By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the most active former athletes in politics, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where he took a jab at Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“Hello everyone. I’m Michael Jordan, and I’m here with Hillary,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “I said that because I know that Donald Trump couldn’t tell the difference”.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton appointed Abdul-Jabbar as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador in 2012, however it’s a time of change in the States. Michael Jordan who was mentioned by Jabbar, four days ago for the first time took an active political stance. As he wrote in the Undefeated: “As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of violence, and a black man, I have been deeply troubled by the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement and angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers”.
Athletes are not always role models, nor there should be obliged to be, but the greatest of them can play this role with extreme efficiency.