Recently I've watched several documentaries about the 1960s & the Vietnam War -- lots that's relevant today
This one notion stuck with me more than anything else I learned
I'd never heard it or considered this before
This one notion stuck with me more than anything else I learned
I'd never heard it or considered this before
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Thank you, I hope your in good health.
We should have never been over there at all.
Unfortunately too many Americans don't know more than what they saw in Forest Gump.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
Trump did the same thing, but in the shadows, because he’s a COWARD.
Ali's voice may have done more than any other to end that war.
He was a great and still under-appreciated man.
She went back to school & did her MA after the divorce. She wrote her thesis on Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Her sister taught 2nd grade in public schools for 30 years; at home, she uses/d the "n" word regularly and has turned into a nearly psychotic Trump supporter.
She has an MA. So do 2 of her kids-- who also teach children. All have TDS 😱
I and my mother are prime examples.
& I have two distant cousins who avoided the dysfunction.
My uncle told me I deserved to be raped b/c I supported HRC.
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At the time, Ali’s name was mud. He was ridiculed as a coward.
Only time proved him right.
https://youtu.be/64VULejzNhc?si=mVvUIzh62gEZEQie
https://bsky.app/profile/zadett.bsky.social/post/3lpg6zc4xz22f
Our "leaders" should be leading massive protests in the streets every fucking day. But no. We're too fucking busy staring into our phones.
We deserve what we get. Want better? Be better.
People tend to resent it when you're right, especially if you're talking about the future.
Nothing like that happening yet
Back then they brought out water hoses, barricades & rifles. We haven't seen that yet
More people, white people in particular, need to stand up!!!
I should have realized how incredibly over-the-top, unbudgingly racist our country is when sports superstars did not back Kaepernick and kneel alongside him.
Every word is right. Unfortunately, as true today as it was then.
UK citizen, old enough to have been drafted if I had lived in the US.
I hope prominent personalities today see how this man was on the RIGHT side of history.
Legend.
I'm white. Growing up in a small white village, despite mom's best efforts to instill a sense of justice within me, the prevailing view: Ali was Anti-American. With age, experience, and knowledge, I've come to realize he was courageous and correct.
I was much older when I realized what he was talking about.
Amazing that you, an American, had never heard it before.
Just very surprised that one of the most famous quotes from one of the most famous humans ever to have lived appears to have completely passed you by.
Think that says more about you than it does about me but what do I know..?
Dead men tell no tales, but they spoke a resounding Truth to Power that was not tolerated.
Wash, rinse, repeat... and here we go again.
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There are only cowards and greedy fuckers around 😞😞😞
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/terry-foster-muhammad-ali-was-once-the-most-hated-man-in-america/
Never meet your heroes...
Is a bullshit opinion of folk that never met Ali.
Still ranks as one of the greatest days of my life.
Absolutely enraptured by the warmth of his hug... Absolutely terrified by how his eyes could chisel a stare.
Absolutely humbled by him.
It was quite emotional.
I met him in the very early 90s. He was showing some signs of Parkinsons but was mostly very lucid.
But he had a laugh that would rattle snakes out of the trees, and a smile that just swallowed you up.
And he was big. His presence. 💖