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re: Why is Muhammad Ali so revered when he is a racist POS?
Posted on 1/10/09 at 3:10 pm to tjohn deaux
Posted on 1/10/09 at 3:10 pm to tjohn deaux
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Wow an awful lot of people defend Ali's extremist beliefs regarding white people
Those beliefs weren't uncommon among black people, I'd imagine, and there is a history of why those people felt that way. Some still do.
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yet not interviewing a black candidate for a coaching postion is racist
Are you telling me that there are no black coaches out there that are interested in becoming a head coach?
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Everybody is a victim of something and is entitled to something because of it
Are you saying there haven't been inequalities that exist between the dominant culture and minorities?
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MLK was preaching that if you want respect, be respectable, improve yourself, do something positive
People are terribly miseducated about MLK. He was so radical at that time, they killed him. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are alive and well today.
MLK was about to launch a major campaign that would have called for a massive redistribution of wealth in this country about the time he was killed. Anti-discrimination laws were just one part of what he wanted to accomplish.
This post was edited on 1/10/09 at 3:18 pm
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Posted on 1/10/09 at 4:01 pm to Rocket
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Those beliefs weren't uncommon among black people, I'd imagine, and there is a history of why those people felt that way. Some still do.
Clearly.
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Are you telling me that there are no black coaches out there that are interested in becoming a head coach?
Absolutely not. I am saying it should not be considered racist just because a black candidate is not interviewed.
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Are you saying there haven't been inequalities that exist between the dominant culture and minorities?
No I'm not saying that either. I'm saying that being mstreated or discriminated against is not something new, it is not isolated to one race, and should not be used as a crutch. By that I don't mean everyone uses it as a crutch.
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People are terribly miseducated about MLK. He was so radical at that time, they killed him. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are alive and well today.
MLK was about to launch a major campaign that would have called for a massive redistribution of wealth in this country about the time he was killed. Anti-discrimination laws were just one part of what he wanted to accomplish.
I don't dispute that, but he was not about complaining about oppression, but was preaching self improvement.
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tubucoco -
so he spouts some bull shite at the end of his paragraph and you salute him brilliant, I just don't find it fair to attack someone about a time that none of us know anything about, didn't live in those times, don't know the hostilty people face in those times , so you just can't come right out and call someone a racist extremist without the whole picture.
I would say calling white men the devil is racist, extremist, no matter when you did it.
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