River Runner posted:UANDURINE:
Obama and I remember Ali differently; I remember just another draft dodger.
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The way I remembered, Cassius Clay changed name to Muhammad Ali, and claimed that his religion (Muslim) didn't permit him to kill another human being. Thus became a Conscious Objector due to Religious Beliefs. and he got out of going to Nam. (aka.. draft dodger)
Muslims today & back then, sure don't mind murdering other human beings...
https://joebrunoonboxing.wordp...d-ali-is-not-a-hero/
Excerpts:
Ali’s refusal to be inducted wasn’t a black/white thing like he and his people tried to shove down our throats. Hundreds of thousand of white men chickened out and avoided service in Vietnam too.
Ali claimed to be a Muslim minister as his exemption to get out of the military draft. Ali was a minister like Al Sharpton is a Reverend and like Dr. Irwin Corey is a physician. The draft board rightfully saw through Ali’s charade and classified him one A. But this man, who had already gotten rich though the American system of free enterprise, adamantly refused to take the one symbolic step forward on the day he was drafted.
To me, that was not only traitorous, it was darn personal.For whatever flimsy reasons he and white-hating Muslim sect tried to concoct, Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces, and to me and millions like me, that’s the bottom line. You disgrace the memory of tens of thousands heroic Americans, black, white or whatever, who died in Vietnam and in every war before and since Vietnam, when you glorify the draft dodger, scoundrel, reprobate and the four-marriage adulterer Muhammad Ali definitely was. The pitiful condition he’s in now is sad, but has no relevance to the sins he committed back when he was, as he defiantly proclaimed —-The Greatest.