BREAKING: The Greatest Ever: Muhammad Ali Has Passed Away
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"You don't like a nikka talking like this to white people"
Man was one of a kind.
The unadulterated Unanimous scust on The GOAT
face, tho
...when the Feminazi professed to be a Minority in AmeriKKKa
ETHER'd that Crumpet HAWG back across the pond
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I'm saying thowhat?
Just for saying that "Ali 'stood for something' and is a big reason African-American athletes 'can do what we do in the sports world.'"
These white people talking Bron only thinks for himself or some stupid shyt. It's whatever just stupid people.
They being replaced with c00n athletes and low vocabulary rappers on drugs.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
Muhammad Ali and Atlanta
Posted By Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 3:04 PM
For Muhammad Ali, the larger-than-life boxer whose way with words matched his talents in the ring and who died last night, Atlanta was the setting for several memorable moments in the fighter's life.
After being convicted of draft evasion in 1967 and protesting the Vietnam War, Ali was stripped of his title and banned from boxing. He appealed and was free to fight while the case worked its way through the courts. However, Ali had trouble finding places that would allow him to box. In 1970, with the help of Georgia Sen. Leroy Johnson and businessman Jesse Hill, Ali returned to the ring for the first time in an exhibition match against Jerry Quarry at Downtown's Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, today the home of Georgia State University's Dahlberg Hall.
In 2004, CL published "'Chicken Man' and the Cop," a story by Blake Guthrie about a young police officer who worked security that night, a post-fight crime, and a street hustler who later found God. Guthrie writes about the night of the bout:
The auditorium only housed 5,000 people, but millions around the world were paying attention. The New York Times reported that almost 19,500 frenzied fans paid top dollar to watch on closed-circuit TV in Madison Square Garden. Similar reports came from Italy, Spain, London, Beirut and even the Soviet Union, where the broadcast was in one sense a surprise, because professional sports were criticized there as "decadent" capitalism, and in another sense quite natural, because the Soviets lionized Ali for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
It's impossible to quantify the cultural impact of the night on Atlanta. A quarter-century before Ali lit the cauldron to inaugurate the 1996 Olympics, it was he who placed the city in the global sports spotlight by returning to the ring here. And his presence in particular spotlighted the emerging capital of the New South in its new role as a black Mecca.
The Times reported that the bout was like "a page out of the roaring twenties. ... The ladies had beads down to the hem of their maxi-skirts. One man wore an ankle length mink coat, with a high hat of mink to match. ... Diana Ross sat in the forth row, ringside, with a bouffant, Afro-American hair-do that stretched out 10 inches on each side."
Boxing historian Bert Sugar said the fight "marked the greatest collection of black money and black power ever assembled up until that time. Right in the heart of the old Confederacy, it was 'Gone with the Wind' turned upside down."
Many years later, longtime Atlanta Journal-Constitutioncolumnist Furman Bisher wrote: "It was more than a prize fight. It was an event. It made a statement. There has been nothing like it in Atlanta before or since."
Even Ali himself was astounded at the show. Hours before the bell rang, in the lobby of the Regency Hyatt, he quipped in his usual cocksure fashion: "There are so many of my people around, they think we own the hotel." Here's a German TV recounting of the fight. Several recordings of the comeback bout, such as this one, are available on YouTube:
In 1975, Ali faced off against then-Mayor Maynard Jackson in a three-round bout for a local charity, with civil rights activist Julian Bond serving as referee. Jackson managed to land a blow, knocking down the former champion. (Here's an undated photo posted by the Atlanta City Council of Ali leaving Atlanta City Hall. Atlanta City Councilimembers have shared their thoughts on Facebook and Mayor Kasim Reed, who has called Ali one of his heroes, has also paid tribute.)
It was, of course, Ali's lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the 1996 Summer Olympics that is now the most remembered moment of the Atlanta games. The appearance by the champion, who by then was visibly battling Parkinson's Disease, was kept secret from the crowd.
The moment almost didn't happen, the Washington Post says. Atlanta Magazine staff writer and former CL-er Max Blau spoke with Johnnie B. Hall, the now-retired Georgia State Trooper who was assigned to protect the boxer during his stay in Atlanta:
"I was about 10 feet away from him because, if something happened, I was on top of it to make sure it was lit. It took him a little bit longer to walk up there. But he knew what he had to do. He didn’t have any problems. He lit the Olympic torch. It was unbelievable."
The New York Times says Ali died in a Phoenix hospital after being admitted on Friday with what a family spokesman said was a respiratory problem. Ali was 74.
Posted By Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 3:04 PM
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- Muhammad Ali, photographed in 1966
For Muhammad Ali, the larger-than-life boxer whose way with words matched his talents in the ring and who died last night, Atlanta was the setting for several memorable moments in the fighter's life.
After being convicted of draft evasion in 1967 and protesting the Vietnam War, Ali was stripped of his title and banned from boxing. He appealed and was free to fight while the case worked its way through the courts. However, Ali had trouble finding places that would allow him to box. In 1970, with the help of Georgia Sen. Leroy Johnson and businessman Jesse Hill, Ali returned to the ring for the first time in an exhibition match against Jerry Quarry at Downtown's Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, today the home of Georgia State University's Dahlberg Hall.
In 2004, CL published "'Chicken Man' and the Cop," a story by Blake Guthrie about a young police officer who worked security that night, a post-fight crime, and a street hustler who later found God. Guthrie writes about the night of the bout:
The auditorium only housed 5,000 people, but millions around the world were paying attention. The New York Times reported that almost 19,500 frenzied fans paid top dollar to watch on closed-circuit TV in Madison Square Garden. Similar reports came from Italy, Spain, London, Beirut and even the Soviet Union, where the broadcast was in one sense a surprise, because professional sports were criticized there as "decadent" capitalism, and in another sense quite natural, because the Soviets lionized Ali for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
It's impossible to quantify the cultural impact of the night on Atlanta. A quarter-century before Ali lit the cauldron to inaugurate the 1996 Olympics, it was he who placed the city in the global sports spotlight by returning to the ring here. And his presence in particular spotlighted the emerging capital of the New South in its new role as a black Mecca.
The Times reported that the bout was like "a page out of the roaring twenties. ... The ladies had beads down to the hem of their maxi-skirts. One man wore an ankle length mink coat, with a high hat of mink to match. ... Diana Ross sat in the forth row, ringside, with a bouffant, Afro-American hair-do that stretched out 10 inches on each side."
Boxing historian Bert Sugar said the fight "marked the greatest collection of black money and black power ever assembled up until that time. Right in the heart of the old Confederacy, it was 'Gone with the Wind' turned upside down."
Many years later, longtime Atlanta Journal-Constitutioncolumnist Furman Bisher wrote: "It was more than a prize fight. It was an event. It made a statement. There has been nothing like it in Atlanta before or since."
Even Ali himself was astounded at the show. Hours before the bell rang, in the lobby of the Regency Hyatt, he quipped in his usual cocksure fashion: "There are so many of my people around, they think we own the hotel." Here's a German TV recounting of the fight. Several recordings of the comeback bout, such as this one, are available on YouTube:
In 1975, Ali faced off against then-Mayor Maynard Jackson in a three-round bout for a local charity, with civil rights activist Julian Bond serving as referee. Jackson managed to land a blow, knocking down the former champion. (Here's an undated photo posted by the Atlanta City Council of Ali leaving Atlanta City Hall. Atlanta City Councilimembers have shared their thoughts on Facebook and Mayor Kasim Reed, who has called Ali one of his heroes, has also paid tribute.)
It was, of course, Ali's lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the 1996 Summer Olympics that is now the most remembered moment of the Atlanta games. The appearance by the champion, who by then was visibly battling Parkinson's Disease, was kept secret from the crowd.
The moment almost didn't happen, the Washington Post says. Atlanta Magazine staff writer and former CL-er Max Blau spoke with Johnnie B. Hall, the now-retired Georgia State Trooper who was assigned to protect the boxer during his stay in Atlanta:
"I was about 10 feet away from him because, if something happened, I was on top of it to make sure it was lit. It took him a little bit longer to walk up there. But he knew what he had to do. He didn’t have any problems. He lit the Olympic torch. It was unbelievable."
The New York Times says Ali died in a Phoenix hospital after being admitted on Friday with what a family spokesman said was a respiratory problem. Ali was 74.
Crazy at one time you had malcolm x, MLK Jr, muhammad Ali not pandering to the white man and having a big platform In a non cell phone, non social media era where you could het lynched or a bullet in your head for your views. And malcolm x nor muhammad were not considered "educated" by white man standards. Dudes were twenties and mid thirties eloquently sh%$ting on cacs.
Dudes today just laffy taffy whip and nae nae and will be called niqqers by bosses but will still suit up for the game
Dudes today just laffy taffy whip and nae nae and will be called niqqers by bosses but will still suit up for the game
Black men and a powerful message goes hand to hand. We truly can change this social order if we had unity.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
Ali lighting the Olympic Torch to begin the 96 Olympics in Atlanta
I legit shed tears watching this
Long Live The Mamba
I make sh*t shake up in broad day
I done wrestled a alligator
The GOAT is now rope a dope cats upstairs
The GOAT is now rope a dope cats upstairs
Ali was Michael Jordan, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X all rolled in one.
He was one of a kind.
He was one of a kind.
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The kang
Rigby.
The #1 Rated Mixtape of all Time
"You don't like a nikka talking like this to white people"
Man was one of a kind.
Anyone talking like this nowadays gets killed or black balled
We need more innerly strong warriors like this man
Ain't no boundaries in heaven. 30 round boxing match.
Devastated y'all....
The baby-boomer, civil rights era blacks are dying...what are we left with?
Former crackhead of the 80s and c00n rappers. They trying to erase our history and make us into permanent minstrels.
