I can never understand hating Ali

I think that we get exactly the spread of opinion on Ali that you would expect to be honest.

 

Merchants ghost is a ******.

 

Then why didn't he simply say that?

I haven't seen anyone say they hate Ali because he wants only Black women. I don't think anyone cares what kind of women he wants.

The point Ali was making was that race mixers and people who dated or married outside outside of their Muslim religion should be killed.

He went on to say that if a person knows of this and does nothing they should also be killed.

If you approve of that- say so, but don't try to change what Ali said. He has had 40 years to recant his words and he never has.


Blacks commit around 8,000 homicides per year in the U.S. Do you think the media sifts through each one of these to see if the perpetrators read the Playboy interview?

 

Ali did many cruel things through out the first two thirds of his career and said many things many times that alienated many … starting w the 1996 Olympics when he openly displayed his Parkenson's as he lit the torch there began a rebranding of him, airbrushing a ton of things he said and did in his past .. that's why there is a lot of bad feelings … I'm not passing judgement on motives, simply stating the history ...

 

Mustard, may I ask you a question?

 

I agree.

Whether he was a devil or an angel, it is easy to understand why some people dont like him.

 

Don't raise expectations, man.

Janitor! :adminYou just quoted someone perfectly! :yikes Do you know what this means?

 

Who, where, how?????????????

 

Ali was heavily into the Nation of Islam during this period. That sect came with a stringent 'pricelist' You could n't pick and choose which tract you could follow and which one you could n't. It's well known that his views have moved on since those days,anyhow.

 

Damn near impossible to defend these comments, I reckon...yet some choose to defend them, and even more than this, deify the man who uttered them. I can't understand that.

Personally I wouldn't like anybody who held these views. Imo this is not dis-similar to the hate filled bile spewed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s...just from a different angle, imo.