Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
I don't really care what he'd be all I know is he would still have S*** that smelled like roses!


Everyone says he's the most important athlete in the history of sports....I highly doubt it added to which indignity they say he was a champion of the Civil Rights movement, yet apparently I am the only one recalling the fact that he used Joe Frazier's and George Foreman's race against them....black brother my a**!

I think everyone is so enamored with Ali's skill in the ring and talking that it doesn't matter that he called members of his own race Uncle Tom's and Gorilla's

Don't get me wrong Ali did great in the ring and he took a solid political stand against an unpopular war but let's NOT portray this guy as some sort of infallible God because he had his faults just like anyone else and those should be recognized as well as his achievements.

Be REAL about your heroes...creating some sort of folktale about them serves no purpose whatsoever

























Come off it Lyle.....the guy pretty much single handedly changed the US race wise in the 60's.
Your country was a mess race wise until he made that Vietnam stance and stuck two fingers up to the White house and led the way by example.
One man army imo who had his biggest fights outside the ring and still won by Knockout
I'm a White Londoner and am in awe of Mr Ali still