Ali

Mohammed Ali was a great athlete and a stand-up man of principle, much like Kareem Abdul Jabbar or Jim Brown. I think Ali started and embodied the claim that Black Is Beautiful. He believed in the separation of the races, and he took thousands of hits to the head. If you think he was kind, look up how he taunted, tortured and humiliated Floyd Patterson and others. Yet Ali was a genuine hero. He refused to be drafted and sent to kill Asians for no good reason. He never bowed and kissed the whip, and like all heroes, he had feet of clay.