re: Why is Muhammad Ali so revered when he is a racist POS?

All that American white devil bullshite comes out of the Nation of Islam's hate teachings working its way down from the teachings of Wallace Fard Muhammad (or what ever his real name was) to Robert Elijah Poole (renamed Elijah Muhammad who taught and influened men like Malcolm X, Ali, and Farrakhan. They also have some wierd beliefs about The Mother Wheel (a highly technical UFO built in Japan that carry bombs that makes mountains).

One of the first books I read at LSU my freshman year was The Zebra Killings about a Black Muslim sect in SF in the early 70's by a group called the Death Angels.

Ali gets a pass for his beliefs b/c of his success as a boxer. Maybe since then he and other radical members of the Nation of Islam have changed their beliefs about race but the core of the Nation's teachings are still there today.