Abdul-Jabbar continued:
“The irony is that the moral values that determined King’s crusade were rooted in his devotion to Christianity, not communism.
Yet, it was mostly Christians who rejected their own supposed beliefs because they were espoused by a black man who literally embodied Jesus’s teaching of turn-the-other-cheek.
History has taught us over and over that religious values are quickly abandoned when they conflict with economics or traditional social norms.”