By Solomon Comissiong | Black Agenda Report | June 8, 2016 On June 3rd, 2016, Muhammad Ali passed away in Scottsdale Arizona. And as many reflect upon the life and times of the late great Muhammad Ali, it is important to recognize the sheer irony riddled throughout the US corporate media. Virtually every channel has […]
The Media’s Saint of the Diversity Religion was anything butWhen Muhammad Ali announced that he would not fight in Viet Nam because, "No Viet Cong ever called me nigger" I could see the genius in what he said. In those seven words he furnished every black man in America a credible reason not to submit to conscription.
Poop power is in the pipes over in China; Chile has so much solar power they have to give it away for free; and tofu power is a better idea than eating it.
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
While no one is likely to dispute Muhammad Ali’s claim to the title of Greatest Sports Star of All-Time, it was his potency and relevance as an inimitable cultural and social icon that many more people beyond the realm of sport will always remember him for. There has been no one else in the world […]
In harsh places around the formerly colonial Third World, where poverty born of foreign exploitation left many millions living wretched lives in unrelenting misery, a reason to believe in better tomorrows inspiringly arose during the first decades of the second half of the 20th Century.
With the news that the great boxing legend, Muhammad Ali, has passed away, here’s a 1971 BBC interview that the mass media won’t be airing any excerpts of, and you will soon see why!
As dead black bodies continue to pile and mount up across this nation-state after being murdered at state- and societally-sanctioned hands, it does an old Baby Boomer’s body and soul good to see that yes, finally, a new generation has blown the whistle, and picked up the mantle that my own generation dropped not so long ago. (For the record and for the curious, I’m 65, and have been on the racial battlefield my entire adult life. That means that I’m what we used to call back in the day a “race man” when it comes to black folks – not a “racist,” but a race man.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Mohammed Ali (born Cassius M. Clay) is probably the most famous draft resister in US history. When refusing to accept the draft in 1967, during the American war against Vietnam he told the Press:
