Over the last decade or so, there’s been an increasing deification of Muhammed Ali, culminating in the current film. Unfortunately, the film’s tagline, “Forget what you think you know,” seems to mean, “Forget what the historical record shows.” Ali, a very talented boxer, was no saint.
Under the influence of Elijah Mohammad – who preached that blacks should refuse to integrate with “white devils” – Ali made a point of dating only black women and lashed out at men and women who engaged in interracial sex. In an interview with Playboy, he declared: “A black man should be killed if he’s messing with a white woman.” When the interviewer asked about black women crossing the colour barrier, Ali responded: “Then she dies. Kill her, too.”
It’s unlikely that a white athlete who made such remarks would receive the praise that Michael Mann heaps on Ali. He says that the fighter “personified racial pride and self-knowledge”. The Playboy journalist, who interviewed the boxer, was closer to the mark when he observed of his subject: “You’re beginning to sound like a carbon copy of a white racist.”
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
A Black Muslim spouting racist crap? Water is wet, too.
To clarify, there’s that bit of BM dogma that the origin of the Evil White Race was crossbreeding between original (black) humans and demons.