In the islamic world, if nosser didn't like you, you were going to jail. In america, wev figured it out by separating church and state. I think that has to do with the distribution of wealth. The people who are in charge of the state want to keep hold of the wealth. They don't necessarily care about the morality of the laws. They just want to keep control of the money. And this isn't a real, a democratic distribution of wealth,. There isn't areal equality of opportunitya the way they ta a segregation problemright? You've written that when you were young, you used to visit the cloisters in new york
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on segregation, Islam, Harlem vs. LA, Earl Manigault, jazz, fighting Bruce Lee, Kareem’s conservatism, dancing with Thelonious Monk, and why no one today can shoot a skyhook.
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