Ben Meiselas Discusses new Book Project from Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf on Kaepernick Publishing, a company founded by Colin Kaepernick

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this edition of The Mighty, MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas interviews world-renowned basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who first caught the nation’s attention in 1988 as a Louisiana State University freshman sensation. Abdul-Rauf was drafted 3rd overall by the Denver Nuggets and quickly became one of the NBA’s top scorers. Despite topping the leaderboards, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s NBA career came to a sudden halt after he decided he would no longer stand for the national anthem to protest systemic oppression and racism. Abdul-Rauf soon found himself shunned by the league and effectively forced out of the NBA. Abdul-Rauf tells his compelling story in his new autobiography, In the Blink of an Eye, published by Kaepernick Publishing, which is available to order right now. Buy In the Blink of an Eye: An Autobiography by Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf here: https://www.kaepernickpublishing.com/in-the-blink-of-an-eye Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.com Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And welcome to this edition of The Mighty. I'm Ben Myselis from the Midas
0:10.6	Touch podcast and normally we pretty much cover the political issues of the
0:16.0	day but I'm gonna focus a little bit different on this one and many of you may
0:21.2	know that I'm Colin Kaepernick's business partner when I'm not doing Midas
0:25.5	Touch work and one of the endeavors that I'm most proud about that Colin launch
0:30.4	that I'm so happy to be a part of is the launch of Kaepernick publishing a
0:36.3	book publishing company that's done a number of incredible works and I am so
0:41.7	proud to share with you all the newest work that we have coming out on Kaepernick
0:46.9	publishing and author it's an autobiography but this one also has a very special
0:52.8	place in my heart because it's someone who was a childhood hero to me
0:59.7	someone who I grew up with watching who had and has to this day by the way
1:05.4	because if you see him play B ball right now he's taken on some of the youngsters
1:09.6	like no other but someone with some of the greatest basketball skills in the
1:14.0	history but just an incredible person on and off the court an incredible
1:19.6	leader a former player for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA before being black
1:24.6	bald from the NBA which is covered in this story for taking a principal
1:29.0	position a position based on religion engaging in prayer during the
1:33.6	national anthem and people like to think of the NBA as oh it's this
1:38.1	incredibly progressive organization but we can never forget what they did and
1:43.3	what they still have done to Makhmoud Abdul Raouf and so just incredible to
1:47.8	share this autobiography that comes out October 18th the book is called in the
1:54.2	blink of an eye and auto biography written by Makhmoud Abdul Raouf co-authored by
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