You can't drag someone over an opinion they had decades ago. I'd be more interested to see what he was saying in the last few years, especially now considering his grandchildren are white. People's views change all the time throughout their lives.
And as others have said, people are taking things out of context. Ali grew up in the height of segregation and the time of the lynchings. You're surprised he might have been, to say the least, pissed at the system? I'm not.
But then that's what America has done all through history, treat black people like shit and then tell them they're out of order when they're angry about it. It's still going on today with the reaction to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, people were calling Beyonce a "terrorist" because she addressed police brutality in her music video and channelled The Black Panthers.
And as others have said, people are taking things out of context. Ali grew up in the height of segregation and the time of the lynchings. You're surprised he might have been, to say the least, pissed at the system? I'm not.
But then that's what America has done all through history, treat black people like shit and then tell them they're out of order when they're angry about it. It's still going on today with the reaction to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, people were calling Beyonce a "terrorist" because she addressed police brutality in her music video and channelled The Black Panthers.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
