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"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written a scathing critique of Lena Dunham&amp;#039;s HBO series Girls. The NBA legend penned a Huffington Post opinion piece in which he panned the choice of Donald Glover as a love interest for Dunham&amp;#039;s Girls character.   [Left: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Right: The cast of &amp;#039;Girls&amp;#039;] &amp;quot;A black dildo would have sufficed and cost less,&amp;quot; Abdul-Jabbar said of Glover&amp;#039;s casting as Sandy on Girls. He continued: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t believe that people of color, sexual preference, or gender need to be shaken indiscriminately into every series like some sort of exotic seasoning.  &amp;quot;If the story calls for a black character, great... But this really seemed like an effort was made to add some color - and it came across as forced.&amp;quot;  Abdul-Jabbar went on to write that he knows that Dunham&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;heart and mind are in the right place&amp;quot;, but admitted that he can&amp;#039;t get past perceived vapid attitudes on the series. &amp;quot;[The] intense self-involvement is meant to be cute and it can be...at times,&amp;quot; he wrote. &amp;quot;But not enough to overcome our impatience with their inability to have any personal insight.  &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re all educated, but fatally ignorant.&amp;quot; Dunham has not yet responded to Abdul-Jabbar&amp;#039;s critique on her Twitter page. Girls won two awards including the &amp;#039;Best Television Series (Comedy)&amp;#039; prize at last month&amp;#039;s Golden Globes. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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