She's a frizzy haired liberal so she thinks she's allowed to drop N-bombs in her headlines.
Posted on 06/06/2016 10:11:31 AM PDT by No One Special
CASSIUS CLAY, born in 1942, was the grandson of a slave; in the United States of his boyhood and young manhood, the role of the black athlete, particularly the black boxer, was a forced self-effacement.
White male anxieties were, evidently, greatly roiled by the spectacle of the strong black man, and had to be assuaged. The greater the black boxer (Joe Louis, Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles), the more urgent that he assume a public role of caution and restraint. Kindly white men who advised their black charges to be a “credit to their race” were not speaking ironically.
And yet, the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali refused to play this emasculating role. He would not be the “white man’s Negro” — he would not be anything of the white man’s at all. Converting to the Nation of Islam at the age of 22, immediately after winning the heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston, he denounced his “slave name” (Cassius Marcellus Clay, which was also his father’s name) and the Christian religion; in refusing to serve in the Army he made his political reasons clear: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong.”
An enormous backlash followed: where the young boxer had been cheered, now he was booed. Denunciations rained upon his head. Respected publications, including The New York Times, continued to print the “slave name” Cassius Clay for years. Sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for his refusal to comply with the draft, Ali stood his ground; he did not serve time, but was fined $10,000 and his boxing license was revoked so that he could not continue his professional career, in the very prime of that career. In a gesture of sheer pettiness the State Department took away his passport so that he couldn’t fight outside the country. After he...
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Boring.
He was a pretty good fighter, but they’ve played this song too much. I’m tired of it.
New York Slimes. All racist, all the time.
Ohhhh, I remember her. The old white woman with the ridiculous glasses, right?
. . . who knew absolutely nothing about boxing.
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What I have learned from Liberals: When you judge a man, judge him by the color of the skin he was born with; nothing else really matters.
Maybe a white man had to go to Vietnam in his place? I wonder if that same man came home?
I am white and I always liked him. Why racially agitate now? Never pass up an opportunity, I guess.
And we’ve still got the funeral to go through.
I remember how long the mourning for JFK stretched out.
It went on for weeks until even those of us in the military were sick of it.
Cassius Clay ain’t no JFK, and how I wish he’d go away.
He supported Ronald Reagan.
Stupid bastard was a draft-dodger and a liar. ‘nuff said.
Which is how Ali outrageously and unfairly tarred both Joe Frazier and, to a lesser extent, George Foreman. Ali's behavior to Frazier was disgraceful, calling him an Uncle Tom and then reversing course and saying he was an "ugly gorilla" type of black man. And all just for publicity. Its even worse because Frazier tried to help Ali when he was suspended. Ali was a great boxer. But he did some horrible things to his fellow black boxers.
because clay was a racist of the highest order....why not bring that up?
She's a frizzy haired liberal so she thinks she's allowed to drop N-bombs in her headlines.
He could have been a great leader of all men but he really turned out to be a whimpy yellow-bellied coward. I was there when he dodged the draft while the rest of us went with the troops and took the bullet, no matter what. All of us here treated him with disdain from that time inward.
Pfft! No way in hell will I watch anything now to do with Cassius Clay.
That draft shouldn't have survived a day into 46'
Looks like my left one after surfing
A war started by the Rats, who had no intention of winning.
RIP Ali....
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