"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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"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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America didn't love him until he got Parkinsons,once he couldn't speak for himself outloud
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America loved him as long as I can remember & I was born in 1960
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yea uhhh I think you need to ask more people or read old clippings
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I just know what I lived. And heard w/my own ears. He was loved in Baltimore.
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So you were around when his boxing license was suspended? And when he was stripped of his title?
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You were alive when newspapers wouldn't even call him by his name but... he was loved? What??
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that's offensive to his legacy. EVERYTHING he did was in the spirit of being a BLACK MUSLIM.
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a Black man who was Muslim inspired you. It's okay to say that. His being Black and Muslim is why you were inspired
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how about you don't "just say" anything and stop trying to police what Black ppl say? Know your place.
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@BlueDuPage Muhammad Ali was a racist. https://goo.gl/HdXNwZ pic.twitter.com/iQ5i1bKIU6
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that's not what any of that means.

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It is/was very ugly racism: "Come on, gorilla! We're in Manila! Come on, gorilla, this is a thrilla!"
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I can read. You're still wrong. Colorisim? Yep. Prejudice? Eh. Black people can't be racists.
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Yes they can be & calling Joe Frazier a gorilla is a good example of a black man being a racist.
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