Dawud 1814; Abu Dawud 4458; and Abu Dawud 2155).
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar should ask himself why groups such as the Islamic State and Boko Haram took sex slaves in recent years, and why black slavery persists in Muslim countries such as Mauritania and Niger. He should also ponder the question of why racism against blacks is rampant and openly tolerated among Arabs.
Unfortunately, Abdul-Jabbar is promoting the hate and victimology that often propels jihad, as well as Leftist racist groups such as Black Lives Matter.
“Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Compares the National Anthem to a Slave Song,” by Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart, August 15, 2018:
Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that the national anthem, is indistinguishable from a “slave song.”
In an August 14 editorial for The Hollywood Reporter, the Laker legend said that NFL players are required to stand for the anthem just like pre-Civil War slaves were expected to sing during their work, Fox News reported.“Currently, the song being demanded is the national anthem during football games. But during a warm-up game on Aug. 10, despite President Trump’s previous condemnation, several Eagles players kneeled during the anthem or raised their fists — their way of singing their own song,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote.
“For them, lyrics like ‘land of the free’ don’t accurately represent the daily reality for people of color,” the Hall of Famer accused. “They love their country but want that country to recognize the suffering that occurs when it isn’t living up to its constitutional promises.”
Abdul-Jabbar also attacked President Donald Trump’s claim that many players don’t understand what the protests are really about…..
StellaSaidSo says
More evidence that Islam was tailor-made for the intellectually challenged.
mortimer says
Islam was tailor-made for BLACK AFRICAN SLAVERY … 120 black Africans KILLED in 1400 years.
Anyone who doesn’t know that is a moron.
mortimer says
Islam produced the biggest slave trade in history. Most of slaves were from Africa.
Muslims still use African slaves when they can escape detection.
he Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen
The Real Hidden Colors Of Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVuQTiQNJOE
Geoffrey Britain says
Re: “120 black Africans KILLED in 1400 years”
120? 120,000? 120,000,000?
KWJ says
Mortimer, I think you meant 120,000,000 black slaves were killed by the Arab slave trade. Also, 6 out of 10 black African boys died due to the castrations. One can see photos of older men who were castrated as boys. Arabs also used young African boys as servants. You can see those photos too; those boy servants are near to naked.
Slavery has been bad in Sudan where mostly women and children are used since they are more easily controlled. Mauritania is significant as well as Libya. These are not terrorist groups doing this. If people point out Boko Harum it makes it seem as if it’s some fringe terrorist thing and it’s not.
A long WPR article, and they are kind of leftish leaning, titled “We Are Not Yet Free: Living In Slavery’s Shadow in Mauritania” mentions that religious clerics (Islamist Muslims) protest the abolition of slavery because “slavery has always been a part of Islam.”
“Yet so far, only three people have been convicted of slavery or slavery-related activities. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Mauritanians still live in some form of slavery, according to abolitionist activists and the Walk Free Foundation’s Global Slavery Index.
Much of it is called “extreme dependence” and they are deprived of education and paid work. There is stratified social heirarchy, the Arab-Berber elites aka the White Moors or Bidhan. They are mostly the slavery owners and they aren’t white like British, but they are considered white as they aren’t “negroid.” The Haratine are the lowest class of citizens and dark skinned.
Blacks in America post slavery and those free black men always have had more opportunities. How a black person can convert to Islam is beyond me given other choices. The racism there is systemic in a bigger way than in the US and we are not obsessed with ethnic classes such as in Pakistan or Africa.
Blacks have the rights I do. White people have sung slave spirituals. If people are going to backtrack to anything or anyone related to slavery, well, you’re going to throw out good stuff as if anyone is perfect. The anthem is in opposition to an enemy and pro-sovereignty, this “the land of the free.” It’s hypocritical of a black Muslim to not mention Muslim slave owners right now or that the so-called Prophet owned slaves and the racism is even worse over there.
The question should be posed to black converts (who Islam actually calls reverts since they think all people were born Muslim and their parents messed up their heads)…why do you believe in and admire a slavery-trading prophet and a Qur’an that clearly allows slavery and sex slavery, no less the sharia clearly states the rules of slavery ownership, The Hadith isn’t even needed because freeing a slavery was part of penance 4:92 5:89 2:177
Sahib Muslim 3901 “Muhammad bought slaves as Jabir reported…
Bukhari “Allah’s Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha…”
Bukhari mentions the names of slaves Muhammad had. So, I don’t get how an American black person would bother converting to Islam. Maybe he’s paid to talk given his fame. Muhammad Ali’s real name Cassius Clay was named after a white abolitionist in America. He apparently missed the low number of blacks in the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, the Arabian peninsula, etc. Very very low in blacks in government positions and some not at all.
mortimer says
120,000,000 black slaves
mortimer says
The historians have estimated that for every one black African successfully delivered to the Arab slave markets, about 9 died from causes related to slavery, such as warfare, abandonment, dying on route, dying from unsuccessful castrations, harsh treatment, disease, malnutrition.
IQ al Rassooli says
mortimer
120,000,000 Africans were slaughtered so that 14,000,000 were sold to the Americas
Most Black Americans and Africans never bothered to study their own history believing the Psychopath of the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan instead
All Blacks who convert to Islam are either ignorant or of low intellect
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Wayne Wells says
120 slaves killed in 1400 years? That’s less than 1 every 11 years. If that is all that died, slavery was a relatively safe occupation. I may be a moron but I have never heard of the 120 figure. Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to accuse others of being morons, although I would agree there is a lot of ignorance out there.
The Istanbulian says
Kareem Abeed Jamal
joscefi says
You don’t get to the NBA by reading books. I think it’s quite special that he has an opinion, on anything!
mortimer says
Every moron has opinions. Opinions that are not FACT-BASED and LOGIC-BASED are not worth having.
The story of the composition of the US anthem is well-known. The author of the American anthem was clearly not thinking of slavery when he wrote the words.
Kareem has no right to invent his own history of the lyrics. He is intellectually dishonest.
Andy says
Opinions are like ASSHOLES, Everyone has one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2_AiQLCb3U
VRWC member77 says
And masquerading monetized leftist trolls with stupid comments are the biggest ones.
Ever been to an “antifa” rally? You and muslim Lou would fit right in.
Andy says
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Is your cock long enough, If it is GO FUCK YOURSELF1 You commie prick!!
Andy says
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I must be hitting a “nerve” with some of those commies.
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Barbara Ellison says
He evidently has not studied about how Arab muslims forced islam onto Africans..It is NOT a “racial” religion of Africa…It’s not even a racial thing at all…Neither he nor Keith Ellison have educated themselves on the subject of islam or they would know how, as Black men, they are considered as natural slaves even NOW by the Arab muslims who use them..islam was every bit as invasive, negative, and bloodthirsty in going into Africa and force-converting those they did not murder as xtianity was in going into what became America, as well as Mexico…
WPM says
The millions of male black African slave castrated by their Arab Moslem overloads would be OK with him over 450 years this practice went on.The killing of Christian black Africans today , the massive rape of black African women today ,the destruction of whole villages in Africa by Islamic terrorist is Ok with him by his silent on this subject as a rich Moslem black American living in America today. While black African Americans are paid millions a season to play a kids game for entertainment of the masses The truly oppressed are players that have to give thanks to a country that gives them the chance to make millions playing a sport that serves no purpose except entertainment.
mortimer says
Agree. Is Kareem not wealthy? Is Kareem not free? Is Kareem not living a life of luxury?
According to Statista, 8% of millionaires in the US are black. That comes to approx. 880,000.
Some slavery.
WPM says
Out of that 880,000 I would guess over 5,000 are current or ex athletes of profession sports teams {baseball ,basketball football ect.} that if they did not live in America ,but live in Africa they would not be in the millionaires club Say what you like about America, the line to get in legally is very long the line to leave is very short. The corruption in Islamic run countries is breath taking ,the history of Islamic treatment of Black Africans in Africa to this day is brutal.
KWJ says
People like him don’t seem to want to talk about any positives even through the struggles. George Washington Carver, who I learned about in 3rd grade, managed to get a loan, managed to get to college and become a professor studying botany. White people did encourage him. Read his bio on Wikipedia. There were paid entertainers, people like Booker T. Washington and others. This was possible even though not initially easy. Scott Joplin became famous with his music, another born in the 1800s. It’s not to dismiss the hardships but as Jabbar has had the ability to make oodles of money, back then there were some blacks who had even harder struggles such as Carver born into a slave family. No such opportunities existed in Africa. Carver lived to 80 years old and ate well.
By focusing on the negative so often, positives seem to get left out. One should point out if people are not upholding the laws that both blacks and whites equally share, and there are many blacks people who are more successful than me, but harping on the past do much and songs of war…geesh. Slavery was universal and hundreds of thousands of white Europeans were taken as slaves too, so it’s not an unknown thing for whites, though not as much of course. Here where I live, I see many black people with jobs from the post office to our black woman mayor, superintendents, state jobs, retail.
Anyway, the song was about war and sovereignty. If Islam ruled here we would all be slaves as Allah and considered lower class. Considering most blacks are Christians (test in peace Aretha Franklin who came out of the gospel church) I see him and his being Islamic is a detriment to black Americans who would not made the money they have in music to football. He is a free person. Take a look at Islamic countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Never jazz, never baseball, movies like ours, mixed gender dancing, etc. Look at what those countries don’t have that we have…and he converted to Islam, the antithesis of freedoms.
Robert Carrillo says
All my respect for this privileged adult-child is gone..
tony46 says
Modern slavery Jabbar, was created by your moslems brothers in Africa and sold to the West.
You come from there.
No Muzzies Here says
He should learn some Arabic slave songs because slavery is practiced today in Arabic Muslim countries. In fact, the Arabic word “abeed” means slave and black.
mortimer says
The so-called ‘slave songs’ were mainly created by the slaves in CODE LANGUAGE referring to ESCAPE to the PROMISED LAND or CANAAN LAND (Canada where slavery was illegal) and CROSSING THE RIVER (i.e. the Niagara River or Detroit River).
Kareem knows NOTHING about the subject matter of songs like
“… gonna lay down my BURDEN (of slavery) down by the RIVERSIDE (the Niagara River).”
LEARN something Kareem… use your gray cells.
StellaSaidSo says
Kareem is using his grey cells, Mortimer – stretching the few that he has to their limit!
And you are right about the ‘slave songs’. The slaves were not forced to sing, but did so as an expression of solidarity, faith, and shared suffering – and to accompany the rhythm of the task at hand. Kareem is extraordinarily ignorant. If he were any smarter he never would have converted to Islam and become a slave to ‘Allah’.
Logic&Reason says
I guess that means the fake news outlets will be fawning over Kareem this week. Just the latest in the never-ending line of leftist Trump-bashing ignoramuses.
Trump’s closing in on The Swamp–in which the MSM has been 100% complicit–so they’re pulling out all the stops before the mid-terms. Nothing has to be true or make sense as long as it fuels Trump hatred.
Crazy times.
tony46 says
Modern slavery Jabbar, was created by your moslems brothers in Africa and sold to the West.
You come from there.
Abdul means Slave and means Negro…..ask your brothers
Daniel Moshe Johnson says
Shalom Aleichem
The issues presented to us today are reflections of the past that most are not familiar with, only a few.
The presence of malevolent behavior has only been corned by a few, and those bodies are not directly involved in government, and they don’t stamp freewill demands on the public, this world resemble Sharia in a moderate sense, if there is such a thing.
Kareem Jabbar, and if you are reading these comments Kareem, how are you, enjoyed watching you play as a kid growing up in New Orleans, however, I disagree with your opinion, which is a free will right within the fold of democratic sovereignty and freedoms.
But, these freedoms, much like the constitutional rights must be guarded, guarded how?
This is where problems occur………..
If one is not ever briefed in life on “the hedge” that the creator said, we must put around the law, then one will not move wisely in dealings of material and spirituality in carnal.
For the carnality of the material world has flaws, many are due to the history of man’s creation, downfall and struggle for knowledge. And, we live in a world, where material and true purpose battle in full sight view.
The planet floats in space on an invisible axis, no one ever seeing this visibly nor up close, but scientist and physicist insist that this is a reality, the same with laws and governance, among a species that not too long ago, was primitive in original nature,at least from what we know of early man.
Logic and truth are both to be weighed, and in democracies, these must be not taken for granted, when democracies like any other challenge in life, is often a process leading towards perfection, like Kareems hooh-shot.
I ask Kareem, if he can come up with an opinion that attacks an image subject that represents a foundation, be it built on flawed values and slogans, it still stands as the national slogan or mantra that allows for the independence and the occupation we have presently as free thinkers and achievers upon that foundation, or as the old testament bible says “we must return to the old landmark”
And what is the landmark?????
Landmarks and monuments are important in remembrance, as the world changed around these things and we evolve, the landmark does not challenge the change, for it loans the foundation upon which the evolution or change has taken place.
Pigments distinctions in this universe is the last thing I expect for free thinkers to still be expressing, and this article shows, that material gain does not force critical analogies nor does it stamps wisdom upon the receiver automatically!
And this brings me closer to my point, the Koran can not bring one to Chokmat-wisdom, because it is a book not formulated enough nor has the depth enough to express or identify with the “yesod”- foundation. The foundation or landmark is given only to those qualified by secret and sacred ordinances and thus decreed by the “watchers”……
If I have lost you here, this mean’s you have some research to do, for when we relate from emotions and anger, then we really can’t add to any subject or subject…….
KINGZOFKINGZS@yahoo.com
somehistory says
Those guys “raising their fists” are not being forced to play ball….and get huge amounts of money for playing. They have signed on to play and can leave anytime their contract…they willingly sign…is up.
It’s common knowledge…to the thinking person…that if one gathers a large group of people. it is possible, and almost always happens, for group think to direct the members of the group. On many occasions, the members agreeing with the group don’t have a clue about the issues involved.
One player gets huge amounts of media attention and some public support and soon….hundreds of other players jump on, but not having a clue about what way is up.
jabbar….is not that intelligent…demonstrated by his conversion to the cult of death that hates his “color.”
John says
What a Brain Dead, this Dill has Voluntarily joined the Slave Traders who enslaved , Beat , tortured and murdered his Ancestors and shipped them all around the World. His ancestors will Send Him to HELL to meet up with muhammad,(MHCBIH)May He Continually Burn In Hell.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
It is closer to mithraist christian worship of singing, dancing and clapping for the satan they call Holy Spirit. mithraist christians want force muslims to practice their religion at all length, by hook or crook. In former colonised Muslim nations military uniforms, lawyer’s attires, hospitals, still use mithraist christian symbols of paganism like cross.
Porky The Crusader says
Do you work in a Circus??? Because you are a funny Crackpot!
pemba says
FOOL
MFritz says
This POS got rich and famous thanks to the “slave holder” nation US and its national anthem (pretty much like the National Felon League these days). Move to Africa (and stay there) and see how much your career is actually “worth” there.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
mFritz, you mean you are going erase blacks from evil United States as your ancestors white mithraist christians did to the original inhabitants of Americas ?That is why white police shoot blacks at sight and when ťhe shooters are prosecuted the same white mithraist Christian judges discharged them ignoring overwelming evidence?
WPM says
Most over 99 percent of black Americans shot in America are shot by other blacks or Hispanics that are not members of any” law enforcement ” agency. You do not have to be a “mithraist Christian” to be a judge or be on a jury in America, Can a Christian be a Judge in an Islamic majority country?? If local law enforcement in America shot black Americans on sight there be thousands killed everyday.
FYI says
Does the muslim not know his “prophet” muhammed was a seller of…Black People..into slavery?
Sahih Muslim 3901
“And he bought him{another slave} for TWO BLACK SLAVES”
Two for the price of one!And every time muslims praise muhammed,they are praising a mass-murdering{Abu dawud 4390} seller of black people into slavery{sahih muslin 3901}.
Amazing,simply amazing that African-American muslims don’t see the problem with that fact!!
How must that work for the likes of abdul-Jabbar?The cognitive dissonance required to deny that appaling fact must be enormous.
We know islamic apologists are masters of bearing false witness and denying the truth but they cannot deny their own islamic teachings.
Sahih Muslim 3901 muhammed the man who sold black people int slavery.
11B40 says
Greetings;
I grew up in the Bronx of the ’50s and ’60s and basketball was my preferred way to misspend my youth, so I was familiar with KAJ even under his former, I guess, “slave” name. While he was a really great basketball player, he was also known as a pretty beat personality, a kind of whiny type, more likely to hit you from behind than face-off in front of you. In fact, one of my favorite NBA memories was watching Dennis Autry of the Chicago Bulls chase him the length of the court while KAJ seemed only to be looking for an exit.
CogitoErgoSum says
Perhaps we should have a new U.S. national holiday where anyone who has a grievance against the United States for what was done to their ancestors in the past can take the day off. White people would still have to work, of course, but those calling themselves “a person of color” could stay at home, relax and enjoy the day cursing American and burning the flag. That would do wonders for uniting our country, don’t you think? Some of the folks in Canada think it’s a great idea for their country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhzrDzTcVLs
Wellington says
What makes it all the worse is that this turkey, originally Lew Alcindor by name, was a history major at UCLA. You’d think just an elementary study of the Islamic past would lead any black to distance himself from Islam. Just about the last people on the planet who should be Muslim are blacks, with black women doubly foolish when considering Islam’s extensive misogyny.
CogitoErgoSum says
He’s been out of school for a while and missed some recent history. Professor Obama taught us that if you think you built yourself into a success in America, you need to think again. You didn’t build that. If you became a millionaire playing basketball, somebody else made that happen. Somebody invented the game. Somebody invested in creating teams and leagues and building stadiums and cars and roads making it possible for people to buy tickets and come watch you and cheer you on while you are having fun playing basketball on a team that is composed of mostly black players being paid big money but who are free to complain how badly their ancestors were treated and how bad America still is and how its flag and national anthem constantly remind them of all the crap from the past ….. crap that someone, somehow pulled them from and helped built them into what they are today. Nope, he didn’t get to where he is on his own. Somebody else made it possible for him and helped him. But ……. who was it?
Marshall Lanier says
Slavery my ass.
Kareem is a has-been that hasn’t been heard from in quite a few years and now he wants his 15 minutes of fame to get his name back in the news.
What other country would allow people of ANY color to become multi-millionaires by playing a game?
I he wants to bitch about slavery and injustice, maybe he should take off his tailor made suit, park his expensive sports car, and try to make it on a 40 hour/week paycheck, or better yet, put himself in the boots of an American Marine, Sailor, Soldier, or Airman who has fought to protect his right to utter such idiotic bullshit.
utis says
Please search “1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre” on your favorite search engine. Wikipedia has article (at least when I just referred to it). Jabbar remained a muslim after this, although any thoughtful person would have had his faith badly shaken if not crumbled to dust.
When his name is mentioned, I still recall the incident, although my memory recalls only one child drowned in a bathtub, not four. Just one child being treated by adults that way over stinking ideology was seared into my mind.
Garfield says
he’s another brainwashed moron who needs to research BLACK on BLACK crime.
Converts get that blank stupid evil look on their faces. What do you expect, though, from people who decide to join a DEATH CU LT?
vlparker says
So, a man who belongs to the party of slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK, and belongs to the religion of slavery thinks a song that was written about the bombing of Fort McHenry by the British during the War of 1812 is comparable to a slave song. We’re not dealing with a genius here.
Jack Cade says
He’s 7’2″ which is IQ. Combine that with complete ignorance and this silliness is predictable.
Jack Cade says
…which is his IQ… Why is there no provision to edit the posts?
Indiana Tom says
The whitest prophet with black raisin head slaves.
This NBA player is a real Uncle Tom.
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Indiana Tom says
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Niemoller says
He’d probably think differently if his too tall ass was rounded up as a youth when he was Lew Alcindor by some jihadists, castrated and sold into Islamic slavery, as Islamists did up until just a few decades ago, and is very likely still happening in remote parts of Dar al Islam.
Nothing more disgusting and evil than a rich traitor to humanity. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just made himself one.
Schrödinger says
Taqiyya on stilts.
No nation has done as much as the United State to acknowledge and atone for the mistakes it has made in its past. And the scale of this individual’s bigotry and hypocrisy, knowing full well, as he does, that slavery is sanctioned and in full accord with the Sunnah and Sharia of his so called religion of peace, that it is a system of grotesque religious and gender apartheid, far worse and more universal in its scope than anything under Jim Crow or the former system in South Africa fills one with disgust.
Let’s see him lend his towering presence to a discussion and condemnation of not just Dhimmitude but everything Islamic.
Crusades Were Right says
Anyone got the feeling that the ONLY thing that will satisfy the haters of the white race will be the utter destruction of Western Civilization, the outlawing of Christianity and the enslavement of white people?
James P.Breslin says
He should return all the slave money he received from the slave games he played to entertain his slave masters and stop speaking the slave-language he received from his slave owners at that he received from the salve schools he attended and stop using the his Muslim slave name because that slave-religion endorses slavery and sold his ancestors into slavery at slave auctions into Africa to which he is cheerfully encouraged to return. I will gladly pay for his one way flight from this slave nation.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
cortez, you lied,Prophet Muhammad was never a homosexual. But your satan god you call Holy Spirit used to have anus sex with you while you are busy fucking your horrible bad smelly lady.Don’t you feel it?
James Lincoln says
I guess that Lew Alcindor considered himself to be a “slave” to the NBA.
Rev. G says
Interesting that Kareem didn’t notice any of this when he was making big dollars and standing for the anthem in his heyday.
Guy Forester says
I arrived late for this game, but here it goes:
1. Unless I missed something, no one has pointed out that one of the reasons for the BOYS being castrated is to keep them as sex slaves.
2.Those unsuccessful castrations usually included penectomy by rather brutal means. These males were used as sex slaves
3. This wealthy dolt would not know hard work or slave conditions if they bit him on the nose.
4. These predominately black or otherwise not white “sports stars” make more money in one year than most people make in a lifetime. It would take 60 years at $50,000/yr to make $3M.