Abdul-Jabbar: Recent Supreme Court Decisions Have ‘Backslided’ Racial Equality

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on PBS: Supreme Court Has Moved Race Relations 'Backwards' (NewsBusters)

On the December 30 edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show former NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar decried the state of America’s race relations as he claimed the country was “back sliding” in that area due to recent “Supreme Court decisions” and all the efforts to “suppress minority voters.”

Invited on to promote his new children’s book “Sasquatch in the Paint,” the former Los Angeles Laker center sounded like your typical liberal MSNBC host when asked by Rose for his take on how America was doing on the “racial front.”