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“When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn’t just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say. . . . I wanted to be a champion who was accessible to everyone. I hoped to inspire others to take control of their lives and to live with pride and self-determination.”
Muhammad Ali’s advocacy for racial justice began with his awareness and experience of racism and white supremacy in Louisville, Kentucky. His dedication to his boxing career was accompanied by his profound conviction that he had a greater purpose. He consistently challenged white supremacy, racism, segregation, and U.S. hegemony.
“In an age of Jim Crow laws and brutal lynchings, for a young Black man to stand up and proclaim his greatness, defy convention, refuse to be humble or to know his place, was an incomparable act of bravery and defiance.”
We were just talkin’ about immigration and the undermining of Nation’s and Folk’s identity by the Zionist effort of ‘mixing’ the people.
This is what a WORLD CHAMPION and CIVIL RIGHTS ICON thinks about this:
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Muhammad Ali talks about racial integration in USA; November 1971 on Parkinson, a British television chat show.
The 1200 o’clock bells ring.
Friday afternoon.
