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8. This is just one quote but there are 100s of them

Sun Jun 5, 2016, 10:05 AM

Jun 2016

JohnDingell tweeted this:

Muhammad Ali didn't transcend race.

He was Black. Powerful. Confident.

He was everything that hateful people feared.

He was the Greatest.

This is some of what it means to be Black on purpose

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Muhammad Ali would never vote for Bernie underthematrix Jun 2016 #4

He was "black on purpose"??? MrMickeysMom Jun 2016 #6

This is just one quote but there are 100s of them underthematrix Jun 2016 #8

And I respect the reason he was against war. Our wars have jwirr Jun 2016 #10

Exactly. Nothing has really changed for the good - we have jwirr Jun 2016 #15

I Love Bernie, Jnclr89 Jun 2016 #5

That is simply not true... MrMickeysMom Jun 2016 #7

You bring to mind the Temptation's song underthematrix Jun 2016 #9

Ali's refusal to go to war was one of the basis for many of us jwirr Jun 2016 #11

You love Bernie but.... rhett o rick Jun 2016 #14