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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:31 PM Jun 2020

?!? Muhammed Ali's son says dad would be vs BLM, for Trump?!?

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?!? Muhammed Ali's son says dad would be vs BLM, for Trump?!? (Original Post) bobbieinok Jun 2020 OP

Spotlight-seeking, maybe? Aristus Jun 2020 #1

It would be hard to be Ali's son and know that you are not strong like him but a weakling dawg day Jun 2020 #2

Ali had 9 kids. You'd expect one to have missed what their dad stood for. Hoyt Jun 2020 #3

According to several press reports StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #5

That's too bad, but it explains things. Hoyt Jun 2020 #10

It's going to be a lot of fun StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #4

Because he's hoping the Trump Train is paying EffieBlack Jun 2020 #6

Clearly, he doesn't know that Bettie Jun 2020 #16

That's right up there with the "MLK was a Republican" narrative... regnaD kciN Jun 2020 #7

IIRC, most blacks voted GOP until 1960--MLK in jail, JFK sent wife letter, Nixon didn't bobbieinok Jun 2020 #8

Southern Democrats - Dixiecrats - had little in common with today's Dems, Hoyt Jun 2020 #11

LBJ said dems would lose south for at least a generation after the Civil Rights Act bobbieinok Jun 2020 #12

I wonder if he knew it would be this long Polybius Jun 2020 #13

Probably. He had a pretty good feel for politics, esp of south bobbieinok Jun 2020 #14

Dixiecrats are pretty much the base of today's republican party JI7 Jun 2020 #15

After being punched in the head 1000 times lame54 Jun 2020 #9

Aristus

(66,734 posts)

1. Spotlight-seeking, maybe?

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:32 PM

Jun 2020

Trump is the apotheosis of everything his father fought against in the Sixties.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

2. It would be hard to be Ali's son and know that you are not strong like him but a weakling

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:35 PM

Jun 2020

So of course all you can do then is pretend your father was like you.

He must not have heard that his father risked his career, his freedom, and his life in order to protest a war that he knew disproportionately killed black men. That is, Ali believed... Black Lives Mattered.

And Ali, near the end of his life, criticized Trump's Muslim ban.

Don't think he was a MAGAt.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Ali had 9 kids. You'd expect one to have missed what their dad stood for.

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:35 PM

Jun 2020

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)

5. According to several press reports

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:37 PM

Jun 2020

they were estranged for the last 10 years of Ali's life.

I wonder why ...

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

10. That's too bad, but it explains things.

Reply to StarfishSaver (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 05:37 PM

Jun 2020

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)

4. It's going to be a lot of fun

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:37 PM

Jun 2020

watching Trumpsters start embracing the Black Muslim estranged son of Muhammad Ali, who will no doubt be the featured speaker at the next Trump Two Hours of Hate Rally.

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)

6. Because he's hoping the Trump Train is paying

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:46 PM

Jun 2020

Muhammed Ali’s son plans legal action to get slice of father’s £50m fortune

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9648767/muhammed-alis-son-dad-fortune/

Family Ties: The Story Behind Muhammad Ali's Estranged Son

When Muhammad Ali passed away on Friday night, it seems like the whole world mourned. One person who had mixed feelings about the icon's passing, however, is his own son, 43-year-old Muhammad Ali Jr.

The two had been estranged for years, with Ali Jr. living on the poverty line in one of the most notorious neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. He claims he felt very little of his father's fortune and fame.

In an interview that took place two years ago, Ali Jr. admitted that he did not care what happened to his father, and was more concerned with taking care of himself after being cast aside by his family. Despite this, he was reportedly by his father's side at the time of his passing. As family spokesman Bog Gunnel emphasized to WHAS 11, "They [the family] were all there to say their final goodbyes... Every member of the family was there."
https://www.bet.com/news/national/2016/06/06/ali-s-son-lives-in-poverty.html

Bettie

(16,213 posts)

16. Clearly, he doesn't know that

Reply to EffieBlack (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 06:44 PM

Jun 2020

Trump NEVER pays. Anyone! (Well, except himself)

regnaD kciN

(26,066 posts)

7. That's right up there with the "MLK was a Republican" narrative...

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:54 PM

Jun 2020

...which wasn't even true, needless to say.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

8. IIRC, most blacks voted GOP until 1960--MLK in jail, JFK sent wife letter, Nixon didn't

Reply to regnaD kciN (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 05:07 PM

Jun 2020

Taylor Branch discusses the letter/non-letter effect in his MLK trilogy

In the 2000 GOP primary (in MI, I think) many blacks crossed over to vote for McCain in the GOP primary

Hannity was enraged. He was screaming over and over--when have blacks EVER voted for a republican?

The lack of knowledge about American history revealed is mind-numbing!

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

11. Southern Democrats - Dixiecrats - had little in common with today's Dems,

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #8)

Tue Jun 23, 2020, 05:48 PM

Jun 2020

except they we’re thankful for Social Security keeping all the poor farmers from starving.

White wingers love to say that Democrats are the racists because of that, forgetting Dixiecrats became GOPers after the Civil Rights Act.