Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1781338, member: 780"] Ishmel Reed's OpEd Piece in the NYT had it right in the title: " [SIZE=6][B][SIZE=4]Muhammad Ali: Worshiped. Misunderstood. Exploited[/SIZE].[/B][/SIZE]" I've read some of that worship on here. As a Boxer - He was quite simply the best ever. He was a heavyweight with the moves, speed and reaction of a middleweight. As a Showman and Entertainer - He captured the attention of the country and there were those that loved him and many that did not. Some of those that disliked him didn't like his brashness. Athletes at that time were uniformly humble. "I am the Greatest", set millions of sets of teeth on edge. "They all must fall in the round I call." was more boastful than anything anyone had ever heard from a sports figure. Some of those who disliked him were on the other side of the political fence and the nascent culture war from where he was. The Nation was deeply-divided in the late 1960's . Exploited? - without question. [/QUOTE]