Ishmael Reed: The Complete Muhammad Ali Video Lecture | Shaping the Future: The New Western World - Personal Skills

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I'm waiting for the book the Muhammad
Ali book to come out in the count how
many controversy now is that is that a
biography of Muhammad Ali or is it more
of a it's a biography because his
current wife does not lock her minions
or any probing into what's happening
with him now some say she's a savior in
other way that she's like a conniving
manipulator right alani Ali so she's
trying to protect him from any well some
say she's trying to protect you others
say she's a gold digger so she's very
controversial I think the pre
controversial people in the in my book
it's elijah muhammad and lonnie holley
and a discovery something I've never
thought about Tommy Burns Canadian
heavyweight no I don't know who was
ostracized because he bought black black
fighters he not only fought black
fighters when Jim Corbett John Sullivan
others avoided them he fought Jack
Johnson that was his downfall Wow and
the poor guy was also science with the
rest of his life for losing to a black
fighter so is this book of that boxing
or as it's about boxing is about
cultures about politics is about ollie
right you know Scott's braden abusing it
I was able to interview manual Stuart
who's considered one of the great lady
immanual Stuart one of the great boxing
trainers and he has some great stories
about ollie including the pitiful
circumstances surrounding lands fight
with trevor berbick Berbick and uh i
think i was in a well Jimmy Trinidad or
Jamaica and what happened there he was
not able to defend himself right matter
of fact I mean it's a really sad the ND
he fought the last two fights under
dementia oh he fought the Leon Spinks
fight yes and Larry Holmes Andy and the
the last fight with trevor trevor
berbick under a you know brain
problems I took a lot took a great
punishment with the piper Larry Holmes
she'd never have happened I think the
full story should be told because some
of the parts not flattering but we have
to remember how how young he was yeah
and he admits himself in 1964 he was
religious fanatic that's interesting and
a misogynist I guess you callable yeah
okay I I think if the biography even if
it's critical sometimes we don't live
long enough to see this happen but
eventually the critical information gets
I think the part of the picture and the
person becomes richer and deeper because
they do have a few human flaws well I
think well what I say at the end is our
I quote one of the Puritan mothers who
oppose Jonathan Edwards idea that we're
all born in sin and we're wretched she
said that every person has a little bit
of Zeus in them and I say some have more
Zeus than others because JFK and under
the king and long rally are still like
Teflon coated actually