Both men have refused merely to entertain the masses and bank the proceeds. And that scares a lot of people in the establishment
The day after shocking the world by defeating the heavily favored Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship in 1964, the man then known as Cassius Clay shocked the world again when he announced that he was abandoning his “slave name”, joining the Nation Of Islam, and would from that day forward only answer to, or acknowledge the name, Muhammad Ali.
And on that day, he became more than an athlete.
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Etan Thomas played in the NBA from 2001 through 2011. He is a published poet, activist and motivational speaker
