Cassius Clay (aka Mohammed Ali) was a vile, repugnant racist thug.
He was a member of the Nation of Islam, back in it was run by an even loonier nut than Farrakhan. He was a draft-dodging anti-American piece of crap raised up by the media because he refused on racial grounds to aid his nation. He believed his only enemies were white Americans.
In an interview with Playboy, he described his deeply held beliefs on the need to keep racial mixing from taking place. He said that white men who try to carry on a relationship with black women should be killed, that black women who have relations with white men should be killed, that black men who go after white women should be killed.
You really think THIS is some kind of hero? The man was a racist, anti-American, self-aggrandizing thug that was hailed as a glorious icon by the U.S. media during a time when the liberals in this country wanted to incite racial conflict and undermine America’s war and cold war efforts.
” he refused on racial grounds to aid his nation.”
I thought the reason he refused to join the Army was that Islam was a peaceful religion and by going to war he would be violating its teachings;)