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Muhammad Ali, widely regarded as the world’s most famous man, died in June 2016 at age 74. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, he was a titan both as a boxer and a provocateur.
Because we live in an era much weaker and more sensitive than it was during Ali’s prime, his death is being eulogized with the sort of solemn, sanctimony-addled, weak-tea, low-T, hagiographic twaddle we’ve come to expect from neutered zombie bloggers on antidepressants. Just as mainstream history has photoshopped all the warts off Nelson Mandela and MLK, Ali is now strictly framed as an inspirational figure who “spoke out against racism.” (Certainly they don’t mean the time he condemned interracial sex before a cheering crowd of Klansmen?)
The sad truth is that by shellacking history with a paintbrush soaked in modern pieties, they’re suppressing how hilariously insensitive Ali was. For example, after being forced into an impromptu photo session with The Beatles in 1964, he reportedly turned to an associate and asked, “So who were those little faggots?”
Mere weeks later, he announced that he was changing his “slave name” of Cassius Marcellus Clay to Muhammad Ali at the behest of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. For years, Ali would be used as a completely hoodwinked and manipulated and bamboozled puppet of the NOI and its ditzy theories about Yakub and the Mother Plane.
But sad to say, despite their well-deserved reputation as tremendous athletes and sparkling entertainers, many American blacks have an unfortunate tendency to do dopey things when attempting to “reclaim” their lost heritage. For example, when they renounce Christianity in favor of Islam, they are merely trading one group of their former slave masters for another. Likewise, the original Cassius Marcellus Clay—after whom the boxer was named—was a white anti-slavery crusader who fought with the Union in the Civil War, whereas Muhammad Ali of Egypt was a warlord whose army enslaved the Sudanese.
From 1964 to 1980, Clay/Ali gifted the world with a string of spectacularly insensitive comments that would get any modern white man socially exiled to Pluto for daring to utter their equivalent:
“Integration is wrong. The white people don’t want integration. I don’t believe in forcing it….”
—1964 interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal
“The white man want me hugging on a white woman, or endorsing some whiskey, or some skin bleach, lightening the skin when I’m promoting black as best.”
—1966 interview with Sports Illustrated
“My enemies are white people, not Viet Congs or Chinese or Japanese.”
—1967 interview regarding the draft
“All Jews and gentiles are devils….Blacks are no devils….Everything black people doing wrong comes from the white people—drinking, smoking, prostitution, homosexuality, stealing, gambling—it all comes from (the white people).”
—1969 interview with David Frost
“Every intelligent person wants his child to look like him. I’m sad because I [don’t] want to blot out my race and lose my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese—they love their little slanted-eyed, pretty brown-skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture. Jewish people love their culture. Lotta Catholics don’t wanna marry nothing but Catholics, they want their religion to stay the same. Who wanna spot up yourself and kill your race? You a hater of your people if you don’t want to stay who you are.”
—1971 BBC interview with the portentously named Michael Parkinson
“A black man should be killed if he’s messing with a white woman. And white men have always done that….And not just white men—black men, too. We will kill you, and the brothers who don’t kill you will get their behinds whipped and probably get killed themselves if they let it happen and don’t do nothin’ about it.”
—1975 interview with Playboy
“You know the entire power structure is Zionist. They control America; they control the world.”
—1980 interview with India Today
Ali relentlessly taunted other black boxers, calling them “Uncle Toms” and “gorillas.” He once said that while clinching white boxers, he’d whisper in their ears that the Black Panthers knew where they lived and were going to burn their house down. He also reportedly lied in a 1975 autobiography when claiming that being refused service at a white restaurant caused him to toss his 1960 Olympics Gold Medal in the Ohio River. According to Ali’s friend Bundini Brown, “Honkies sure bought into that one!”
Although Ali’s indomitable ego fueled his ascendancy, it would later prove to be his undoing. He continued stubbornly fighting long after he’d lost his magic, and his 1980 battering at the hands of Larry Holmes was so lopsided, Holmes—a lifelong Ali fan—reportedly cried after the fight out of guilt. In 1984 Ali was diagnosed with what is now called Parkinson’s disease. It was a grim, prolonged public spectacle to view the once indomitably brash heavyweight champion reduced to a jittering mess whose condition was so familiar that comedian Greg Giraldo once joked to Pamela Anderson, “You’ve caused me to spill more seed than Muhammad Ali at a bird feeder.”
Since the 1960s are still remembered as the time when everything changed for the better rather than started falling apart, the reigning modern historians have recast Ali as a man of peace and healing and love and one-worldsmanship rather than the fearless master of physical and psychological cruelty that he was.
Two of my favorite Ali quotes—besides “So who were those little faggots?,” which will never be topped—touch upon one of the most unspeakable topics in this modern “conversation” about race which we’re all supposed to be having but are simultaneously forbidden from even beginning to have. The topic is whether blacks, for all the oppression and brutality they allegedly endure in America, have it worse in Africa.
At the 1960 Rome Olympics, Ali told a reporter: “To me, the U.S.A. is still the best country in the world, counting yours. It may be hard to eat sometimes, but anyhow I ain’t fighting alligators and living in a mud hut.”
After Ali spent months training in Zaire to fight George Foreman, a reporter asked him his impressions of Africa. Ali’s response proves that although his IQ was twice tested at 78, he was a genius at making pithy rejoinders: “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”
(Written in 2016 and published in the 2018 book Whiteness: The Original Sin. Buy all of Jim Goad’s books, signed by the author, HERE. Now accepting PayPal.)
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Cassius Clay was the ultimate black bad-azz. And ,in his prime, he backed up his big mouth in the ring. “I am the Greatest.”
Malcolm X also did not endorse integration. He was like Ali, and preferred a separate but equal division between black and White.
My favorite Ali stories are from some retired LAPD and LA Sheriff deputies who swear up and down that on more than one occasion thry actually gave rides home to Ali after finding him staggering outside crack houses. His fame and friendliness (possibly feigned, sure) saved him from arrest. These guys insist it was the crack abuse that led to Ali’s “Parkinsons” – and they also say that the brass and the media were well aware of Ali’s drug habits as well as his philandering with women of all stripes.
I remember seeing footage of Ali w/ UK talk show host Micheal Parkinson in 1971, where Ali says to White show host Parkinson, that the host has to agree to like mixed-race relationships (because he’s a TV host)
https://akarlin.com/muhammad-ali-on-race/
From Ali’s 1975 interview with Playboy magazine:
Playboy: You’re beginning to sound like a carbon copy of a white racist. Let’s get it out front: Do you believe that lynching is the answer to interracial sex?
Ali: “A black man should be killed if he’s messing with a white woman….And not just white men—black men, too. We will kill you, and the brothers who don’t kill you will get their behinds whipped and probably get killed themselves if they let it happen and don’t do nothin’ about it…We’ll kill anybody who tries to mess around with our women. Ain’t nobody gonna bother them.”
https://genius.com/Playboy-playboy-interview-muhammad-ali-second-interview-1975-annotated
“We’ll kill anybody who tries to mess around with our women. Ain’t nobody gonna bother them.”
What nonblack would “bother” them, other than Kamala Harris’ husband, the fictional character Tom on the sitcom The Jeffersons, or a freak like David Bowie? A tiny handful. All black men want white women, however. Gotta kill a lot of black bucks fo messin wit dem white wimmens, Ali. Millions o dem.
People wonder about the 15% white content that is said to be in the average African American descended from slaves. They usually think it’s the lecherous slaveowner patriarch who did it. Wrong. It was his 15-18 year old son, grandson, or nephew, living on a plantation isolated from white girls of his age, who were miles away and couldn’t be easily approached during those horny years. There were no Playboys or Penthouses then, no way for the white male slaveowner adolescent to easily vent his urges. Except there were willing black girls his age there, probably. Not attractive, but any port in the raging hormonal storm. That’s my theory for the 15%.
Just curious, looking at my comments a couple hours ago, I had upvotes on them. Now the upvotes are gone. I’m not that vain that I constantly look at my own comments, but I did notice this deletion in the process of looking to see if anything is new on the site. If the upvoter retracted his upvotes, that’s fine. I just want to make sure that the upvotes were not deleted by the site administrator, which would not be fine. I read a few years ago that someone’s comments were deleted from throughout this site because the guy pissed off the site administration. I don’t know if that’s true. They’re allowed to do that, of course, at the price of seeming petty, arbitrary, censorious, and unhistorically minded.
The psychology of “Censor me! I dare you!” comments like this baffles me. Usually, I do just that, because my life’s work is not to give a platform for assholes to insult me. But maybe some readers have some insights into this behavior.
Yes, I “censor” this website, because if I didn’t, it would be an absolute sewer. For instance, there’s a particular German schizophrenic who has left thousands of long comments over the years, all of which I delete without reading. If a commenter is stupid, cranky, vulgar, and abusive, I weed him out. If a commenter becomes insane (or eventually lets the mask slip) or is clearly some sort of plant operating in bad faith, I weed him out.
Thanks for replying and not deleting. All I wanted to know is if upvoters are allowed to retract their upvotes, and that the disappearance of upvotes was their choice and not anyone else’s. I support this site, it’s great, I’ve read it for 8 years. I’m not being paranoid in thinking that if it’s a relatively large organization, some people in it would do trivial stuff like censor, by erasing upvotes.
People can retract their upvotes.
I’ve been “censored” here. In every case it was an embarrassing throw away comment by me, maybe trying to be funny. I respect the moderator’s decision and trust is judgement
Hey Greg, would you be easily able to simply delete all the comments I’ve ever made?
No, that would be a pain.
Still, I would beg you to delete all my comments and ban me from the website. I would still make contributions. All I really want is access to the podcast.
I’ve never bothered to check to see if any of my comments have been deleted, but I would imagine a site with this subject matter (not to mention its point of view) would be a chaotic wasteland without a fair amount of comment moderation.
In response to your question, I actually checked with one of your comments and you can easily retract your Like votes by re-clicking it.
For instance, there’s a particular German schizophrenic who has left thousands of long comments over the years, all of which I delete without reading. If a commenter is stupid, cranky, vulgar, and abusive, I weed him out. Hmmmm…the only ones I recall since I’ve been on here are Kok Bori who I believe is Turkish and Pastor Martin Linstadt?’s rages but unsure if he’s German and I don’t believe commented in the thousands. The origin of the ali/clay names is very interesting. Still glad that Frazier knocked that antiWhite scumbag on his ass at the MSG. ali is an absolute piece of garbage and the quicker that Whites stop praising the obvious White-dependent prick the better.
I’m always too self-conscious to go back and look for my comments, unless I get an email alert that someone replied to one. When I’ve written something ill-tempered or unwise, as I know I have done more than once, it is good to know there is censoring.
I’m always haranguing all the so-called “conservative” black political commentators who married White spouses. I suggest they really can’t sufficiently “preach” to either group about preserving family, maintaining consistent culture, traditions, being model parents, etc.
IF they want to be a good role model for their own wayward people, they need to minimally marry someone of the same race. I’ve seen GOP-voting black men say: I refuse to date black women. They guilt me & shame me into taking them on a date, and then scream that I just. can’t. handle. them. (like they’re a poisonous snake?)
I don’t envy your position. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. Could it be you simply didn’t like them? Like guilt trips about not voting for Obama or Hillary or Harris because of color or sex. Maybe their policies make you sick? Maybe you decided to seek your own people instead of others? Regardless of the reason it’s your choice. Loser’s don’t get to control the narrative. Ali never appealed to me as a youthful boxing fan. I liked Frazier. I was intrigued by the oversized white fighters that gave him trouble because they could take a lickin and keep on tickin. I think this coming Juneteenth would be a great day to expose the race realism of the old poet Ali. Float like a butterfly indeed.
Please pardon my earlier reply. I misread the comment as being Kim that rejected a black man. Clearly black men reject a lot of black women. If we watch commercials we’d believe white men adore black women for how smart they are. Fortunately reality overrules this fantasy.
And to them I’d say, “they’re your women, so fix your problem.” Odd how they’d abandon a ‘queen’ for a ‘Karen’ but then you take one look at the wnba’s vile, soulless angel reese and I get why. They know that White women are Wonka’s Golden Ticket. They’re also not theirs. Wanna race mix? What’s wrong with indian, chinese, or arabic women? The only part keyshawntayvious cares about all look the same anyway, and come with hella gibs.
I was young when The Jeffersons was on and I loved that show, but even then I remember thinking that Tom and the British guy seemed deliberately stupid. It offended me and I couldn’t figure out why at that time. The Jews have certainly been playing the long game.
It has been a long time since I have watched The Jeffersons, wasn’t Tom the neighbor who was married to the black woman? Anyway, you know who I am talking about; do you remember that they had one black son, and one white son? Of all the miscegenous relationships I have seen in real life, I have never observed that phenomena—all couplings with blacks produce blacks! 🤵🏿
I remember one episode in which race was treated as a single allele trait. That’s not how it works, of course.
As a youngster, I used to think the Winslows on Family Matters were typical of a black american family with an abundance of urkels, the academic overachieving laura, a clueless but good-hearted waldo, the White friend Rodney, and the very attractive nerd-chasing Michelle Thomas (Myra) who was the first celebrity death I recall really stinging.
I retracted my upvote, and the reason is your user name, Keepin It Real (Real Dumb). My perception is that you are denigrating the site, and its members. Your comments are lucid, and well crafted, but your user name, and three of the posts below me give me the feeling we are under an “out of Africa” attack on this site.—they are comments 5, 6, and 8. 🧌
My thesis is that the majority (say 98%) of the white men Ali saw with black women were jews; jewish men have an intense craving for hirsine, black flesh—it’s the smell! 🐐🐐🐐
You mean beanie feldstein doesn’t do it for you? And who knows what they have on DiCaprio to have him do a test run with bar refaeli who is the ugliest model I’ve ever seen. That one makes me almost weep for the guy.
Some years ago I was with an old girlfriend and her boyfriend, he a Jewish guy who look alarmingly like Charles Schumer. We discussed things, and I said I thought Muhammed Ali was overrated. He immediately blurted “What do you mean?” “I just get tired of hearing how he’s this and that. he was just a prizefighter,” The boyfriend scowled. “Mohammed Ali was one of the greatest men of our time! He’s a great thinker!” “No,” I said. “Great thinkers are the guys who built the Mariner spacecraft that went to mars. That’s thinking.” The boyfriend almost snarled. “You’re just stupid,” he called out, making it sound ‘stoopid.’ I was impressed how this Jewish guy really stuck up to back all the PC program. He was also pretty snide speaking about ‘the goyim.’ When I mentioned how being in the South Pacific seems very far away from, say, Paris, he shot back “don’t be so Eurocentric.”
That being said, Ali is very plainspoken on race, and seemed like an honest guy. When I was in the army in a race relations class, none of the blacks knew of any black heroes the instructor mentioned…Arthur Ashe…Ralph Bunche, etc.(and they were almost neutral on ML King), but they all nodded in unison and almost chanted “Ali…Ali.”
I actually did see Mohammed Ali in Munich as he was going into his hotel, mobbed by Germans chanting “Ali! Ali!” He stood up on top of car, looked very happy and fed off the crowd’s adoration, happily shaking hands. He had a good day.
I notice a lot of Jews have a great need to idolize a black hero figure. I like the poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
You should’ve mentioned that israel is even farther than Paris and snidely remarked, “And you don’t be such a jew.”
Muhammed Ali had his faults, but handled mass celebrity statues much better than those who came after him – Michael Jackson, Britney Speers, Bruce Jenner.
He was a charming man and also had sensible , sound views against race mixing.
Here’s Muhammed Ali schooling some BBC lib guy – (maybe a real faggot like Ali said of the Beatles)
https://rumble.com/v5dedzt-muhammad-ali-interview-on-why-hes-against-race-mixing.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
In 1984 Ali was diagnosed with what is now called Parkinson’s disease.
He actually had Parkinson’s Syndrome which can be caused by a head injury. In other words his boxing career.
A few of those quotes made me legit lol. Great article.
To those that have been censored, I would not become too upset. I have been censored many times in the past, and rightly so. Recently I made some disparaging remarks about a young man who was stabbed in the heart, of which I am deeply ashamed. It just happens sometimes, just keep driving on. 🙃
The quote about The Beatles is almost too good to be true. It’s so good it belongs in the Smithsonian.
The above article gives us many great quotes from Muhammad Ali. He had good judgement, with a gift for the gab. I can’t believe his IQ was only 78. He’s obviously smarter than that. Maybe about 100.
According to this article, the original Muhammad Ali was a warlord from Egypt, whose army enslaved Blacks from Sudan. And the original Cassius Clay (1810-1903) was a White guy, a prominent abolitionist from Kentucky, who joined the Union army during the Civil War. There is a lesson to be learned from these facts.
It’s also true, of course, that Whites are the only race to abolish slavery. No other race would ever have done that. So let’s hear no more talk about “White privilege” and “systemic racism”. That’s just Jew propaganda to attack the White race. And Jews were the biggest slave traders, especially of Whites.
Excellent quotes from Ali. The fact that he is so well known and admired make his words even more powerful.
In reply to Dark Plato on the need for black heroes:
I remember when Terry Roper, the WN leader, described his teaching school, and state inspectors appeared. They showed no interest in his reports of students, the programs they liked, ones that could improved on, or classroom needs. The most important thing they said to Roper was “where are your black heroes? We don’t see any black heroes posted in your classroom.”
“Ali’s response proves that although his IQ was twice tested at 78, he was a genius at making pithy rejoinders…”
Doesn’t it make his IQ 156? 😉
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