Jim Brown = GOAT

There is a huge difference between the Civil Rights activists of the 50s and 60s and the "Neo Civil Rights" activists (aka Black Lives Matter) of the 21st century. Those original activists had a genuine love for this country. You saw American flags all over the place during their marches. Now you hardly see a single one of them.

Jim Brown always felt disrespected due to his color but he never let that affect his love for this country.

Bo Jackson/Herschel Walker but in the 1950's/1960's.

(P.S. Bo >>>>>> Herschel)

The revisionist history around the Civil Rights Movement and its activists is laughable, at this point. They were some of the most hated people in the country and absolutely NOT thought of as patriots, at the time. Hence the reason so many of them got their brains blown out.

Now when it fits people's agendas, Ali, MLK, Jim Brown, etc, are thrown out as the beacons of patriotism by many of the same people who would've hated their guts had they been around at that time.

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You do realize that what the racists, good ol' boys, and Jim Crow lovers thought of THEM had nothing to do with what they were (heroes) and how they actually felt (love of country) right?

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Yes, and the same applies in 2016. Activism is never popular while its happening.

Today's "activists" are nothing like the civil rights activists of the past, who actually stood for something.

I was a bit blown away by that conversation. It was infinitely more mature and thoughtful than anything I've heard from ESPN or the NFL.

Observation: Jim Brown looks old and decrepit but when he talks he's just as sharp/quick as ever.

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"Neo Civil Rights" activists (aka Black Lives Matter)

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please don't call them that. Actual civil rights activists don't even halfway, remotely, anywhere close resemble the morons sitting in highways today.

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They were some of the most hated people in the country and absolutely NOT thought of as patriots, at the time.

Now when it fits people's agendas, Ali, MLK, Jim Brown, etc, are thrown out as the beacons of patriotism by many of the same people who would've hated their guts had they been around at that time.

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Well Ali certainly wasn't. What's funny is the narrative was crafted by Ali as the outsider, the champion for equality for all and it was the complete opposite compared to reality.

But everyone bought the narrative.

In those Frazier vs. Ali fights - you had the Hard Hats, Cops, Conservatives holding up Frazier as the "white man's hope."

From Frazier's Biography: "Come out Smokin' Joe

"Ali was idol among blacks and liberals, a hero among college students and hippies and yippies, a Martyr among Muslims and peaceniks.

"Frazier unwillingly carried the colors of the establishment, the Patriot groups, the silent majority, the Hard Hats and Unions."

"The irony was, that it was Joe Frazier, not Ali, who grew up in the depths of poverty, the racism and ghettos of the deep South.

"Ali came from relative affluence in Louisville. Growing up, Ali lived in a comfortable home. Frazier lived in a shack. Ali had his own bicycle and never had to work. Frazier picked vegetables for $1 a day and made his own punching bag."

"I'm gonna give him a ghetto whupping," Ali said.

"What he know about the Ghetto," Frazier replied.

"Everybody who is black wants me to win and anybody who is black who thinks Frazier can whup me is an Unlce Tom," Ali said.

"There was a time when Ali tried to get Frazier to join the Muslim Brotherhood. Joe refused when he found out the leader of the Muslims, Elijah Muhammad and his sons lived in big mansions and drove fancy cars while the followers of the sect were poor."

"I think he is a phony. I've seen pictures of him in cars with white guys, hugging them and laughing. Then he goes and calls me an Uncle Tom. Don't be saying, I hate the white man and then run to them for help. His trainer is white, a lot of guys around him are white. Well my manager is black and all the guys in my group are black. What about that?"

"Clay believes things different that me," Frazier pointed out. "He believes black and white should be treated different. I believe everybody is the same. A lot he stands for his true. But I don't want to live off hate. But that don't make me no Uncle Tom. I'm just doing a job. I ain't no white hope. I'm only a hope for them."

"The NAACP even threw up picket lines outside of Frazier's gym to jeer him."