← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · JoseyWales
Thread ID: 20415 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-09-26
2005-09-26 19:04 | User Profile
wait till the jacksons and sharptons get wind of this, if they havent already. [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5294201,00.html[/url] :lol:
2005-09-27 01:42 | User Profile
How come we haven't heard anything about this?
2005-09-27 13:44 | User Profile
probably that would mean putting pressure on the saudis to give out 40acres and a mule to all their hired hands
:smoke:
2005-09-27 17:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=JoseyWales]probably that would mean putting pressure on the saudis to give out 40acres and a mule to all their hired hands
:smoke:[/QUOTE] What good is a mule on 40 acres of rock and sand? :holiday:
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2005-09-27 18:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=BlueBonnet]How come we haven't heard anything about this?[/QUOTE]Americans, particularly blacks, who form their thoughts from exposure to television, have long had items deemed injurious to their composure withheld from public debate.
From my book:[QUOTE][B][CENTER]Muhammad Ali also known as Cassius Clay[/CENTER][/B]
For many Americans the most famous of the draft dodgers of the Vietnam War was Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion who was born with the name Cassius Clay. His often quoted remark that "I got no quarrel with them Vietcong" has appeared in almost every publication except Bartlett's. , He has been lauded by the film-maker Spike Lee who said "He had a lot of heart and courage. He refused to fight in the war". A guest columnist in the New York [I]Times[/I] assured readers that Ali believed all war to be wrong. A surprising exception to the uniform applause Ali has received from the usually friendly writers was by sportswriter Robert Lipsyte of the New York [I]Times[/I]. He informed readers that Ali's opposition to the war in Vietnam was not an informed principle, but based solely on his leader Elijah Muhammad's refusal to be inducted during World War II and his subsequent jailing. Ali did not know where Vietnam was.
When he was reclassified 1A, he whined, "Why me?". As the heavyweight champion, Ali pouted that his taxes "buy a lot of bullets, at least three jet bombers a year". Mr. Lipsyte discourteously reminded readers that Ali received much encouragement from left-leaning, integrationist, Christian and atheistic groups Ali privately derided. More than a decade before Mr. Lipsyte had written a book about Ali in which Ali complained that there were thousands of 1A young men in Louisville, and the government did not need him, especially as he paid in taxes from his fights the salaries of 50,000 fighting men.
[B][I]When making his statements about the nobility and dignity the Muslim religion conferred on him, Mr. Ali obviously chose to forget, if he ever knew, that less than five years before his conversion. the spiritual homeland of his new religion, Saudi Arabia, in 1962 had finally gotten around to outlawing slavery[/I].[/B] As with so many of his ilk, the real and former Cassius Clay surfaced in 1988 in Houston, Texas where he attended the Republican Convention and proclaimed his loyalty to the ticket of George Bush and Dan Quayle. Mr. Ali had not grown spiritually and intellectually to steal a phrase from the handbook of the politically correct. In the following year he went to Britain and told the natives that Jesus was "black". This utterance never received much comment in the United States, but should be remembered by those who doubt his intellectual candor.[/QUOTE]I often have asked myself why Saudi Arabia with its huge slave population has not been censured. Sportswriters in America have never brought this to the attention of their readership about the pitiful ignorance and stupidity of CC.
2005-09-27 19:50 | User Profile
Saudi Arabia is the Middle Eastern version of hillbillies who suddenly get rich. The combination of no class and way too much money creates spectacles that make me wince.