My favorite quote from Johnson was that the way he dealt with racism was to “Act like it doesn’t exist.
We want Muhammad Ali to be “The Greatest” so we don’t have to be…
I find it fascinating that two of the most despised things in American culture have been Blackness (see the documentary about great boxer Jack Johnson (Unforgivable Blackness by Ken Burns) and now being a Muslim, yet Americans love the late Black Muslim Muhammad Ali!…what is going on here? Oddly, Ali was a hero for the reason that so many others …