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00:00Harvard University, and we've mentioned, we've alluded to the fact that it's commencement season right across the United States, holding its 374th commencement today.
00:09That's this Thursday. And yesterday we had the NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar giving a class day speech there.
00:19And I just want to read you a piece from what he said. He said,
00:22When a tyrannical administration tries to bully and threaten Harvard to revoke their academic freedom and to destroy freedom of speech,
00:32he said that Dr. Alan Jarba, that's the head of Harvard, had rejected the illegal and immoral pressures.
00:39And he called out the institutions in America that have conceded to this administration,
00:44calling the administration one that had systematically strip-mined the U.S. Constitution.
00:49Are those words you ever thought you'd hear in America? And how do you react to them?
00:56I never thought I would hear them, Tom. And what I would ask Mr. Jabbar, who is a great basketball player,
01:02is if a group of black students were spit on and assaulted and harassed day and night by a group of white students,
01:13what would you want Harvard to do then? How would you react to that?
01:17If it was a group of LGBTQ plus students who were being harassed day and night, like these Jewish students,
01:25some of them are afraid to even leave their dorm rooms. How would you react to that?
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