Muhammad Ali Jr. said he did not believe his father would have supported the current Black Lives Matter movement, calling participants in the movement "racist,"
The New York Post reported Saturday.
"I think it's racist," Ali Jr., the legendary boxer's only biological son. He added: "It's not just Black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody's life matters. God loves everyone — he never singled anyone out. Killing is wrong no matter who it is."
''My father would have said, 'They ain't nothing but devils," Ali Jr, 47, told The New York Post. "My father said, 'all lives matter.' I don't think he'd agree."
Ali Jr. pointed toward some of the more destructive actions of some protestors in recent weeks as part of his own dissatisfaction with the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Black Lives Matter is not a peaceful protest. Antifa never wanted it peaceful. I would take them all out. It's a racial statement," he said of Black Lives Matter. "It's pitting black people against everyone else. It starts racial things to happen; I hate that."
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Ali's most famous child, television personality and retired boxer Laila Ali, made similar statement, saying, "All lives matter."
"Yes, Black lives matter. Yes, white lives matter, asian lives matter. All lives matter," the boxing world champion said. "And that's kind of what my focus is. His grandsons are even having to fight two generations later, but we're going to keep at it because it's all about equality for Black people and all people," she said.
Ali Jr. defended the police and said they "don't wake up and think, 'I'm going to kill a n----r today or kill a white man. I never had a bad scene with a cop. They've always been nice and protect me. I don't have a problem with them," he told The New York Post.
While he said the former Minneapolis Police Officer should not have killed Floyd, he said there was more to the story.
"The officer was wrong with killing that person, but people don't realize there was more footage than what they showed. The guy resisted arrest, the officer was doing his job, but he used the wrong tactic," he said, adding he believed that antifa, the leaderless decentralized group of left-wing activists, had been responsible for turning protests violent and that he agreed with the president that they should be classified as terrorist groups.
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