»No, I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.« Muhammad Ali’s public refusal to take part in the Vietnam War in 1967 meant that he was banned from boxing as the reigning heavyweight boxing world champion. At this time, the black, extremely light-footed boxer Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, was at the peak of his career. In 1964, he announced that he would henceforth renounce his slave name and go by Muhammad Ali… Poster from Disorder Rebelstore.
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