Farewell to the Louisville Lip: Muhammad Ali's hometown says goodbye to its favorite son after the greatest boxer ever dies aged 74 following 32-year battle with Parkinson's Muhammad Ali died aged 74 at a hospital outside Phoenix, Arizona, overnight after a 32-year battle with Parkinson's Greatest boxer of all time was rushed to hospital on Thursday with breathing difficulties and an 'unshakeable cough' Ali's wife Lonnie and daughters were by his side when he passed, while a candle lit vigil took place outside hospital Today mourners laid flowers and left heartwarming messages at the Ali center in his hometown Louisville, Kentucky For the latest Muhammad Ali news and tributes visit
Mena: Rest in peace great human and great boxer Muhammad Ali. May your soul fly to Sirius in peace.
Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston in a 1965 fight
Ali is photographed after a training session in 1970. The three-time heavyweight champion, who was also a key figure in America's civil rights movement, had been on life support in hospital, after he was found 'barely breathing' at his home on Thursday
Hero boxer: Ali prowls the ring after putting George Foreman down in round eight of the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire in 1974
Ali with his daughter Hana in 1977. She is now an accomplished author and today described her father as a 'humble mountain'
Ali with Martin Luther King in 1967. As well as a boxer, Ali is seen as an important figure in the US Civil Rights movement
Daddy's girls: Ali with his daughter's Laila (left) and Hana (right) at his birthday party in January
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I was hoping that no one would start a thread. He was an important figure in my life, very painful to keep going over our loss.
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If it was a White man saying the things Ali said, there'd have been heck to pay. Everyone would've been hollering racist racist,his career would've been over,he'd have no prospects of getting another,his life would've been over. However since he's Black,he has Black privilege.
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'However since he's Black,he has Black privilege.'
Doxie, yeah Black privilege. Because he called u Albinos out globally over your sociopathic behavior u imprisoned him during his prime. And he was correct. Aint no vietcong ever call him nigger. He could never say that about resident Albinos of Kentucky.
I suspect his 'Parkinsons syndrome' was given to him by government spooks to literally 'shut him up' - the intentionally irony. The biggest talker in the world silenced. I am sure they have the drugs to accomplish that.
Many many boxers get Punch drunk. Only Ali gets Parkinson syndrome......which is different from Parkinson's disease.
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White child hater,did you even watch the video I posted? He was speaking about race mixing.
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Blacks are amongst the only people besides Jews that can speak against race mixing and actually get away with it. If a White said the same things he did they'd be branded a wickedevilracistnaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. Yes that is Black privilege.
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quote:Originally posted by CelticWarrioress: Blacks are amongst the only people besides Jews that can speak against race mixing and actually get away with it. If a White said the same things he did they'd be branded a wickedevilracistnaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. Yes that is Black privilege.
Jews are multiracial and mostly white so logic fail
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White child hater,as I've said plenty of times before you and your ilk wouldn't know truth if it came up and bit you on your backsides. All you know is "hate Whitey, get Whitey, Kill Whitey". Sorry but Whites are not albinos you White child hating,pro-White genocide,Anti-White,Black racist,Black supremacist goon.
Fourty2Tribes,
Sorry Whitey hater but Jews aint White. Now run along and go hurt some crackas like you want to. White child hating,pro-White genocide,Anti-White,Black racist,Black supremacist moron.
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quote:Originally posted by CelticWarrioress: If it was a White man saying the things Ali said, there'd have been heck to pay. Everyone would've been hollering racist racist,his career would've been over,he'd have no prospects of getting another,his life would've been over. However since he's Black,he has Black privilege.
quote:Originally posted by CelticWarrioress: If it was a White man saying the things Ali said, there'd have been heck to pay. Everyone would've been hollering racist racist,his career would've been over,he'd have no prospects of getting another,his life would've been over. However since he's Black,he has Black privilege.
1965, white men could rape black woman by the protection of the law, and black man got sentence for even looking in a white woman's direction. Need I say more?
If? There is no if, only facts!
quote:Originally posted by CelticWarrioress: Blacks are amongst the only people besides Jews that can speak against race mixing and actually get away with it. If a White said the same things he did they'd be branded a wickedevilracistnaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. Yes that is Black privilege.
Creating the laws to commit these actions is white people's privilege.
quote: Churchill Downer: The Forgotten Racial History Of Kentucky's State Song
The University of Louisville's marching band leaves the Churchill Downs infield after performing the state song at the Kentucky Derby.i The University of Louisville's marching band leaves the Churchill Downs infield after performing the state song at the Kentucky Derby.
Bloomberg via Getty Images Every year at the Kentucky Derby, crazy hat-wearing, mint julep-guzzling horse-gazers break into a passionate rendition of Kentucky's state song, "My Old Kentucky Home." As tradition goes, the University of Louisville Cardinal Marching Band accompanies the crowd as they croon a ballad that seems to be about people who miss their happy home. "The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home/'Tis summer and the people are gay," begins one version.
But Frank X Walker, Kentucky's former poet laureate, suspects that most people are missing the point.
"I'm a Kentuckian, and I love my state," Walker says. "But at the same time, you know, the memories, the history this conjures up, I think people sing it and are totally disconnected from the history, from the truth."
He refers to these lyrics:
"The young folks roll on the little cabin floor, All merry, all happy and bright. By 'n by hard times comes a-knocking at the door, Then my old Kentucky home, good night."
Walker says that though it may sound like "a happy family environment in a humble cabin experience," there's definitely something more going on. "My Old Kentucky Home" was written by Stephen Foster in 1852, years before the Civil War. Foster was an American composer, famous in part for his minstrel music. The characters he references — the ones who had to leave Kentucky — were slaves.
In fact, "My Old Kentucky Home" was originally sold as an anti-slavery song. The final verse shows slaves being "sold down the river," as it was called in those days — sent down the Ohio and Mississippi to serve on sugar cane plantations, where they might be worked to death in the sun.
It includes the lyrics, "A few more days and the trouble all will end, in the field where the sugar cane grows." Paul Robeson sang that verse generations ago; today, people rarely do.
Another part of the song has vanished today. Foster's lyrics called the enslaved people "darkies." These days, that word is no longer sung, which leaves no explicit reference to black people.
But Walker wants people to know the real story behind Kentucky's state song, even if they always thought they were hearing a simple, romantic song of home.
"[Foster] wasn't from Kentucky, so he imagined, or he witnessed something that suggested that is was a great place to be a slave," Walker says. "My issue is that there was no good place to be a slave."
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These days a lot of white people see the wrongdoings towards African Americans, they now understand his motives back in the 60' and 70's. And this is on a global scale.
Muhammad Ali funeral will have worldwide audience of billions watching star's final journey
quote:Originally posted by CelticWarrioress: Kdolo,
White child hater,as I've said plenty of times before you and your ilk wouldn't know truth if it came up and bit you on your backsides. All you know is "hate Whitey, get Whitey, Kill Whitey". Sorry but Whites are not albinos you White child hating,pro-White genocide,Anti-White,Black racist,Black supremacist goon.
Fourty2Tribes,
Sorry Whitey hater but Jews aint White. Now run along and go hurt some crackas like you want to. White child hating,pro-White genocide,Anti-White,Black racist,Black supremacist moron.
White genocide?
quote:Is the dramatic rise in autism tapering off?
The theory holds that the CDC has covered up vital data and committed fraud. It’s based on concerns that a CDC scientist, William Thompson, raised about a study that he and several colleagues published in the journal Pediatrics in 2004.
Thompson, who has been hailed in the anti-vaccine community as a whistleblower, has said he believes the study omitted data that would have shown a link between a certain vaccine and autism in certain African-American boys.
That’s right. “Vaxxed” promotes the unsubstantiated claim that the CDC covered up crucial data about a purported link between vaccines and autism.
Here’s the backstory: One of the CDC researchers who co-authored a 2004 study that found no link between vaccines and autism harbored concerns about the way the analysis was conducted.
A decade later, he shared his concerns with the anti-vaccine activist Brian Hooker, who along with Wakefield began to promote the idea of a coverup.
As the conspiracy theory grew, the CDC researcher, William Thompson, came forward with a public statement. He said he wanted to make “absolutely clear” that he believes vaccines save lives and that he would never advise a parent not to vaccinate. Yet he said data had been omitted from the study that would have showed an increased risk for autism among African-American boys who received the MMR vaccine before age 3.
[...]
Those are serious accusations. Could it be fraud?
There’s no reason to think so. Let’s go through the many problems with the conspiracy theory.
Nobody has produced evidence that the CDC covered up anything. The CDC makes the raw data from the study available to researchers to analyze, and no credible scientists have raised an alarm.
There’s also no compelling biological explanation why African-American boys would be the only group at increased risk for autism. The smaller the subgroup you’re analyzing, the more likely you are to stumble across false positives.
Hooker, the anti-vaccine activist, did his own analysis of the raw data, looking at all African-American kids, not just those with Georgia birth certificates. He found that black boys who were vaccinated before age 3 were 3.4 times more likely to have autism than those who weren’t. The journal Translational Neurodegeneration published his study, then quickly retracted it, citing concerns about Hooker’s “competing interests” and the validity of his methods and statistics.
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Troll Patrol we all know the thought of Whitey going bye-bye aka White genocide makes you happy & makes you smile. You've even stated that Whites should be bred out of existence.
Anyhow, your posts prove what I said. To you Blacks can do no wrong & Whites can do no right (unless said White kisses Black butt & hates his Whiteness & his people & works to destroy them)
Anyhow my post was not meant to disrespect Mr. Ali because I actually agree with him regarding race mixing. OOPS there I go being racist again, I'm White and thus am not allowed to say such things.
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The earliest known depiction of boxing comes from a Sumerian relief in Iraq from the 3rd millennium BCE[1] Later depictions from the 2nd millennium BC are found in reliefs from the Mesopotamian nations of Assyria and Babylonia, and in Hittite art from Asia Minor. The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete (c.1650–1400 BCE), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains (c. 2000–1000 BC).[1]
Boxing was a popular spectator sport in Ancient Rome. In order for the fighters to protect themselves against their opponents they wrapped leather thongs around their fists. Eventually harder leather was used and the thong soon became a weapon. The Romans even introduced metal studs to the thongs to make the cestus which then led to a more sinister weapon called the myrmex ('limb piercer').[citation needed] Fighting events were held at Roman Amphitheatres. The Roman form of boxing was often a fight until death to please the spectators who gathered at such events. However, especially in later times, purchased slaves and trained combat performers were valuable commodities, and their lives were not given up without due consideration. Often slaves were used against one another in a circle marked on the floor. This is where the term ring came from. In AD 393, during the Roman gladiator period, boxing was abolished due to excessive brutality. It was not until the late 17th century that boxing re-surfaced in London.[citation needed]
ecords of Classical boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Western Roman Empire when the wearing of weapons became common once again and interest in fighting with the fists waned. However, there are detailed records of various fist-fighting sports that were maintained in different cities and provinces of Italy between the 12th and 17th centuries. There was also a sport in ancient Rus called Kulachniy Boy or "Fist Fighting".
As the wearing of swords became less common, there was renewed interest in fencing with the fists. The sport would later resurface in England during the early 16th century in the form of bare-knuckle boxing sometimes referred to as prizefighting. The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.[2] This is also the time when the word "boxing" first came to be used. It should be noted, that this earliest form of modern boxing was very different. Contests in Mr. Figg's time, in addition to fist fighting, also contained fencing and cudgeling. On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.
Early fighting had no written rules. There were no weight divisions or round limits, and no referee. In general, it was extremely chaotic. An early article on boxing was published in Nottingham, 1713, by Sir Thomas Parkyns, a successful Wrestler from Bunny, Nottinghamshire, who had practised the techniques he described. The article, a single page in his manual of wrestling and fencing, Progymnasmata: The inn-play, or Cornish-hugg wrestler, described a system of headbutting, punching, eye-gouging, chokes, and hard throws, not recognized in boxing today.[3]
The first boxing rules, called the Broughton's rules, were introduced by champion Jack Broughton in 1743 to protect fighters in the ring where deaths sometimes occurred.[4] Under these rules, if a man went down and could not continue after a count of 30 seconds, the fight was over. Hitting a downed fighter and grasping below the waist were prohibited. Broughton encouraged the use of 'mufflers', a form of padded bandage or mitten, to be used in 'jousting' or sparring sessions in training, and in exhibition matches.
Tom Cribb vs Tom Molineaux in a re-match for the heavyweight championship of England, 1811 These rules did allow the fighters an advantage not enjoyed by today's boxers; they permitted the fighter to drop to one knee to begin a 30-second count at any time. Thus a fighter realizing he was in trouble had an opportunity to recover. However, this was considered "unmanly"[5] and was frequently disallowed by additional rules negotiated by the Seconds of the Boxers.[6] Intentionally going down in modern boxing will cause the recovering fighter to lose points in the scoring system. Furthermore, as the contestants did not have heavy leather gloves and wristwraps to protect their hands, they used different punching technique to preserve their hands, because the head was a common target to hit full out. Almost all period manuals have powerful straight punches with the whole body behind them to the face (including forehead) as the basic blows
Marquess of Queensberry rules (1867)[edit] In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for amateur championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights. The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them.
File:Leonard Cushing Kinetograph 1894.ogv The June 1894 Leonard–Cushing bout. Each of the six one-minute rounds recorded by the Kinetograph was made available to exhibitors for $22.50.[9] Customers who watched the final round saw Leonard score a knockdown. There were twelve rules in all, and they specified that fights should be "a fair stand-up boxing match" in a 24-foot-square or similar ring. Rounds were three minutes with one-minute rest intervals between rounds. Each fighter was given a ten-second count if he was knocked down, and wrestling was banned. The introduction of gloves of "fair-size" also changed the nature of the bouts. An average pair of boxing gloves resembles a bloated pair of mittens and are laced up around the wrists.[10] The gloves can be used to block an opponent's blows. As a result of their introduction, bouts became longer and more strategic with greater importance attached to defensive maneuvers such as slipping, bobbing, countering and angling. Because less defensive emphasis was placed on the use of the forearms and more on the gloves, the classical forearms outwards, torso leaning back stance of the bare knuckle boxer was modified to a more modern stance in which the torso is tilted forward and the hands are held closer to the face
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quote:Originally posted by CelticWarrioress: Troll Patrol we all know the thought of Whitey going bye-bye aka White genocide makes you happy & makes you smile. You've even stated that Whites should be bred out of existence.
Anyhow, your posts prove what I said. To you Blacks can do no wrong & Whites can do no right (unless said White kisses Black butt & hates his Whiteness & his people & works to destroy them)
Anyhow my post was not meant to disrespect Mr. Ali because I actually agree with him regarding race mixing. OOPS there I go being racist again, I'm White and thus am not allowed to say such things.
As predicted, you're projecting again, as usually, based upon your opinions and no facts.
You can procreate with whoever you like. Nobody holds you back. And whites back then stated the same things Muhammad Ali stated. Whites even (created) had laws to support this. So there goes your projecting argument, down the drain.
Your genocide rant is off the radar, because when whites in position do evil and commit harm to black folks, because of a supposed white survival you see no wrongs in this. That was the point I addressed. You see mixing with people of color as a grater tread then the wickedness whites in position do to African Americans.
Here is the deal and here are the facts. It's evil upon evil.
quote:Is the dramatic rise in autism tapering off?
The theory holds that the CDC has covered up vital data and committed fraud. It’s based on concerns that a CDC scientist, William Thompson, raised about a study that he and several colleagues published in the journal Pediatrics in 2004.
Thompson, who has been hailed in the anti-vaccine community as a whistleblower, has said he believes the study omitted data that would have shown a link between a certain vaccine and autism in certain African-American boys.
That’s right. “Vaxxed” promotes the unsubstantiated claim that the CDC covered up crucial data about a purported link between vaccines and autism.
Here’s the backstory: One of the CDC researchers who co-authored a 2004 study that found no link between vaccines and autism harbored concerns about the way the analysis was conducted.
A decade later, he shared his concerns with the anti-vaccine activist Brian Hooker, who along with Wakefield began to promote the idea of a coverup.
As the conspiracy theory grew, the CDC researcher, William Thompson, came forward with a public statement. He said he wanted to make “absolutely clear” that he believes vaccines save lives and that he would never advise a parent not to vaccinate. Yet he said data had been omitted from the study that would have showed an increased risk for autism among African-American boys who received the MMR vaccine before age 3.
[...]
Those are serious accusations. Could it be fraud?
There’s no reason to think so. Let’s go through the many problems with the conspiracy theory.
Nobody has produced evidence that the CDC covered up anything. The CDC makes the raw data from the study available to researchers to analyze, and no credible scientists have raised an alarm.
There’s also no compelling biological explanation why African-American boys would be the only group at increased risk for autism. The smaller the subgroup you’re analyzing, the more likely you are to stumble across false positives.
Hooker, the anti-vaccine activist, did his own analysis of the raw data, looking at all African-American kids, not just those with Georgia birth certificates. He found that black boys who were vaccinated before age 3 were 3.4 times more likely to have autism than those who weren’t. The journal Translational Neurodegeneration published his study, then quickly retracted it, citing concerns about Hooker’s “competing interests” and the validity of his methods and statistics.
It's whites who are doing the genocide upon blacks. Not the other way around. You have no facts, only opinion. Posts: 22234 | From: האם אינכם כילדי הכרית אלי בני ישראל | Registered: Nov 2010
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