<story><title>Muhammad Ali has died</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceyhunkazel</author><text>He is a man who have a heart that bigger than his fists. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>I grew up in Louisville in the 60&amp;#x27;s and can attest to the poor state of race relations there.&lt;p&gt;My white grandparents had a house in the middle of the black part of town.  And when I say &amp;quot;black&amp;quot; I mean except for my grandparents and my family, we never saw another white person anywhere close to their house, when we visited.  We&amp;#x27;d make the trip from the suburbs to their house every Sunday to take them food and hang out on the porch, in good weather, or the living room in bad weather.  They were in their 80&amp;#x27;s and had lived in that house for 50+ years, and they saw no reason to leave.  They and their neighbors were dirt poor.&lt;p&gt;As a kid, the difference between were I lived and this place I visited once a week was striking.  It shaped how I felt about poor people and race relations, in general.  The weird thing is that when I went there, that neighborhood felt more comfortable and friendly to me than mine in the burbs.&lt;p&gt;I remember when Ali refused to be drafted.  There was a lot of anger in our home town.  It help me form my feelings toward war and service.  I don&amp;#x27;t think that internal dialog would have happened had he not done what he did.</text></comment>
<story><title>Muhammad Ali has died</title><url>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceyhunkazel</author><text>He is a man who have a heart that bigger than his fists. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adnam</author><text>Well he also said that Jews are devils, the mixing of the races is an abomination and that homosexuality is a white man’s disease.</text></comment>