Black History Speaks: Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, the former Cassius Clay, finds his new role as a Black Muslim minister more satisfying than his former one as a boxer because he is now working for others and not just for himself. He has no desire to return to the ring and beat up his brother or someone else s brother since it is against his Black Muslim faith for him to participate in any vicious sport or any other sport. His only reason to return to the ring would be to rid himself of some 250, 000 in debts for alimony and costs involved in the legal case coming from his refusing induction into the armed forces. Boasting that he is still the greatest, he cites as evidence the crowds of people who wait for him wherever he appears as a speaker. He says that although he has been stripped of his world heavyweight boxing title because of his religious convictions, people still know that he is the to popular opinion, he claims that the Black Muslims do not hate whites that the hate im
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