Kareem: ‘La La Land’ Is Racist

NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has been active in race-related issues ever since he was in college at UCLA in the 1960’s, has decided that the film La La Land is racist.

Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, As a long-time jazz aficionado, Abdul-Jabbar resents the film for presenting the white jazz musician Sebastian, played by Ryan Gosling, as staying true to traditional jazz while the black character Keith, played by John Legend, sells out as he “corrupted jazz into a diluted pop pablum.”