Muhammad Ali dead

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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.

No one is dragging him over ideas whatever that means. I was replying to you when you said you think he became less radicalised in later life, I was basically saying yes he was very radicalised, intimidated and brainwashed by the Nation of Islam. I was then asked to provide citation, followed by other citations followed by explanations so yes it does look like I'm focusing on this one point a lot but I'm really not. I'm just simply providing citations when asked.

I'd also suggest that he possibly had more to fear from other black men than white people. When he was becoming less radicalised I'm sure he was aware of what happened to Malcolm X when he became less radicalised and joined Sunni Islam.