"Just Take Me to Jail": Remembering Muhammad Ali's Refusal to Fight in Vietnam

[@mikamee5459]

That man had principles. I almost cried the first time I heard him talk about why he wouldnt fight in Vietnam.

[@georgecortina9481]

It is why Americans hate Clay.

[@how5851]

​@@georgecortina9481After all those years, it turned out he was right. Vietnam was a joke.

[@rafirk6137]

[As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be murdered, you haven't got no blood." -- Malcolm X❤

[@KainobiN]

@@georgecortina9481most Americans love Him then hate him everyone loves him and call him great your the only one who hates Muhammad Ali

[@md.mahadihasan6642]

​@@georgecortina9481who??

[@Hasnanembong]

I think the Vietnam government should hail this man by building a memorial for him. At least to show to the world that there is an angel among the Americans who stood up for fellow human beings.

[@bigfartsmom9775]

I'm Viet, I know what his words meant to me. You can only be judged on your own actions. A Good man with a very big heart ❤️ he was going to be silenced anyway, you can't keep the belts while in the services or a jail cell, so he chose the latter

[@booktendersclub1110]

And make America pay for it.

[@gerard4039]

avocadopotat not if you are a Jew or a white supremacist moron 😅😅😅, it seems you are not aware of what his act did to the Vietnam war, !!!! Unbelievable !!!!

[@seinzi]

Remo Gaggi Yes lmao

[@seinzi]

norizanmohd Nah i dont i think we should , he just didnt join the war he didnt help us shit less

[@grewntd]

What a great example of a person with power using it for social conscience efforts. All celebrities should take note

[@sketchers987]

Hello!

[@grewntd]

Michael Fassfenderbender Hey

[@libanabduqader3455]

he was the man god blees him and I love hem my brother muslim and I ilove my muslim

[@toomuchtruth]

This is the difference between a man of character & most celebrities that have sold their soul & are mere puppets.

[@2lita572]

AGREED ..THE CONSEQUENCES ARE OFTEN CAREER AND OR LIFE ENDING...I FEEL MOST WHAT THEY SHOULD DO...NEVERTHELESS A TOUGH DECISION TO MAKE...THE STORY OF THE THREE BLACK TRACK STARS THAT RAISED THERE FIST HAD SAD STORIES AFTER THE FACT...THESE DECISIONS AFFECT THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS...WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO STAND UP FOR OURSELVES AND OR BELIEFS WITHOUT PUNISHMENT.

[@gerard4039]

The magic of Mohammed Ali is that event his enemies respect him . He was and will be amongst the greatest men in modern history .

[@rafirk6137]

[As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be murdered, you haven't got no blood." -- Malcolm X❤

[@ZeeshanKhan-kb6is]

Muhammad Ali. A great man. A great muslim. Truly showed the world what Islam is all about. Still, they call us terrorists. True Islam is peace

[@debbiemoon8139]

put ah man in jail because he refuse to KILL strangers??

[@ThatOneFoo2024]

Debbie Moon That’s America for you

[@KALANGODEPAREDE3D]

Land of freedom

[@tigerish7tiger12]

That's America and isrl for you

[@NinoBlacks]

Life, Liberty, and Fredoom for all.

[@niyazcader]

great man in the american history is muhammad ali.may allah grand him jannathul firthous.

[@mossimei9742]

niyazcader allahu akbar (explosion)

[@calvinhazard1621]

Jacob Tauiliili are u afraid of death? Hell waiting for y'all due to fake religion, mean it for all religion except islam

[@mossimei9742]

@@calvinhazard1621 haven’t seen this reply in three years, all religion is bullshit and im not afraid to die kid

[@xeats3020]

@@mossimei9742 thank u (respectfully)

[@deannpembrook1448]

Love "my" Mohammad Ali!! 💜👊🏽 He was never afraid to speak the truth as he saw it, he has my utmost respect & love. RIP my warrior for the people! 🙏🏽🌎❤️

[@Hasnanembong]

Muhammad means "worthy of praise". The bible translated it as "altogether lovely". He is worth praising alright. A man full of charisma and deep love for humanity as to regard the vietnamese as his fellow brothers.

[@abdulkhalik9485]

Wow

[@MuhammadYamman]

That’s what Islam teaches you. Stand firm against what you think is wrong and bear the consequences whatever they might be.

[@Maneezy15]

Man Ali made it clear that America was racist.. and he wasn’t gonna kill innocents !!! ALI WAS THE KING ON AND OFF THE RING so much respect to my brother man. 🥺 ♥️

[@makaranddange6727]

Greatest Boxer I have ever seen Ali was a poetry in motion. The other thing about him was the social convictions he fought for throughout his life. May him Rest in Peace.

[@altomalhassan3652]

he is a phenomenal person and he was more than boxing

[@eakherenow]

Wish Ali was here for Sanders.He would definitely be a Sanders supporter.That was a great speech about not going to fight,Thank you for playing it.

[@mjjohnson9925]

He paid the cost to be the boss. He said then what even the powers that be today acknowledge now. Vietnam War was a mistake.

[@USA4thewin]

will always be the greatest

[@noorbouaidjera7111]

What a legend !

[@wisamar1113]

My Allah grant him Aljhana, Ali was a great man. He was not a boxer only, he was bigger than that.

[@hansolo7052]

You spelt jhana wrong. It's"ALJANNAH"

[@nunogomes5705]

Legend Hero Goat 🙏🏾♥️♥️🙏🏾

[@Maneezy15]

This man had to say what he had to say and was never feared. I just wish more ppl were like Ali. God bless and rip goat 😭

[@qaasimmohamed1441]

They put him in the jail in his best prime, and he was still greatest of all time.

[@dougiequick1]

I dont at all agree with his religion or politics but refusing to serve in Vietnam? Willing to go to prison for it? A HERO.... if you ask me.

[@tessjosh]

Same lessons apply today

[@syedhussain5852]

TESSJOSH yes I agree.. We need MD. Ali again.

[@temapuoterangipaul601]

THE MAN

[@fcchannel6162]

i love this cause it shows me stand for something you believe in cause its hard to sleep on a gulity conscience

[@nasfrom-da-ldn7362]

The greatest human being

[@SLRok]

Our brother was a great black man, rest in peace good brother.

[@maverickforlife7313]

Muhammad Ali is the niece person in the world 🌎

[@gerard4039]

He was an international revolutionary , yup , a one of kind

[@SeekingSikhiStories]

MUHAMMAD ALI was his BRAVE NAME 👏🏼✌🏼💜🙏🏼

[@lynneleeluckdowsing6654]

Integrity is beautiful, godly, godlike. it is the vow of the soul to Spirit.

[@kanehawaii]

49 years later, this man (#TheGreatest) is beloved and a pioneer for #CivilRights. Essentially saying the same thing Colin Kaepernick is saying. I was too young to know what effect Ali had on the nation of his views, but I know he sacrificed dearly for his beliefs. People forget that Kaepernick will probably never play for the NFL as Aliʻs boxing career basically ended and was actually supposed to go to jail, if not for an appeal and overturning of the verdict. Ali was labelled a traitor, unpatriotic, and disrespectful. Today he is a hero! #NoVietkongEverCalledMeNigger Small parallel to Colin not standing.

[@Vintagenegro]

Kaperfake can not be compared to ali. This Baystate didn't start kneeling until he started losing.

[@abdulkadirhassan2428]

Mohamed Ali made history and he is a hero

[@benjaminislesesq.9551]

I ❤ Mohammed Ali. This honorable Man had principles and love for the nation of Vietnam and its peoples.

[@abdulzookari6751]

That man was from a different planet!

[@thehumanity0]

This is what a real hero looks like.

[@hafsatshuaib]

🤎🤎🤎 a great man!

[@pascalpoussin1209]

Bravo for showing Ali's example of ethics and principles. I believe that all US soldiers should be treated as war criminals for we all know the horrendous crimes committed by the US military in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen just to name a few... These people join the military just to pay back there student loan, but should be processed in la Hague for knowingly participating in crimes against humanity by destroying sovereign nations.

[@abasstia8614]

RIP CHAMP 🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷⚘⚘❤❤❤

[@maankaabe]

Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Wa lilahi Hamd, Who are we? THE BANNER OF LA ILAHA ILALLAH, WE RUNNING FROM ALLAH TO ALLAH, ENYOY GOOD FORBID EVIL, THE DUNYA CHAMPION IN GOOD DAYS AND BAD, ALLAHU AKBAR, WA LILAHI HAMD, THE ULTIMATE CHAMPION

[@Amatullah7007]

Wa muhammadan rasoolAllah sallah llahu alayhi wa salaam

[@Mdmc9738]

To talk this way is a total belief as in breathing.

[@flowrepins6663]

land of freedom... strip title and jail for refusing going to war for personal believes

[@Abdi-libaax]

Ali and Malcolm X are the greatest

[@freddiereagan6705]

Wow

[@antoniusholleboom9649]

He was and is the greatest despite of the white USA.

[@ThaoPhuong-is9lf]

Call him " A Hero"

[@cyrusmaina5325]

After watching this ..i might start getting ideas that someone made him sick.

[@emiliobello2538]

And Israeli teenagers are refusing to fight in Gaza

[@motobacktoconstitution4138]

Thank you Alie you are truce warriors and truce champion of world.

[@HearNSee1]

He was a fearless (Fierce) fighter for the ages. A great humanitarian with a generosity of spirit that comes to us swiftly and not too often. I've seen this wonderful glory in my Dad, Mandela, Mother Theresa, and Ali. May this boldly courageous warrior, leader, inspiration rest in eternal peace. You may be gone from our sight...but your light is ever bright. My prayers to his family and to the world who will miss him.

[@charleswest6372]

I did same. Refused that dirty war. US had NO business there to start with-!

[@rukayyaibrahim2562]

May Allah forgive his short coming ameen

[@dougiequick1]

Although I take nothing away AT ALL from guys that followed the law and went to "war" (because I mean a guy OUGHT to be able to trust his government that they are legitimate in "war" efforts) ...I never the less count ALSO as heros every man that chose prison instead of cooperation with the draft ....the guys that fled to canada? Not so much heros...they did not sacrifice anything if you ask me....But man to go in eyes wide open and say "go ahead put me in prison cause THIS is BULLSHIT" ? These guys qualify as heros ...that is ready to personally pay for standing up for a clear conscience. I was too young to get drafted buy a few years and too ignorant to know any better anyway...but I like to HOPE that somehow I would have grown a brain if I had been old enough and would have insisted on prison rather than the draft ....knowing me though? I would just have wanted to go shoot people and blow shit up... I wish I could honestly claim otherwise but I can't...I was ignorant and happy to be so. Maybe I can blame my folks on that ...when I played army all the time growing up neither of em every sat me down and pointed out problems with glorifying war ...they thought it was cute and supplied me well with plastic guns and knives and grenades.... Not that I am a pacifists these days, just that taking up arms against other people is some SERIOUS SHIT not to be taken lightly or at the whim of limited movers and shakers ...a draft? OK ...OK for "our survival DEPENDS on it"...For a bonafide DECLARED WAR....but NEVER EVER NEVER some shit like Viet fricken Nam...

[@paulsowerby888]

Malcolm x was a genius

[@boohowaer4246]

I wonder what Vietnam thinks about him!

[@kienlam6157]

he is the greatest of all time

[@freddiereagan6705]

Fun fact: Bruce Lee is fan of Bruce Lee

[@giuseppesottile-n4v]

top man ever

[@charleswest6372]

Expect same today if the draft comes.

[@glen6945]

ALI DONT -PUT WOMEN -IN BEE KEEPER-SUITS

[@keithkimmeysr953]

He didnt spend one day in prison did you forget that?

[@julianmarsh1378]

Nope just had his career ruined in the land of the free...we spend way too much time idolizing brain dead soldiers trained to follow orders without thinking...

[@keithkimmeysr953]

@@julianmarsh1378 Wasnt afraid of anyone IN THE RING and beat nearly everyone but didnt have the guts to fight when so many others died its called THE CALL OF DUTY

[@julianmarsh1378]

@@keithkimmeysr953 Call to stupidity is more like it....

[@keithkimmeysr953]

@@julianmarsh1378 Im wasting my time talking to ALI buffs like you

[@julianmarsh1378]

@@keithkimmeysr953 Yes, you are. So, stop.

[@glen6945]

ACE

[@UndersiegeAl]

Respect his decision but he went from awesome to straight up racist real quick. FMA

[@lader7948]

4 years ali lose ...

[@talonpure]

La Der ik im late but those 4 years he would have been in his prime, he would have been so great during those years but sadly we never got to see it

[@joydevsarkar4474]

That doesn't matter he won this matters

[@masyaf897]

@@talonpure Facts

[@bobbyenglish7956]

HE TRUE CHARACTER OF CASSIUS CLAY aka MUHAMMAD ALI To understand it better, I turn to Jack Cashill, author of the book, Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream. Here is an excerpt, reviewing Ali's negative accomplishments during his first crucial years in the public eye, 1960-75: • Ali knowingly betrayed Malcolm X, a betrayal that led at least indirectly to Malcolm's assassination. • Ali publicly turned his back on his press secretary, Leon 4X Ameer, which led to Ameer's death. • When Nation of Islam activists executed five friends and family of the Hanafi sect-four of them children-Ali did not quit the Nation or even publicly protest. Nor did the media ask him to. • For at least four years running Ali publicly degraded Joe Frazier, often along the crudest racial lines. "There's a great honor about Joe," says baseball great Reggie Jackson. "That was evident in the way he fought. And Muhammad ridiculed Joe; he humiliated him in front of the world." • Ali also verbally and physically abused Floyd Patterson and Ernie Terrell, two men who did not deserve it. • Ali was an unapologetic sexist. "In the Islamic world," he told Playboy, "the man's the boss, and the woman stays in the background. She don't want to call the shots." He wrote this in 1975, three years into the doomed struggle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Feminists still wrestle over this one. • While the black family was under assault, with its rate of unwed births nearly tripling during these fifteen years, Ali was fathering children out of wedlock with at least one teenage girl. • He also was about to leave four of his children without a father in the home after rejecting their Muslim mother for a more glamorous, only marginally black eighteen year-old. • Belinda Ali was the second wife he had publicly humiliated. Sonji was the first. • Ali remained an unabashed racist, calling for an American apartheid and the lynching of interracial couples as late as 1975. • In the years that mattered, Ali drove a wedge between the races. This may not have been evident to the cultural elite, but anyone who had been at Gary or like venues would know exactly what I mean. • He routinely denigrated black heroes who did not share his point of view, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall among them. • He continuously belittled and undermined Christianity, a bedrock of cultural stability in black America. • Ali shamelessly courted some of the most brutal dictators on the planet: Qaddafi, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Nkrumah, Mobutu, Marcos. • One of those dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Wa Za Banga, was complicit in the death of the black nationalist hero, Patrice Lumumba. • Ali helped launch the career of Don King. Left-wing media is extolling the magnificence of another street thug, black racist, Cassius Clay, of Louisville, Kentucky. My word, the godliness, they write of this racist, anti-American boxer who advertised himself as the greatest. Words, totally without substance, unless one is a black, leftist, anti-white, anti-American loony headed, mouthy racist with a clever trick with words. Truth is no longer a feature of America’s lefty news establishment. That the thug softened after falling to the dreadful Parkinson’s disease is true, but most of his ugly mouth and behavior had already been established.

[@cudacularry2720]

Bobby English its too late, hes dead. why dont you take any action before? now i called its a bad mouth after you talking shit about someone whos alr2ady left the world unless you're serious about the thing you have said. The problem when people around the world already knows about this type of behaviour...keep misinformed and misguided the masses for tour own political power. Thats why your people elected Trump's as POTUS after they've misleaded by the media. Make America great and white again, but in reality your action just to keep the power of elites/master of manipulation once again. Thats why we still fucked up nowadays. Remember whats your goverment have told the world about freedom and democracy? For an example the country like Indonesia who kiced out the Muslim scholar to embraced your democracy. Yet, your government and the other establishment still labeled Indonesia as backwards country and terrorist country. The same thing happen after US attacked the Iraq and Libya for liberation, and now you've banned all of them from entering yohr country. So why don't you just stfu and do your thing without interrupt the internal affair and politics to the​ other countries. ☝

[@abucabmax742]

You eating the dead body. You couldn't say all these infront of him.

[@beverlyann111]

I think you're jealous, we love Ali from Amman, Jordan

[@2lita572]

WHAT DID HIS DECISION NOT TO GO HAVE TO DO WITH HIS TITLE...TECHNICALLY HIS JOB...FOH

[@garyjohnson5200]

love Moses and Love you and Catholic Jesus Mohammad

[@barcaman1013]

Gotta love the white man smh

[@georgecortina9481]

Wasn't he kicked out of boxing?

[@ashtonalmond9024]

3 years

[@georgecortina9481]

@@ashtonalmond9024 So The Coward was, America hasn't forgot..

[@georgecortina9481]

@@ashtonalmond9024 So he was, so how can Clay be the greatest?

[@georgecortina9481]

@@ashtonalmond9024 Thank you for agreeing.

[@Hatim.13]

​@@georgecortina9481You re pathetic and make no sense, you re all over the internet talking bs about Ali, a man who is 100000 times more significant and braver than you ll ever be little manlet! He was a principled man that has refused to be a bootlicker and travel halfway around the world to kill innocent civilians in their own country, and he was banned from Boxing for 3 years because of it, not out of choice, only to comeback and win in one of the most significant sports events in history! You might live in an alternate reality, most likely a maga maggot who hates people of color and looks for excuses to justify the hate...I pity you

[@flowrepins6663]

3:00 hipocrisy he went to israel to treat parkison

[@Imran-daiyan]

There is/was/will be anything called Israel

[@robertjoaseus-fo3nh]

One of the greatest man who ever lived. A man of principle. A man of conviction with his belief. Rip in peace champ.

[@marylondon9193]

thats why'''''THEY''''''poisoned ali and blamed it on that PARKINSONS-B.S.

[@caroltaylor8009]

Great! Finally you're one of the rare persons on earth who's understand what the devil establishment really did to this man and claim it was parkinson stuffs etc. Smh. 🤔