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To: nickcarraway
Muhammad Ali’s Great-Great-Great-Grandfather

That's just preposterous. I can barely find information about my own ggg-grandfathers in England and Germany and those were advanced civilizations with extensive written civil and church records. In Africa, there was no written language and nothing but oral traditions and stories passed down. This is just a silly feel-good story to MAYBE keep the lunatics from destroying the statue.

4 posted on 02/26/2021 6:04:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This would have been in the U.S., not Africa.


5 posted on 02/26/2021 6:07:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Interesting point! Knew my GGGM escaped from the Trail of Tears. Knew of the family who took her in..but haven’t found anything about parents or siblings.

We belong to the local tribe but have run into a brick wall.


6 posted on 02/26/2021 6:09:53 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ali’s real name was Cassius Marcellus Clay. He was named after a Kentucky abolitionist/Republican politician.


7 posted on 02/26/2021 6:12:51 PM PST by madison10 (Although the wrong seems oft so strong...God is the Ruler yet!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It may have been M. Ali’s ancester. I can not prove yes or no concerning the validity. And neither can you. There may be actual proof. An investigation could prove the statement to be truthful.


8 posted on 02/26/2021 6:14:05 PM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

DNA testing in 2018 has proven the claim to be true.


11 posted on 02/26/2021 6:19:09 PM PST by madison10 (Although the wrong seems oft so strong...God is the Ruler yet!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“I can barely find information about my own ggg-grandfathers in England and Germany and those were advanced civilizations with extensive written civil and church records.”

I can trace back my Italian ancestors who settled in Brooklyn as early as 1840, and even went to the archives in Naples to trace our lineage. Most of them had mafia ties LOL


17 posted on 02/26/2021 6:50:13 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s just preposterous. I can barely find information about my own ggg-grandfathers in England and Germany and those were advanced civilizations with extensive written civil and church records. In Africa, there was no written language and nothing but oral traditions and stories passed down.

And in Africa most of their time was spent scavaging for food and catching flies to eat off each other’s faces and other fly covered areas.
Remember when Barack went there the flies loved landing on that pile.
In most areas they still haven’t learned to feed themselves or purify water. Even after thousands of humanitarian missions.


18 posted on 02/26/2021 7:01:25 PM PST by cquiggy
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