Jordan says he was racist in new book

Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan says in a new book that he considered himself a racist growing up.

In a new book entitled Michael Jordan: The Life, by author Roland Lazenby, the five-time National Basketball Association most valuable player and current owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, says that as a teenager he was "against all white people".

Excerpts of the book published on Wednesday by the New York Post include Jordan describing how growing up in North Carolina during the 1970s, where he said the Klu Klux Klan thrived, helped shaped his views on racism. In one instance, Jordan recalls a schoolgirl calling him the n-word.