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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Mon Sep 14, 2015, 04:27 PM Sep 2015

In a war of words with Muhammad Ali, winning was never an option. I mean...why even TRY?

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In a war of words with Muhammad Ali, winning was never an option. I mean...why even TRY? (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2015 OP

Considering how much racist shit Ali flung, especially at Joe Frazier mythology Sep 2015 #1

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1. Considering how much racist shit Ali flung, especially at Joe Frazier

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Tue Sep 15, 2015, 08:54 AM

Sep 2015

it amazes me how people just forget and gloss over it. It's easy to be "funny" when you are willing to use racial invective, but in the end, it only revealed the lack of class that Ali had at the time.

Fortunately he has grown wiser in the intervening years.

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