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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Cassius Clay is dying?

No comment.


3 posted on 06/03/2016 7:05:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The irony is he was named after a great abolitionist, Cassius Marcellus Clay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Marcellus_Clay_(politician) ) and changed it honor a Turkish ruler who owned thousands of African slaves (who were routinely castrated to prevent them from breeding).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt


69 posted on 06/03/2016 8:26:49 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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