Black athletes from Muhammad Ali to Michael Jordan have
transformed their sports. But has our society's fixation on
black athletes hurt other African-Americans? Next time on To the
Best of Our Knowledge, sports and race in America. Also,
basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar talks about his heroes.
John Hoberman teaches languages at the University of Texas. He
talks with Judith Strasser about his book "Darwin's Athletes:
How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of
Race." Also, Chet Walker , formerly an all-star player in the
NBA and now a Hollywood TV and movie producer, tells Steve
Paulson that he was used as a Black athlete by his mostly white
college, but acknowledges that sports gave him many
opportunities he would not otherwise have had. Walker's memoir
is "Long Time Coming: A Black Athlete's Coming-of- Age in
America."SEGMENT 2: Basketball fan and poet Dennis Trudell has
compiled an anthology of basketball-inspired poems and short
stories. He reads some samples and talks about them wit