June 09, 2016
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
He taught us all by word and example that there can be no "for sale" sign, no "price tag" on principles, human dignity, and freedom
It is only when a GIANT passes from among us and we stand blinking and rubbing our eyes in the glaring reality of our loss that…
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Commentary
Columnist
Ali’s Unapologetic Manhood in a White America that considered itself decent.
White America loses Muhammad Ali while a major segment of it tries to go back in time. Black America loses Muhammad Ali while it seemingly tries…
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Commentary
Columnist
Muhammad Ali’s humor and gentle nature in the face of great racism, is why the USA is a tad closer to being “a more perfect union.” You might think Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is racist (as I do), but he’s only a mouthpiece for the millions of other white Americans who keep Muhammad Ali’s fight for freedom, justice and equality alive. I hate that fact, but it’s a reality!
Let me cry if I want to. I, like millions of others across the globe, knew that Muhammad Ali was not long for this world. His…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Ali was man of defiant action. By not going to Vietnam, to “strike” on demand, by not doing this bloody empire’s dirty work. Ali made it clear he wasn’t that quiet, humble, docile, mindless killing machine which attacks only when his massa instructs him to. Ali defiantly lived, demonstrated, and endured, as did Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and Angela Davis - because he made a stand, a stand which has forever endeared Muhammad Ali to millions, and millions all around the world, to the four-corners of the globe.
Black folks owe this man, Muhammad Ali so much . . . never was so very much owed by so very many … to merely one…
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