Here's why I REALLY hate Muhammad Ali.

[PugilistTom]

I refused to go to Afghanistan . My 2nd re-enlistment was coming up and I had already done one deployment. The captain of my company kept trying to get me to re-enlist but I was like “*** dat”. I was getting older and wiser. I’m not gonna keep supporting bs azz wars started by white men to kill non white people. So I got out and never looked back. Not an ALI fan but he was right for refusal of the draft.

As a soldier, it is your responsibility to take orders and fight. Nothing more.

[PugilistTom]

For almost the first time, I agree with you, although not about Tyson. THAT was an obvious scam.

Further to what I wrote ,answering Pugilist Tom, both Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis "went to war" to serve their country. They served by giving exhibitions, which were much appreciated. Barney Ross went as a fighting soldier. But he was retired by then, no longer a champion. Yet he also could have given exhibitions.....

Yep he could have given exhibitions which would have greatly boosted morale.

But what did he do instead? Stayed home and complained the entire time while young men were getting slaughtered.

He gets no respect from me at all.

[Inspired]

even today i can't respect a black man in america for joining the american armed forces unless he was desperate to earn a living.
the wars only serve the interests of the elite and use american tax payers money to fund them.
the war in iraq cost over 2trillion...reality is most of that was laundering through third party contractors.

[NachoMan]

Countless Americans died in the Vietnam war. He refused to do his part and join his brothers when they needed him the most. He would have greatly boosted their morale and perhaps even turned the tide in the war for a victory if he had joined.

But instead he spoke out against the war and refused to fight in it.

So while his brothers were getting slaughtered, he was in his mansion living the good life and impregnating women all day.

How anyone can respect this guy is bizarre.

1. He’s dead. Let it go.
2. Why do you blindly support ****** wars?
3. “Support the Troops” is a political slogan. It’s not patriotic. It really means “Support My War.”
4. Ali had no brother who got slaughtered in Nam. His only brother, Rahman, is still alive today.
5. Do you seriously believe that Muhammad Ali’s support could’ve changed the outcome of the Vietnam war?

[PunchMeIDareYou]

Countless Americans died in the Vietnam war. He refused to do his part and join his brothers when they needed him the most. He would have greatly boosted their morale and perhaps even turned the tide in the war for a victory if he had joined.

But instead he spoke out against the war and refused to fight in it.

So while his brothers were getting slaughtered, he was in his mansion living the good life and impregnating women all day.

How anyone can respect this guy is bizarre.

Have YOU served in the military?

[Inspired]

Joe Louis, fought in WW2..look how they treated him.

[GhostofDempsey]

Let's face it, he wasn't the brightest athlete ever. I can respect his stance on the war. He paid a hefty price for it too. But a guy who claimed to be so "woke", independent and free-thinking, was a puppet for the Nation of Islam for so long.

[Lomadeaux]

Fighting in an unjust war for a racist country? I wouldn't either. No way I'm dying for America.

If you live in America, there's good news. You can go somewhere else.

[Thuglife Nelo]

Troll Thread Much...

[buddyr]

As a soldier, it is your responsibility to take orders and fight. Nothing more.

that's why I got the *** out. I'm nobody's slave. That was almost 20 years ago. Let them hillbilly inbred boys and mental midgets go fight these bs wars