RE: Muhammad Ali dead
June 8, 2016 at 5:56 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2016 at 6:03 pm by paulpablo.)
(June 7, 2016 at 10:17 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I think what he meant was that Ali became less radicalised
He joined the Nation of Islam in his youth, which has some pretty radical ideas about race and other beliefs. Later on though he left and just started following Sunni Islam, I think.
In his late 20s he had similar ideas towards white people as Donald Trump does now towards Muslims. His philosophy was that he wouldn't trust a lot of white people because only a few of them could be trust worthy, therefore it was safer to "Close the door on them" and stay safe.
“There are many white people who mean right and in their hearts wanna do right,” he said. “If 10,000 snakes were coming down that aisle now, and I had a door that I could shut, and in that 10,000, 1,000 meant right, 1,000 rattlesnakes didn’t want to bite me, I knew they were good… Should I let all these rattlesnakes come down, hoping that that thousand get together and form a shield? Or should I just close the door and stay safe?”
He also said that he agreed with the KKK about seperatism and even did a speech at a KKK meeting.
I've heard that there are some indications he was brainwashed and even intimidated by the nation of Islam and that some of his family members and girlfriends really hated the nation of Islam because of that.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
