tribute to the great

‘A black man should be killed if he’s messing around with a white women,’ he said.And if a black woman was messing with a white man?‘Then she dies. Kill her too.’

Muhammad Ali

let us not berate the passed,

it was before he converted was it not?
"Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am
Muhammad Ali, a free name - it means beloved of God - and I insist people use it
when people speak to me and of me."

No It was after and when he was a member of the racist group 'Nation of Islam'

Don't forget that he may have mellowed his views later in life but does that excuse this?

depends, do you believe in repenting sins? do you believe i forgiveness? do you believe in wieghing up good and bad??

I am not god so no I don't

rightly some peoples whole careers have been destroyed over a single racist remark

was he apologetic for his racism? I've found nothing that said he did

But tell me if he was white and he said this do you think he should be forgiven and still hold the title 'the greatest'?

He should have been stripped of all his titles and thrown into the wilderness

as i said it was when he was cassius clay not muhhamed ali. this is from an article


‘When Cassius Clay joined the Black Muslims, he became a champion of racial segregation and that is what we are fighting against.’

as you can see you are wrong it was when he joined the nation of Islam not before

‘religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart.
yes but i am referring to when he changed his name. it was after that and he addmitted he was wrong

Is that all it takes for you to ignore the horrible racist comments he made?

But as you can see it was when he was a member of the nation of Islam that he was at his most racist what he called himself is irrelevant

no he was a rascist and a discriminative young man. but when you grow, you learn and grow, in which he did.
Muhammad Ali was wrong about many things he spouted as a provocative young man, but right about so many as he reached old age.
Let us all learn from his wisdom and act upon it.

I prefer to keep racists at arms length and not eulogize them in the national press

but this distortion of who he was and what he did is quite shocking

why is it? you learn from the past, for the future

Yes and we now know you treat racists as the idiots they are

If he were fighting today and said what he did he would have been stripped of his titles arrested for inciting violence and be a social pariah for the rest of his life and IMO rightly so.

well he was not, ant imo he changed, and repented. if you say that then david cameron should not lead us because hes stupid as he shoved his genitals in a pigs head