I don't remember him calling Foreman a uncle tom, he called him a Belgian I know that

But that does little to set back what he actually did for his race and more importantly his religion imo. Whether he was saying something stupid or saying something intelligent he was bringing the issue to the forefront and that was the big thing. People had long just tried to keep segragration a dirty little secret. Up until the 60's it was never a political issue or anything. Almost the same way race is treated today, nobody really wanted to talk about it. So when you have a guy bringing issues like race, war and religion to the forefront, you can't say he just wasn't important. He was. Was everything he did great? No. Did he say a lot of things that were really fairly despicable? Absolutely. But you can't say he didn't change the landscape.