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Kareem
cont’d from pg 7
an assistant coach for
two others, won a record
six MVP awards
and
is the leading scorer in
NBA history with 38,387
points, a mark that’s nev-
er been seriously chal-
lenged in the 29 years
since he retired.
He’s written more than
a dozen books ranging
from children’s adven-
ture novels to histories
of
prominent
Afri-
can-Americans to crime
novels featuring the ad-
ventures of none other
than Mycroft Holmes,
older brother of Sher-
lock.
“I enjoyed Sherlock
Holmes from when I was
a kid,” he recalls, adding
with a robust laugh that
until high school he actu-
ally believed the master
detective was a real per-
son. Learning he was Ar-
thur Conan Doyle’s cre-
ation, he concluded the
author gave short shrift
to Mycroft and set out to
fix that a few years ago.
Comey cont’d from pg 9
ferent people,” he said.
He wrote a series of ar-
ticles on the experiences
of Black students and
faculty as a campus jour-
nalist.
“All of that came to-
gether and I decided,
‘You know what, I think
I’d be better in seeking
justice as a lawyer,’ be-
cause that’s where jus-
tice is found,” he said.
As Comey and Han-
ford spoke, protestors
demonstrated and chant-
ed outside the universi-
ty’s historical Founders
Library. The protestors
were members of HU Re-
sist, a Howard student
collation organized to
change the campus and
the surrounding commu-
nity.
According to HU Resist
member Alexis McK-
inney, the organization
opposes Comey because
“he is responsible for the
people like Rakem Balo-
gun, formerly known as
Christopher Daniels, be-
ing targeted and perse-
cuted for ‘Black identity
extremism.’”
Balogun of Dallas was
under surveillance by
the FBI for two years
before they raided his
home and arrested him
in December 2017. Items
taken from his home
included a .38 caliber
handgun, an assault rifle
and the book, Negroes
With Guns by Robert F.
Williams. Balogun was
indicted on unlawful
possession of a firearm.
The organization pro-
tested Comey’s speech
last September during
the university’s annual
Convocation ceremony
marking the start of a
new academic year.
“We thought it import-
ant to continue our resis-
tance to Comey, despite
the ambivalence of our
classmates,” McKinney
said, “because at the end
of the day, he’s a sym-
bol of institutionalized
white supremacy and
state oppression.”
Hansford challenged
Comey in the discussion
and dismissed his asser-
tions that many prob-
lems between police and
African Americans are
caused by a few “bad ap-
ples.”
“It’s not a question of
bad apples,” Hanford re-
sponded. “It’s a question
of bad systems.”
“The FBI has a very
challenging history with
the black community,” he
added, referring to the
many years the FBI under
director J. Edgar Hoover,
spied on, hounded Af-
rican American lead-
ers and organizations
beginning with Marcus
Garvey in the 1920s, the
Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., the NAACP, Malcolm
X and the Nation of Islam
in the 1950s and 60s and
the Black Panthers in the
1970s.
Comey said he tried to
address the FBI’s histo-
ry of misdeeds regard-
ing African Americans
while director. He said
he wanted agents and
analysts to study the
organization’s history
of misconduct, includ-
ing programs such as
Cointelpro, a counterin-
telligence program used
heavily in the 1960s to
surveil civil and human
rights organizations.
“I tried to make the
FBI stare at that history,”
he said. “I’m a believer
that transparency is to
include. I commissioned
a course at Quantico,
where every new agent
and analyst of the FBI
studies the history of the
FBI, with special empha-
sis on the FBI’s interac-
tion with Dr. King, and
you know that horrific
history.”
He further explained
that at the end of the
course, all the trainees
go to the King memori-
al in the nation’s capital
where they are assigned
a final project. They must
pick something Dr. King
said on those two stones
and write an essay about
how the quote inter-
twines with the FBI’s val-
ues.
Even with those pro-
grams, Comey said, his
efforts were “probably
not enough” to bridge
the divide and mistrust
between African Ameri-
cans and the FBI.
His second Holmes book
came out last year, and
he’s working on another.
“That and this tour will
hopefully keep me pretty
busy,” he said as he sat in
a chair in his spacious of-
fice.
It’s an office filled with
memorabilia commem-
orating not only his
basketball career but
his
African-American
roots and his work as a
civil-rights advocate. Sit-
ting near NAACP Image
Awards are dozens of
basketballs, many auto-
graphed by members of
the Showtime-era Los
Angeles Lakers teams
he helped lead to five
championships in the
1980s.
On the walls are
posters of him launch-
ing his signature sky-
hook shot over the
likes of Charles Bark-
ley and guarding Bill
Walton.
The
sounds
of
jazz,
the
beloved
soundtrack of Ab-
dul-Jabbar’s life, play
softly through the of-
fice until he silences
them to talk.
(His father, Ferdi-
nand Lewis Alcindor,
whose name he shared
before changing his in
his early 20s upon his
conversion to Islam, was
not only a New York City
police officer but a tal-
ented jazz musician.)
If not as shy as he once
was, Abdul-Jabbar is still
somewhat guarded in
conversation, although
he can be playfully fun-
ny as well.
Yes, he confirms with
a grin, it’s true that after
President Donald Trump
sent him a name-call-
ing note for criticizing
Trump, he crumpled it
into a ball and skyhooked
it into a wastebasket.
Although he suffered
from leukemia that’s
now in remission and
underwent quadruple
bypass surgery three
years ago, Abdul-Jabbar
looks little different than
he did during his playing
days, appearing trim and
athletic in Tommy Hil-
figer jeans and an open-
necked shirt.
“Well, you know, see-
ing how there is no al-
ternative — I’ll take it,”
he says of turning 70 last
year.
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