Requiem: for "Ali"

"Long Live"

THE GREATEST

"Muhammad Ali"

1942 - 2016

What would be a "Fitting" TRIBUTE?  We can ALL "stand together", and DEFEAT his ENEMIES??

They are still "with us"; and, have only grown stronger since the early 1960's; when "Cassius" took his stand against Racism and the Vietnam War!  Today, they're busy "building a wall", and "banning all Muslims"!  They are also deepening the Crisis they created; by "strangling" our Country and cutting off its Funding in the House of Representatives.  Both Houses of Congress, under Republican Rule, have united, under TRUMP, to get rid of the Constitutional Rules for Governing our Country.

He was born: Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.: a name, from prominent Kentucky Slave-holding History.

I was born 3 years before him; but the World turned, drastically, in those 3 years between 1939, and 1942!  It turned again between 1960 and 1964, when "Cassius" became "Muhammad".  Eric Lincoln's book: The Black Muslims in America was published in 1961.  It caused an "uproar" among Black College Students on our Nation's Campuses.  As a student at San Francisco State, I participated in a Debate with our "superior" Black Students at U.C. Berkeley.  "Martin" or "Malcolm" soon became the dividing line.

White Media intervened sharply; hastening to buttress their control over Black Minds, by making sure the Booker T. Washington brainwash of the Old South, remained paramount.  Civil Rights issues rose in prominence among Black Students, from High School and up; beginning around 1952.

When Muhammad Ali declared his name change, shortly followed by his conversion to Islam; White Media was enraged!  White Politicians, and most Blacks, as I remember, hastened to "fall in line"!

Today, those Enemies of Old have grown strong enough to threaten the very survival of our Democracy.  Led by a Kentucky Senator, they have applied the lessons they learned over several past decades: from  the Assassinations of Martin, and Malcolm; their attempts to destroy Ali's Career; and every other trick in their book; to pursue the obliteration of President Obama's Record in Office!  

"Shunning" is the tactic they settled on.  It was used by Cadets at the U. S. Military Academy in their unsuccessful attempt to drive away Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., when he racially integrated the Academy.  McConnell, and his co-conspirators have adopted that tactic to stymie, and thwart the first Black President of the United States.

Stay Vigilant!  These enemies never go away -- they "shape-shift"!  Bull Connor, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Orrin Hatch, Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and the Bushes, and Bubba Clinton have all taken their "turn at the screw"!  Digital Media provides a super-rich environment in which this Monster has gained new life!

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