Muhammad Ali has passed away

[texansfan]

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that's a yoga pose

[El Forajido]

well stated but some of these folks gonna hang on to that priviledge and keep hate alive-remember some think nugent is they're tio

Speaking of keeping hate alive http://www.heavyweightblog.com/262/c...-ali-is-racism

[HoustonR6ryda]

O.K.

Please please tell me you are speaking of white privelage. That would be so adorable. And keeping hate alive? As you quoted the guy who brought race into this discussion in the first place. Oh and Nugents a Chode so what.

It must be so easy going through life blaming everything on race and privilege It's like being a child with no responsibility.


I'm a vet raised in a family of vets. We don't care for no liberal pos draft dodging hippies regardless of their race. If you have a valid argument otherwise fine but dont continue to bring race into the issue to help make your point if you are too ignorant to formulate a valid argument otherwise.

If the shoe fits.

argue for what? ...hope and change.........I take the Larry Mahan's size 12.

[coop]

I guess some people only mourn the passing of the 100% pure. That sure cuts down on mourning.

I only mourn the people I respect.

[47]

Speaking of keeping hate alive

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqiWFLsgVi4"]Muhammad Ali - Racial Integration - YouTube[/ame]

[coop]

I served with and watched to many young black men die in Vietnam to buy into the "he didn't fight because of the way he was treated in his home town". Many of those great young black men died thinking they were helping to make race relations better back home. They were great men that over came what Clay wasn't man enough to do.

He was a coward, draft dodger and the second greatest heavy weight fighter to live.

What exactly did he do to improve race relations and make America safer and greater?

All I have to say on the subject.

[M.E.B.]

My grandmother gave me the same speech when I told her I was going to ask a cute Mexican girl out when I was in high school.

Met my blonde and blue eyed wife before I got up the nerve to do it and that was that.

[Uncle Saggy]

Why is the race card being used here? Give it a rest. The people on here that don't like C Clay is because of him openly dodging the draft. Way to sensitive.


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He openly fought the draft in court
He didn't dodge and run

[Dale Moser]

At the end of the day, Ali wanted the prosperity America had to offer a heavy weight champ, he wanted to ***** about the things he didn't like, and he didn't want to do anything to change them. He was all about himself. He was also a great showman, a world champ, and a draft dodger.

[DarrellS]

I served with and watched to many young black men die in Vietnam to buy into the "he didn't fight because of the way he was treated in his home town". Many of those great young black men died thinking they were helping to make race relations better back home. They were great men that over came what Clay wasn't man enough to do.

He was a coward, draft dodger and the second greatest heavy weight fighter to live.

What exactly did he do to improve race relations and make America safer and greater?

All I have to say on the subject.

Thank you, sir.

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[texansfan]

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[bloodtrailer28]

At the end of the day, Ali wanted the prosperity America had to offer a heavy weight champ, he wanted to ***** about the things he didn't like, and he didn't want to do anything to change them. He was all about himself. He was also a great showman, a world champ, and a draft dodger.

Spot on.
Hell of a fighter but other than that....

[boblee]

I'll mention before saying another word that I am a veteran. US Army, November, 1965 - November 1971.

My grandpa and I were listening to the radio the night Cassius Clay put Sonny Liston to the canvas and proclaimed himself to be The Greatest. Time proved him true.

He had skills like no others before him and none after, at least not in the Heavyweight class. A pure phenomenon.

He remained true to his beliefs and his convictions in the face of losing everything. As he did for a time...

Hate and prejudice remain alive and well and tragically, it seems they always will. I've outlived and outgrown both. Muhammad Ali did too.

If I could be granted the wish to meet and talk with five people, living or dead, Ali would be one of them.

RIP Champ.


Bob Lee

[DRT]

He had the freedom to choose to be a Muslim because other men chose to fight for that freedom.

Great boxer. Used to enjoy watching him fight.

I'm not qualified to be his judge. Nor any other persons. But I don't feel a loss for him. Won't for Uncle Ted either. But the Duke now that's a different story.

[texasdeerhunter]

Speaking of the Olympics, after Ali "whooped the world", winning Gold for America, he went to a cafe IN HIS HOME TOWN, for a hotdog and a coffee. The waitress said, "We don't serve negroes here."

Ali replied, "Good, cuz I don't eat'em. But I'll take a hotdog and a coffee."

They made him leave. Did I mentioned he had the gold medal around his neck?!

He's good enuff to represent America in the olympics, but not good enough to eat a freaking hotdog in your establishment?!

And y'all made cuz he didn't want go fight for a country that treated him as a second-hand citizen?!

Get off the gas, bro.

Granted, I couldn't take up for any minority for using the same reasoning to dodge the draft today (if we had one), but as a vet myself, I would not of fought, either, if America was like it was in the 1960's.

Put yourself in his shoes.


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Interesting perspective. I don't know what it was like living in the 60's or 70's as a black man (I wasn't even born until 1980 lol). Ali should be remembered for what he was, one of if not the best boxer that ever lived.