My old high school math teacher won gold in track at the Berlin Olympics.  Hitler refused to shake his hand for being black.  My teacher said “Hitler was an asshole.”  I always loved that.

I confess to a sense of deja vu reading this article.  Telling that it had to come from outside the U.S.  Thank you truthdig for reprinting this story of a true hero.

Muhammad Ali refused to be “dragged” into the Corporate War of his time; Vietnam.

His words below:

“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong… they never called me nigger.”

“No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of white slavemasters over dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end.”

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand 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?”

Now compare that to the “corporate Blacks” Athletes of today who “support the troops” while they slaughterer countless Brown people in the Middle East (being lead by a Black man).

Ali had guts; unlike the “cowardly” Blacks (some not all) who hide behind their military service allowing and event helping Global Corporations (mostly White guys) put millions of Brown people to death because they happen to be born with oil under their feet. The fact that a Black man was put in place as a figure head of the “new age of colonialism” only adds insult to injury.