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Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - chairman - 06-04-2016
Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, whose record-setting boxing career, flair for showmanship and political stands made him one of the best-known figures of the 20th century, died on Friday aged 74.
Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - ketchim - 06-04-2016
[size=1em]Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
[/size]I know he was real ill with Parkinsons, that dreaded disease
May the Almighty grant you Jannatul Firdaus, the highest point of Paradise
Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - ketchim - 06-04-2016
Back in '66 with Rohan Kanhai and our cricket squad, Lord's, London England
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Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - ketchim - 06-04-2016
Ali photographed in the gym at his Michigan home in 1999The photograph behind him is from 1963 8)
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Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - mapoui - 06-04-2016
oh well...on to the ancestors as they say in African America. Transitioned!
Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - ketchim - 06-04-2016
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
Ali, holds the "Muhammad Speaks" newspaper with his picture
and followers of his Muslim faith Nov. 22, 1965.
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Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - ketchim - 06-04-2016
Methink the Vietnam War refusal was the BEST
Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - mapoui - 06-04-2016
me think too many truly great black people dying......
oh man can it just stop for a while...pause for a minute...... ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::
Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - ketchim - 06-04-2016
Aged 74 , BUT I suppose as a Pugilist ....
In Guyana we say " doan go crab dance IF yuh doan want geh MUD "
Re: Muhammad Ali, boxing great and cultural symbol, dead at 74 - mapoui - 06-04-2016
all we are being left with are the great arseholes:
Obama, Holder, the Rices, Jeh Johnson, Sharpton, Jesse jackson, Loretta Lynch..arse-likkin' wunderkind Steve Harvey...
Jacod Zuma, Paul Kagame, Koffi Anan........