If you haven't already, please consider reading Ali's autobiography. He was such an intelligent, compassionate, and talented individual.
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Like I said: read the book. Read the book before these listicle having publications have you parroting lies about Muhammad Ali.
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These stories like "Clay was a slave name, that's why he chanced it." Dude. It's so much deeper than that/read the book.
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Ali's father, Cassius Clay Sr., was named after Cassius Marcellus Clay—a white abolitionist. He named his son Cassius Clay Jr.
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White people LOVED telling Ali how he was named after one of the greatest whites ever: an abolitionist and personal friend of Abe Lincoln.
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So Ali started researching Cassius Marcellus Clay; found Clay's writings indicated he thought the white race was scientifically superior.
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Ali started showing that to his white teachers. They were embarrassed that they didn't even know what they were talking about.
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Ali didn't want to be a associated with Clay who, as he put it, "had gotten rid of his slaves, but held on to white supremacy."
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So how did he choose a new name? Who was Muhammad Ali named after? Read "The Greatest: My Own Story" and find out.
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Muhammad Ali was black. Muhammad Ali was Muslim. Muhammad Ali was radical.
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"Ali belonged to everyone." Yeah, no. That's beyond offensive. Only people who know nothing about him would claim this.
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To write that Ali, a black Muslim who spoke and wrote so eloquently against being owned somehow "belongs" to you? Nah.
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Ali's death illustrates the unbearable whiteness of black sports writing. From lefty magazines to the New Yorker to the newspaper of record.
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Please send me black and/or muslim writers publishing incredible prose on Muhammad Ali. I know it exists; crowd my mentions with it.
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@JoyAnnReid You are on fire. Tell it, Aura.
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I loved reading the Autobio of Malcolm X. He talked about Ali. I need to read his book next.
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@Lamarche And he called white folk racist.
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In the words of Harriet Tubman she said she would've been able to free more slaves only if they knew they were slaves
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@honey89052 Exactly! That's how the Clintons get the southern black vote. Don't even know they're getting duped -
Maybe it you that's the idiot, Skipper skip on good bye.
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