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March 06, 2004
Muhammad Ali, voice of conscience Forty years ago today, March 6, 1964, world boxing champ and recently converted Muslim Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali, scaring the bejesus out of whitey. Ha! Whitey NEEDED scaring. Having been but one year old at the time, it's a bit difficult for me now to gauge what people at the time were thinking, but I can imagine how this put the fear of Allah into the crackers. Some folk seemed to think that this mighty warrior was getting ready to lead some kind of violent Negro uprising.
It was exactly three years later, on March 6, 1967 that he really got to start showing his devotion to conscience though, as the US military tried to draft him. He had no beef with anyone in Vietnam, noting that no Vietnamese had ever called him "nigger," so he was not going to be involved in making war on them.
It cost him years knocked out of fighting in the prime of his career, and could easily have gotten him prison time. But he stood up for what he believed, and time has certainly reflected well on his actions. In retrospect, he looks like not just the greatest professional boxer ever, but a great voice of conscience as well.
Down here on the farm, we're also proud to claim him as a brother Kentuckian.
