Hoops star works
for racial harmony

A.C. Green, the longtime NBA basketball player who raised eyebrows as a single professional athlete due to his vow of chastity, is using a new film he produced to promote racial reconciliation.

Green, an outspoken Christian, has released "Final Solution," the story of a South African man's transformation from violent racist to repentant healer, Assist News Service reported.

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According to the report, the movie already has aired on 45 PBS stations in the U.S.

A.C. Green (photo: acgreen.com)

"'Final Solution' is based on the story of a white Afrikaner gentleman from South Africa called Gerrit Wolfaardt," Green told ANS. "His hero and mentor was Adolf Hitler, and he believed that the way to bring South Africa back to its truest natural form was to adapt the Hitler mentality of the 'final solution.' His final solution was the genocide of the black man and of the black race itself. So he and his comrades developed militia groups that terrorized townships and villages, basically trying to destroy everything in sight."

Continued Green, "This went on over a short period of time, and what happened was this gentleman wound up experiencing a Saul-to-Paul transformation. Once this transformation took place in his heart, he went back to those same townships and villages asking the people there for forgiveness. He not only wanted forgiveness, but he had a passion to try and reconcile himself with those he had wronged. … [The residents of] those communities weren't really the most welcoming committees when they saw him coming.

"He now has a ministry and a vision and passion. … He and his wife – they live in Colorado Springs – travel around the country speaking on racial reconciliation and the power of forgiveness."

Green explained to ANS the film was shot in South Africa, but that he was unable to be there for the filming because he was busy playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals in 2000.

"Although it is based in South Africa, it has a strong message for America," he told the news service, "which is about the power of forgiveness and the need to reconcile with those that we have wronged."

Green travels the nation showing the film and speaking about racial reconciliation.

Said Green: "This message is strongly needed in America still, and I have found in my travels throughout the states, inside of churches, we have denominational racism that goes on, and we have churches not wanting to fellowship with other churches because of whatever difference they find. Outside of the church world, we still have those who still want to live in a generation past and are not willing to look past the differences between us. We definitely have to keep this message to the forefront."

According to the film's website, Green was scheduled to attend Promise Keepers men's rallies in September and October to talk about the project. The former NBA star holds the record for the most consecutive games played at 1,192. Green, who turns 40 today, married Veronique Green last year.