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Originally posted by Evil Chris
I'm sure you're right Nick, but how long did that last?
He proved himself practically overnight and made everyone a believer.
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No he ididn't.
When he beat Liston for the heavyweight title , they thought it was a sham thought Liston would beat him in the rematch.
Then they thought Liston laid down.
The white majority were waiting with baited breath for him to be beat
Yadda Yadda...
They stripped him of his title. ( yeah the White majority loved him at that time. NOT!!! He was a member of the Nation of Islam who at that time and fronkly even to this date is viewed by many whites as ummm...scary)
"No Viet Cong ever called me Nigger" - Ali
He only became universally loved and admired in his latter career.
And he did that in fact in part by intentionally doing this "Look folks , I is the good nigga , that Joe Frasier / George Foreman is the big dumb ugly uneducated black man"
A fact for which he apologised to Joe frasier for later in life.
One could say he became the darling of the United States once he was knocked out by Parkinsons and the once proud articulate strong man became a shuffling shadow of his former self.