speakeasy said:cardguy said:Following on from Malcolm X.
Muhammed Ali was pretty racist:
From what I read, Ali took an army IQ test and it showed him at IQ 78 which is borderline retarded. But the guy doesn't strike me as dumb at all. He's clever, quick-witted and always has some snappy come back. It really makes you question the veracity of IQ tests. A person with an IQ of 78 should barely be functional.
Samseau said:I didn't see anything racist in that video.
Maybe not hardcore racist, but if someone is the product of a mixed race marriage I can see them feeling offended that Ali refers to their parent's union as something unnatural. I don't think Ali wants to make IR marriage illegal or anything, but I think he was going a bit further than a mere benign preference for his own. He seemed pretty critical toward people who don't feel the same way. Sometimes two people of different ethnicities fall for one another and it's all good and well. Why did he think a Chinese and a Puerto Rican can't have a healthy relationship just on account of their race? That to me is racist. And if not racist at the very least incredibly ignorant and narrow-minded. I mean shit, there are plenty of people in the same race that have terrible relationships. Look at the divorce rate? Most of these divorces are intraracial.
Edit -- What happened to Hispanic Reasoning??
Yea what did happen to Hispanic Reasoning?
