♪ but i wish it would rain ♪ >> i can remember kareem referring to arthur ashe as arthur ash. he was our tennis hero but that's like o.j. can play football. that conjured up a whole image. internationalism. nice guy. crosses over. >> in the '60s i was much more impressionable. i had some friends who used to try to get me about civil rights issues put them on a shelf or down play their role because the tradeoff would be not doing so well on the tennis court. and if you every in the middle in those days if you're a moderate it's the same thing as being an uncle tom. >> at the time i don't really think that he wanted to be an