- Muhammad Ali

We will revile you, take your employment away, mock you endlessly, deny you agency, call you a reverse racist, refuse to call you by your true name, wire tap you, ridicule you when you go to Iraq to (successfully) bring hostages home, and basically remind you in every way possible that you are nothing more than a…

Seriously. If they were REALLY following his life, they’d KNOW he stopped being Clay a very long time ago.

It’s like when this happened

Some people are referring to him as Cassius Clay in a weird hipstery attempt to act like they followed his life. Like, “I knew him before he joined the Nation Of Islam.” But they are so, so dumb.

it’s basically “they were so good we didnt even CARE that they were black!!” its so awful

you are stuck on this and your attempts to use it as an explanation to what is probably your own racism is transparent af.

Whenever a black person or black people come into a predominantly white sport and do better than everyone the answer is usually to marginalize them as much as possible in their everyday life and as their employer. Whether it’s “Well, you can play football, but never quarterback - you’re not smart enough for that”…

I’m thinking that may have a lot to do with how people who were not “his own” treated him.

black people preferring the company of other black people is not racist.

the amount of people ive seen calling him cassius clay is staggering and so fucked up

Thank you so much Kara!

Really great article, Kara. I get what they’re trying to say but to me when someone writes or says “transcended race” it just feels like they’re saying “we really liked them even though they were black” or “good thing they escaped that whole being black thing otherwise we wouldn’t have paid them any attention at all.”

Any sportscaster who thinks people didn’t see color when they saw Ali should find another line of work. There’s a fucking reason why Jerry Quarry was called ‘The Great White Hope’ when he went up against Ali. Because whenever a black man became a boxing champ, white America lost their shit.

What’s a DVD?

This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine and is starting to ruin concerts for me.

I deeply regret my casual disregard for your pain and suffering. It came from a place of deep ignorance but not hatred. I am sorry if my words offended you. I will try to be better in the future.

“But her apology isn’t going to do anything for your life.”

I want to know what any one of these fucking lunatics would have done if it was their child in the gorilla enclosure. I truly am devastated that the he had to be killed. It’s awful. But between that and a child being ripped to shreds while dozens of people looked on, I’m going with shoot the gorilla.