"While the slave masters cheer for slavery, they get a freakish thrill making the slave cheer for slavery." —Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016
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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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@fledgelingfem Ok, that's really cool. I didn't know/realize that his name change was a way of taking back his identity. -
This is history I didn't learn, either. Think I'll pick up his book.
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that was perfectly worded.
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thank you for saying this. a podcast I listen to did an episode on Cassius Marcellus Clay, & I was really disappointed when 1/?
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it ended with the hosts laughing at Ali for changing his name. people love to imply that he didn't understand the history of 2/?
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the name and was somehow misguided when he chose to change it. it's so insulting to his intelligence.
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