Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rips President Trump over DEI policies

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used his speech in commemoration of Jackie Robinson of Los Angeles Dodgers to call President Donald Trump’s policy.

Robinson, as always, was honored on Tuesday 78th anniversary to break the color barrier in MLB -u. He did this with Dodgers, who celebrated the late Robinson involving Great Abdul-Jabbar of Los Angeles Lakers, who grew up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in New York.

Between the storytelling, the story of the fight with New York Giants and Yankees fans as a child, saying that he always made sure that his Dodgers hat was not demolished, Abdul-Jabbar also invited Trump to “get rid of Dei” or diversity, ownership and including programs.

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“I think it’s just a discriminating distinction,” Abdul-Jabbar told the gathered, the way New York Times. “So, I’m glad we do things like this, so that everyone in the country is important. They also tried to get rid of Harriet Tubman. But that didn’t work. It was just upset about that. But you have to consider it when we think about what’s going on today.”

Trump betrayed Executive command last month to abolish the offices, positions and programs of Dei within the Federal Government. Also, among other orders, she terminated grants and contracts.

The White House secured a “A sheet with facts“For the executive order, saying that” the return of the value of individual dignity, hard work and excellence is. “

Yankees remain dedicated diversity and inclusion in the midst of MLB’s peaceful return dei

“President Trump believes that employment in all parts of the government should be based solely on merit,” said the White House.

The executive command, however, led to the purification of many websites that included Dei, which included the Ministry of Defense website that highlighted Robinson’s military service. Abdul-Jabbar also raised Tubman, whose page with the service of the National Park had to be restored, just like Robinson with the Ministry of Defense.

For Robinson, the story entitled “Sports’ heroes served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson was a Second World War soldier,” was demolished briefly before it was renovated. ESPN initially reported that it was demolished, which is why the media ran into the executive order.

Dod published a statement stated that the group was sent to indicate all pages considered to be dei content. They only gave them a week to examine thousands of documents, and a human error has entered the game due to condensed temporal tapes. Mistakes have been made, including marking Robinson’s article.

“In the last few weeks, we have taken measures to identify and archive dei content from our websites and social media platforms,” ​​said Sean Parnell, Assistant Minister of Defense for Public Affairs, in a statement last month.

“No doubt, this task was a hard but incredibly important endeavor. We spent an aggressive weather tape for our DOD services and agencies to comb through a huge range of content, ensuring that our force remained ready and deadly.”

But it was not just federal. The MLB has removed the references to the diversity on the career page in the last month, according to The Times.

Abdul-Jabbar believes Robinson has fought in a baseball and is still dealing with today.

“Jackie had an idea of ​​what we had to deal with,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “We had to deal with segregation. And, in many ways, we still face it. But that is worth it. And that certainly makes people respect us as a country when they see that there are some tensions there, and good people try to do the right thing.”

Dodgeri made fun of some of Trump’s visit to the White House to celebrate their victory in the 2024 World series.

Manager Dave Roberts explained on Tuesday the explanation of a team to go to the White House.

“I personally do not consider him a conversation on both sides of our mouths,” he said. “I understand how people feel that way. But I think supporting our country, remaining together, in harmony, in what I personally believe in. I just believe that things do things in the right way and I think people will have their opinion on what we did last week.

“But I know that we all stand united and we all have different stories and backgrounds and economic, political beliefs. But I was proud that we all stood together.”

Roberts was also full of questions about Robinson, Dei -Ii more, before he faced Colorado Rockies on Tuesday.

“This country needs an awakening call,” Roberts said. “Somehow I touched a little (during memory). This is not a one -day situation. Jackson Robinson Day to violate the color barrier, but this is like a daily way of thinking, respecting.”

Yankei are still dedicated to diversity and involvement despite national dei return programs.

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“We are constantly working with members of our Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and we are actively engaged with our neighbors and partners in the community,” Senior Vice President Yankees told Corporate and Community Brian Smith New York Daily News Jackie Robinson on day.

“Our dedication remains unchanged with these efforts, and our Committee on Diversity and inclusion continues to do its job.”

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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