The Real Ali
6th June 2016
Gerald Early, a professor of English and African and African-American studies, explodes some of the mythology surrounding the late Muhammad Ali. The first myth is that Ali was a civil rights advocate or activist. Not so.
The Muhammad Ali after whom Cassius Clay re-named himself was, among other things, a proponent of black slavery:
Muhammad Ali next turned his attention to military campaigns independent of the Porte, beginning with the Sudan which he viewed as a valuable addition resource of territory, gold, and slaves. … Ali’s reign in Sudan, and that of his immediate successors, is remembered in Sudan as brutal and heavy-handed, contributing to the popular independence struggle of the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad, in 1881.
What a role model. All of the black people who become Muslim might as well cut to the chase and join the KKK.