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Over the last decade or so, there’s been an increasing deification of Muhammed Ali, culminating in the current film<\/a>. 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.”
\nIt’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.”<\/p>\n

(Via Andrew Sullivan<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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