“you’re a hater of your people if you don’t want to stay who you are.”
He’s summed up the leftist, globalist mindset
Ali is the Greatest...in more ways than one.;-)
Cassius Clay is the man.
Gaseous Cassius
Ali is funny. He has some good points. It shows that even an advocate of segregation does not necessarily do so out of racial hatred. This is free speech which would be strongly condemned today to the point that if Ali were at the peak of his career today, he would lose that career for these words alone.
On the other hand, advocating for an integrated society is also free speech.
More significantly, Ali clearly has white ancestry as well as black. This undercuts a lot of his arguments. He says it’s natural (and means that it’s ONLY natural) to want to marry someone who has the same ethnic and cultural background as you do. That may be what he wants, and that’s fine. But it may not be what others want, including some of his own ancestors. Ali’s looks came from ancestors who didn’t subscribe to his beliefs.
On their website (NOI.org), Calypso Louie Farrakhan and his band of merry racists used to have a prominent page describing how the White race was created 6600 years ago by a black mad scientist named Yakub, who created them specifically for the purpose of bedeviling black folk. NOI since has wised up and removed that particular (and obviously ridiculous) page (or if it's there they've hidden it where I can't find it) but the story of Yakub is still noted on the NOI's wikipedia page.
They also have an oral tradition that at the time of the building of the pyramids of Egypt, black folk could fly, but Yakub's White devils stole that ability from them, conveniently omitting the details of how black folk could manage to fly, how the White devils managed to steal it, or why the White devils themselves have never made use of it.
That's the nonsense "Ali" was buying into, and that degree of cynicism rarely if ever washes off.
When Ali converted (again) to 'mainstream' (Sunni) Islam, he allegedly did so over dissatisfaction with the transition of power after the death of Elijah Muhammad, but he never renounced the NOI's racist and anti-Semitic doctrine, or its fairy tale origins.
After the 9/11 attacks, Ali was quoted as saying, "...they are not real Muslims. They are racist fanatics who call themselves Muslims," invoking the Muhammadan's favorite rhetorical tactic, the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy, while conveniently ignoring that the same was true of the Nation of Islam: "They are racist fanatics who call themselves Muslims."
A little-known "inside boxing" story, Ali might have lost the opportunity to fight for the title when he did (and might never again have been in the position to fight for the belt) if Angelo Dundee hadn't bent the rules in the Henry Cooper fight. Cooper rocked Clay in the final seconds of the 4th, and would have floored Clay if he hadn't caught the ropes first. The bell rang and as Dundee worked with Clay after the round, he found a small tear in one of his gloves. Knowing there were no spare gloves at ringside, and knowing his fighter needed some time to clear the cobwebs, Dundee poked a finger in the little hole and made it a big one, then complained to the referee that the glove was torn.
And the fight was stopped while they went looking for a replacement. Which is why all prizefights now have to keep spare gloves at ringside.
Ali TKO'd Cooper in the next round, on the basis of which he got the title fight with Liston.
Ali - most overrated athlete ever. If Mike Tyson and Ali fought in their prime, Tyson would clobber Ali.
Chicken shit draft dodger!