why ali refused to fight in vietnam

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:I remember this song:
https://youtu.be/eqMk-AuTDZE

swapna wrote:"Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger." -- ali.

goodcitizn wrote:Ali also said, "No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger."

Incidentally, I once met Mohammed Ali briefly in an airplane from St. Louis to Louiville. He had Parkinson's so couldn't sign an autograph for me but was good enough to give me a pamphlet on Islam that he had pre-signed. I still have it. RIP Ali. You were the greatest!

silvermani wrote:

swapna wrote:"Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger." -- ali.

Were you already in the US when this happened? Did you send a handwritten "correction" of that quote and mail it to the newspaper sacrificing 2.5 meals to save up for the postage stamp?

swapna wrote:

silvermani wrote:

swapna wrote:"Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger." -- ali.

Were you already in the US when this happened? Did you send a handwritten "correction" of that quote and mail it to the newspaper sacrificing 2.5 meals to save up for the postage stamp?

selvamaNi, you may thank me now. the complete, unsanitized quote is the one above, and that's the one that's appropriate now. no one else had posted it.

garam_kuta wrote:

swapna wrote:

silvermani wrote:

swapna wrote:"Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger." -- ali.

Were you already in the US when this happened? Did you send a handwritten "correction" of that quote and mail it to the newspaper sacrificing 2.5 meals to save up for the postage stamp?

selvamaNi, you may thank me now. the complete, unsanitized quote is the one above, and that's the one that's appropriate now. no one else had posted it.

yeah, that's when he tapped you in the head and the rest is history

swapna wrote:

garam_kuta wrote:

swapna wrote:

silvermani wrote:

swapna wrote:"Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger." -- ali.

Were you already in the US when this happened? Did you send a handwritten "correction" of that quote and mail it to the newspaper sacrificing 2.5 meals to save up for the postage stamp?

selvamaNi, you may thank me now. the complete, unsanitized quote is the one above, and that's the one that's appropriate now. no one else had posted it.

yeah, that's when he tapped you in the head and the rest is history

"on the head,"' not "in the head."

swapna wrote:

goodcitizn wrote:Ali also said, "No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger."

Incidentally, I once met Mohammed Ali briefly in an airplane from St. Louis to Louiville. He had Parkinson's so couldn't sign an autograph for me but was good enough to give me a pamphlet on Islam that he had pre-signed. I still have it. RIP Ali. You were the greatest!

did you complain to ali about the hindi "imposition" that you were suffering at the hands of the northpeepals?

goodcitizn wrote:

swapna wrote:

goodcitizn wrote:Ali also said, "No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger."

Incidentally, I once met Mohammed Ali briefly in an airplane from St. Louis to Louiville. He had Parkinson's so couldn't sign an autograph for me but was good enough to give me a pamphlet on Islam that he had pre-signed. I still have it. RIP Ali. You were the greatest!

did you complain to ali about the hindi "imposition" that you were suffering at the hands of the northpeepals?

No, I didn't. He'd have punched me for being unfunny. Instead, I told him about the chitchat I had with your nurse Raniammai as to whether she was afraid you might rape her to which she laughed saying that perpendicularity in your case bordered on hilarity and the only thing she was afraid of was that you might 'stiff' her of her wages. And he guffawed.