Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather Jr. Reacts To Muhammad Ali's Passing

[MisanthropicNY]

Ali beat Foreman when he was probably the most dominant heavyweight in boxing history at the time and was an underdog...

Ali fought and beat... Frazier and Norton...

Floyd beat Canelo at a catchweight... Floyd "beat" Manny after Manny was KO'd by Marquez and past his prime...

What win does Floyd have in his career that even is close to matching what Ali did?

[Ruthless One]

Floyd's words are actually more meaningful than you all are giving him credit for, he's letting you know that Ali made it possible for his success.

This is what I got out of it too.

[Robbie Barrett]

[Swarmfan]

It's true. There is a crabs-in-a-bucket-mentality problem in the black community. If a black person pursues education and doesn't speak like an uneducated schmuck, he is called white washed or an uncle tom -- in 2016. I've had black guys tell me they were told that they weren't black enough.

Currently the primary ways blacks move up socio-economically is to sell drugs, rap, or join the NFL or NBA. Black doctors, lawyers, and guys like Neil deGrasse Tyson are outliers.

Perhaps I was mistaken about you. Any professional sports player is essentially by definition an outlier. They are a minuscule fraction of the population no matter how you slice it. Moreover becoming a household name as a scientist is is orders of magnitude rarer than even that regardless of race. It is rare to become a famous anything, I find it exceptionally strange that you seem to think that there are fewer black doctors and scientists and other successful professionals than there are pro athletes. It is to wildly overestimate how lucrative drug dealing is to even put that on your list. There was a study some time ago that showed that on average you can make more money working at McDonalds than you can being a drug dealer. I also find the idea that pro athletes contribute meaningfully to society to be misguided, I'd say that nurses, teachers or even garbage men are of more pragmatic use. I challenge you to compare the amount of black pro athletes to black teacher or nurses and then tell me that the primary way that black people contribute is by become a pro athlete.

[HarvardBlue]

It's true. There is a crabs-in-a-bucket-mentality problem in the black community. If a black person pursues education and doesn't speak like an uneducated schmuck, he is called white washed or an uncle tom -- in 2016. I've had black guys tell me they were told that they weren't black enough.

Currently the primary ways blacks move up socio-economically is to sell drugs, rap, or join the NFL or NBA. Black doctors, lawyers, and guys like Neil deGrasse Tyson are outliers.

Come on punchr, you're better than this.

If these are the only black people you know then you need to expand your world view just a little bit.

Ali was a great man. People hated him in more ways than any comments Mayweather made.

Let the man rest in peace.

[punchr]

In a way Floyd represents the world today, obsessed with money, no integrity, no cultural identity, dumb as a doorknob.

Ali represents one of the truly Great cultural heroes of the 20th century, He comes from an era rich with truly great men trying to make the world a better place. whether it be Martin Luther King, John lennon, Malcolm X.
Ali certainly deserves to be mentioned alongside those names.

How many heroes are there today?

Kind of depressing.

Ali wasn't a cultural hero. Martin Luther King was. Ali took punches for a living. He was excellent at talking trash and exciting racial tensions between whites and blacks. Most of his views were dumb as f*** and people who weren't part of the herd sniffed out his bullshit.

[mlac]

Ali wasn't a cultural hero. Martin Luther King was. Ali took punches for a living. He was excellent at talking trash and exciting racial tensions between whites and blacks. Most of his views were dumb as f*** and people who weren't part of the herd sniffed out his bullshit.

you're going on the ignore list.
well done.

[punchr]

Perhaps I was mistaken about you. Any professional sports player is essentially by definition an outlier. They are a minuscule fraction of the population no matter how you slice it. Moreover becoming a household name as a scientist is is orders of magnitude rarer than even that regardless of race. It is rare to become a famous anything, I find it exceptionally strange that you seem to think that there are fewer black doctors and scientists and other successful professionals than there are pro athletes. It is to wildly overestimate how lucrative drug dealing is to even put that on your list. There was a study some time ago that showed that on average you can make more money working at McDonalds than you can being a drug dealer. I also find the idea that pro athletes contribute meaningfully to society to be misguided, I'd say that nurses, teachers or even garbage men are of more pragmatic use. I challenge you to compare the amount of black pro athletes to black teacher or nurses and then tell me that the primary way that black people contribute is by become a pro athlete.

You're talking about non-inner city blacks lol.

Overall, blacks biggest impediment is their toxic culture. Until they address that as a community, they won't advance.

Also, black teachers and nurses, etc. are not the norm in the black community. Whereas for hispanics and Asians it is. The faction of ****** toxic rap culture is the majority of African Americans. Until it's the minority blacks will stay low on the socio-economic ladder.

[SUBZER0ED]

Vietnam was more or less a continuation of WW2 since some of the same madmen (Soviets) started setting up puppet governments in the vacuum left by Germany & Japan and the US had to contain the spread to keep the cold war cold.

Biggest differences were:
1. Post atomic bomb, war simply stopped being massive pitched battles and turned into ugly police work.
2. Americans themselves -- very few sympathized with ****sm while, by then, Soviet propaganda and political groups had made communism very popular with young Americans.

Still see the effects of this today, which is why the swastika is universally banned and the hammer & sickle is worn around campus, despite being the more genocidal of the two.

Ali was only a hero if you subscribe to a certain set of political views I suppose. I don't subscribe to those views. I'm not a supporter of communist sympathizers, radical Islamic sects, etc. Not a hero.

WWII was a war against fascism. The conflict in Viet Nam was a fight against the perceived threat of Communism. Last time I checked, the Soviets were our allies during WWII, so I don't see how 'Nam is a continuation of that war.

You do realize that more bombs were dropped in Viet Nam during that conflict than in all of Europe during WWII? Nuclear attack was considered, but shelved due to fear of starting WWIII with The USSR & the PRC.

I wasn't necessarily calling Ali a hero, but I do agree with his refusal to fight in 'Nam. That conflict was a horrible waste of life, time, money & resources, & WE LOST. And the boogiemen Commies didn't take over the world, despite our loss.

[PoserExposer]

The true TBE & GOAT! RIP Muhammad Ali.