Muhammad Ali Gives His Stance On The Vietnam War | The Dick Cavett Show

mohamad, what are you doing these days now? It seems like sometimes I wonder what you're doing. You know, it's very strange. I'm actually busier now, but I was boxing because at the time I was boxing I had to go train him. About 3 months before a fight and immediately after a fight, I was signing for another one and I was like on the streets or like three weeks of them I went back to training and I fought up to 3 or 4 times a year and I trained in For three months I was in every fight mostly, but now I'm busier than more active in the reign of an example.

Yesterday I was in Pittsburgh and toured three black high schools in one day encouraging young people. There are many gang wars. are happening and they're shooting at each other and attacking each other in the streets and the directors or they mentioned that with the things that I've done and the sacrifices that I've made I'm one of the few people they could listen to so I went and they They listened and a couple of the gangs got together and we had a little secret meeting and they shook hands and said they were going to try to stop fighting and shooting and a lot of my drug use and a lot of the girls are going into prostitution and we went to the schools. we talked to the different groups and we had a good time and everything yes, I want our university to do it too and my agent or Richard fails there in New York says it looks like we are I will be booked for another two years at the universities and I am also going to franchise about 500 restaurants called champ Burgers.

We have five of them in the Miami area. Champ Burgers Hamburgers. We negotiate the rule on ten more buildings in Georgia and off we go. here and all over the country and Random House will soon release the autobiography of my life for about four more months. I'll be pretty busy, that's pretty good, is there anything? How are you now with the possibility of going to jail? oh I don't know, I'm just waiting any day. Do you think about that? Do you think about that? Do you ever think about what you will do well? Yes, you think about it at night when you're in bed.

Think about yourself, you know, if I had gone this way, what could have happened if I had gone this way and figured it all out? Yes, no one got freedom until some have to die, some lose wealth, some give up money and, as I would say, white race when the young people first came here they didn't have these cameras and televisions and jet planes and our conditions and Howard Johnsons and Holiday Inns and the Americana and Hilton hotels had to fight the Indians see the daughters raped and scabbed it took them six months go from here to Los Angeles now you can do it in three and a half hours but nevertheless they kept fighting and cutting down the trees and they did not see this but they opened a way for the present vice to rule and the Japanese in the world.

Second War, they had these flights called suicide missions, they knew they would die, but they handled that plane correctly. His life meant nothing when it came to the freedom of his daughter, his son, the future of his nation and I would say, like the astronauts, three white astronauts. They were almost stranded in space and their wives are waiting and the children were worried because they could have been there now still in order, yes, if it had not been for the progress of a white American space, eight astronauts died on the ground and three almost They did not return. but when people really want to progress, some have to sacrifice a lot and I like to say white America right now spends thirty million dollars a day in Asia, black and white bars are dying unjustly for nothing just to free someone else , so why should I care? about going to the little jail to free my poor people who have been going through hell here and it's a little hard it's a little hard to give a straight answer to that it's a little hard to put a black man or any black person in this country in jail because If you ask the average, we are already in jail, you will know that we have been in jail for a hundred years.

Something changed so many times in that long sentence I read. I'm going to talk for a second now because I really don't know. I don't know how that connects to Howard Johnson and all that, but it's a long, fantastic reign for Lee. Do you feel bitter towards the entire white race? Do you think there is something about whiteness that is whatever white people do when it comes to evil or wrong? mistreatment it's just the nature of the white race to be like that if we look back at history I think in nature yes it's just human nature to kill wait a minute you know watch TV if there isn't a movie of white people shooting white people in gunfights and jeans. photos there they shoot Mendez if not they shoot endlessly the egg rolls they shoot if they are not doing that the Rangers shooting the elephant or her killing something she just has to shoot this is the system is based on war now let me ask you this do you think if there were happened the other way around for some reason in what is called evolution, if the genes and pigments had worked differently and if the nation of Africa or the continent of Africa had developed the type of civilization that ours has and is it possible that What I'm trying to say is that there is something intrinsically?

I know this is part of the Muslim point. I guess the black Muslim point is that there is something intrinsically tomboyish and aggressive about white nature that there isn't. There is no religious point what I am telling you is in the history books in your own books about this I have a book called 100 are you sure I know that oh I am not mentioning religion or anything this is just the fact that the world you know, you know, but I would say that, from what I see, the nature of the darkest people is peace. I will say that the Japanese seemed to be a peaceful people until someone else came dictating and trying to rule the Hawaiians or maybe on the beach he did a little dance and he didn't, he was building his what a tipi or whatever you call it.

Africano was somewhere doing his little dance. These people have never tried to go to other planets or kill, enslave other people or take over countries. Actually, that's it. It's not true, I don't want to argue with you, but Tahiti, for example, is always used as an example of the paradise that the white man came and destroyed, but if you look at its history when I'm an expert because I just read a book about Captain Cook, but that supposedly peaceful paradise where people did nothing but pluck bread from trees and make love and had no disease until the white man arrived there, in reality had a number of unpleasant aspects such as the fact that they strangled babies at birth to keep the population down, that there were live human sacrifices, so I really know that there has been justice and scandals against black people in this country, but it doesn't really get us very far to talk. about something like the white man is some kind of intrinsic devil dominates you, okay, what you say, was the truth, what you all have done is worse than the devil they told us about underground, how would you like it if I out to drive a commercial on our local stations will give you back