NBA legend Abdul-Jabbar: 'More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism'
On the set of ABC’s This Week with host George Stephanopoulos, the retired six-time NBA champ said racism remains part of American culture.
"This is a problem. I did a little bit of research. More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism," he said. "That’s why we have shows like Ghostbusters and don’t have shows like ‘Racistbusters.’ "
We set out to find whether his catchy comment comparing white attitudes on ghosts and racism is accurate. We tried to contact Abdul-Jabbar through Twitter and ABC’s media team but could not reach him by our deadline.
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A Harris Poll of 2,250 people surveyed online in November 2013 found that 42 percent of all Americans, and 42 percent of whites, said they believe in ghosts. The overall average was down from 51 percent of all adults who said they believed in ghosts in a 2003 Harris Poll. That 11-year-old survey, which included response rates by race, showed 51 percent of whites as saying they believe in ghosts, compared with 43 percent of blacks and 59 percent of Hispanics.
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When asked if new civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against blacks, 53 percent of blacks said yes compared with 17 percent of whites. When asked if the justice system is biased or not, 68 percent of blacks and 25 percent of whites said yes, "a huge racial gulf there," Newport says.
In yet another interesting Gallup question, 15 percent of whites said the fact that blacks have on average worse jobs, income and housing than whites was mostly due to discrimination, with 83 percent saying the cause was something else.
People keep saying "racism is dead", it "doesn't exist anymore", etc. This just goes to show it's not. Leave it to the majority to try to discredit the minority about the woes of being a minority.
Im white and this is true i roll my eyes everytime I hear white people (they are the only ones ive heard claim this) say that they hear/talk to ghosts and that they are a quarter Native American.
People keep saying "racism is dead", it "doesn't exist anymore", etc. This just goes to show it's not. Leave it to the majority to try to discredit the minority about the woes of being a minority. 
