Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed

[Addison]

Yeah I was curious to see if they would mention this as well. I saw that in one of the deleted scenes of American Gangster that Lucas gave Joe $50,000 to pay toward his tax debt, I wonder if its true?

That is the way I understand it.

[-Antonio-]

Just saw it now, powerful film indeed. I had seen a doc on Louis before, so I wasn't expecting to learn anything new, but I did. I had no idea he was the first black man to participate in a PGA event. And this one really went into detail about how much of an impact he had.

Gripping stuff...You cant help but feel for what happened to the guy.

And the footage of Ali calling him an Uncle Tom. The hell was that all about?

[King Koopa]

Just saw it now, powerful film indeed. I had seen a doc on Louis before, so I wasn't expecting to learn anything new, but I did. I had no idea he was the first black man to participate in a PGA event. And this one really went into detail about how much of an impact he had.

Gripping stuff...You cant help but feel for what happened to the guy.

And the footage of Ali calling him an Uncle Tom. The hell was that all about?

Ali said a lot of things that were repulsive but that he later apologized for...the NOI had a STRONG influence on him at the time

He had the balls to say women who couldn't reproduce were worthless (not exact quote)...but he later recanted on that later in life

[-Antonio-]

It was good, but honestly guys.. haven't we heard this story told before? IMO that documentary was a fancy rehashing of a bunch of other stories on Joe.

I had seen another doc on him before. It was a movie focusing on him, Dempsey, and Ali; which was good in it's own right. This one getting the HBO treatment was a lot better though, and it went into better detail of his impact on the black community. The visuals and stories of how the blacks reacted to the fights were interesting.

Here it is.



http://youtube.com/watch?v=HXXYT0Requ8 part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k43XjfYLvvk part 3
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oQ48YAzPlz0 part 4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b1dbBKi38VE part 5
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0BwRBldSluM part 6

Thanks for posting. I've taken an interest to Liston recently as the avatar shows.

[BmoreBrawler]

Ron Paul is a racist..

Disproven 20 years ago. Get with the times.

[Mike Tyson77]

Joe Louis...one of the baddest of all timeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!