re: The real reason Muhammad Ali refused the draft

Elija Muhammad, aka Elija Poole, born and partially raised in Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia. Now there is an interesting place. My high school team started playing WACO in 1970, the year of total school integration in most of the deep South. Man, that was a scary place to go play back then; not because they were good, but because you had the feeling that ANYTHING could happen at anytime.
Later on, the racial situation calmed down there, and their football team might have been the best bunch I've seen in the state of Georgia.