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Originally posted by Willie Pep 229 View Post
I am suggesting his racism is against white fighters.
Who cares what one man says. You discredit a great champion like Jeffries based on the opinion of one old man who would say anything for attention. Shame on you.
Fleischer was not racist against white fighters. Absolutely absurd statement. He used his pen to push to correct a racist AMERICAN TRADITION. THAT TRADITION, passed down from one heavyweight champion to another, was not to allow any black heavyweight to have a chance to win that championship. Aside from the potential for riots as seen post Jeffries Johnson a black man as world heavyweight champion indicates their physical superiority over the entire white race.
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Originally posted by HOUDINI563 View Post
Wrong. Fleischer was not implying Jeffries was afraid to fight blacks as he fought more than any other heavyweight champion for decades. Jeffries did not want to face societies backlash if he caved into growing pressure to fight one of the leading black contenders whether he won or lost. Rather than face this he retired.
Fleischer was not racist against white fighters. Absolutely absurd statement. He used his pen to push to correct a racist AMERICAN TRADITION. THAT TRADITION, passed down from one heavyweight champion to another, was not to allow any black heavyweight to have a chance to win that championship. Aside from the potential for riots as seen post Jeffries Johnson a black man as world heavyweight champion indicates their physical superiority over the entire white race.
How was I suspose to draw that conclusion from the quote above?
You say he implied much but I can't discern those things from what you wrote.
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Originally posted by HOUDINI563 View Post
Fleicher was no racist. Period. He actively pushed and pushed hard to allow black heavyweights to fight for the title.
Fleischer used the phrase REAL REASON. I have no reason to believe he was wrong or lying. He knew that time period better than anyone today by a very long stretch.
Jeffries was on record late in his career as being fed up with being champ, training, and wanting to retire. The Hart/Johnson result prompted that retirement when it was obvious there were no relevant contenders left. Langford, Jeannette, McVey were aspiring prospects and Wills not even a pro, and point in fact Langford famously took out a full page ad challenging all relevant heavies save Jeffries.
Did Nat accuse Jeff of ducking Hart, the victor of JJohnson?
Of course not. Nat was speaking out of context as an old man with uncertain faculties in a fading timeline of existence.
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Originally posted by 4truth View PostAnyway, if you don’t favor Holmes over everyone on that list (keeping in mind that version of Ali was far from prime), you don’t know shyt about Larry Holmes
He's 1-0 with the sparest 1 point fractional% SD over the new WBC Administrative champ who never won a world title.
Ya could look it up!
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Originally posted by Willie Pep 229 View Post
"As per Fleischer in his book “50 years at Ringside” the REAL reason Jeffries retired was the rise of the great black heavyweights Johnson, Langford, Jeanette and McVey."
How was I suspose to draw that conclusion from the quote above?
You say he implied much but I can't discern those things from what you wrote.
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Originally posted by HOUDINI563 View Post
You jumped to the lowest possible denominator. The dynamics of what was going on during that time period are well understood.
What nonsense!
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Originally posted by StarshipTrooper View Post
No, you went the "Pity me I'm a poor oppressed whyte!" route. Get real.
The best one was when I was a stage hand. I was the stand-in for the speaker and we were gelling the lights with color. I looked good under the colors we chose, then the speaker, a white guy from Nebraska showed up, lol stood under the lights and looked like death warmed over. It turns out I'm yellow skinned. A real eye opener for me.
What I am tried of, is reading about how no white fighter during the color line era is given credit for his effort because he didn't fight the great black fighters - the posts are tirersome, redundant and full of prejudice - there is this anti-white vibe on this forum when it comes to white champions before Louis' tenure. It's overdone.
Now back to me . . . This is great, I got Lefty and Queen who think I am too Woke and now you think I'm a whining *****ite. That makes me feel great, because what I really am is a misanthrope.
Anyway my real complaint is that Houdini loves to tell history by quotes and I hate history via quotes. Everyone lies, or shapes the world to benefit themselves and then after a little time passes and the dust settles on the bookcover people somehow think it has become the truth.
History by quotes is bogus and lazy.Last edited by Willie Pep 229; 04-04-2022, 09:09 AM.
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