The racial politics of Wilt Chamberlain, which damaged his reputation as a collegiate basketball player, are covered in this chapter. The black community in the United States was filled with hope when Chamberlain enrolled at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. They expected him to demonstrate to the university that racial segregation is immoral and unethical and to prove through his basketball prowess that black people are not less than white people. It mentions how he was perceived as a money-grabbing opportunist in his own institution after deciding to quit the university to join the Harlem Globetrotters.
In addition, Chamberlain’s impartiality about the civil rights movement caused him to lose the respect and allegiance of his fellow African Americans, who were upset with him for his lack of involvement in the struggle.
