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Muhammad Ali’s daughter just gave an interview that ‘Black Lives Matter’ isn’t going to like…
October 5, 2016 | Warner Todd Huston | Print Article   


Many in the African American community like to use the legacy of boxing great Muhammad Ali to push their various social issues, but it appears Ali’s daughter, Laila Ali, isn’t continuing that activism to many blacks’ satisfaction. Recently she got in trouble with Black Lives Matter advocates because she won’t endorse them and said the movement “separates people” instead of using a positive message to bring people together.

Laila Ali, a former boxer herself, appeared on “Huffington Post Live” in August and was asked asked about her thoughts on Black Lives Matter (BLM) and why she hasn’t been known to push the group on her own social media posts. Needless to say her answers did not sit well with BLM rioters.

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/10/05/muhammad-alis-daughter-just-gave-interview-black-lives-matter-isnt-going-like-397558#ixzz4MEmJkBmC

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Muhammad Ali’s daughter just gave an interview that ‘Black Lives Matter’ isn’t going to like…
October 5, 2016 | Warner Todd Huston | Print Article   


Many in the African American community like to use the legacy of boxing great Muhammad Ali to push their various social issues, but it appears Ali’s daughter, Laila Ali, isn’t continuing that activism to many blacks’ satisfaction. Recently she got in trouble with Black Lives Matter advocates because she won’t endorse them and said the movement “separates people” instead of using a positive message to bring people together.

Laila Ali, a former boxer herself, appeared on “Huffington Post Live” in August and was asked asked about her thoughts on Black Lives Matter (BLM) and why she hasn’t been known to push the group on her own social media posts. Needless to say her answers did not sit well with BLM rioters.

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/10/05/muhammad-alis-daughter-just-gave-interview-black-lives-matter-isnt-going-like-397558#ixzz4MEmJkBmC

hah hah yeah, their claim that her father would have endorsed the BLM movement is far off the mark too. He was an adherent of the brand of Islam that is similar to Malcom X's which preaches self-discipline, self-reliance, social responsibility, respect for others, family, compassion, community service and spirituality over worldiness / materialism. The endless tantrums, rap hip-hop decadence, anti-law enforcement, wanton violence and pursuit of permanent victim status to obtain endless freebies would never have received the endorsement of the Greatest.
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"Thank God My Granddaddy got on that boat." - Muhammad Ali, after fighting George Foreman in Zaire.

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This is so; Larry Elder, talk show host has some story that Ali was riding in a car and Larry Elder, black and American as he describes himself, was on the radio; and Ali perked up and asked who this was talking; then, Ali came to find out the talk show host was black. Ali liked the show. It's a simple story, I don't know if there is more to it.


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Isn't it rather racist to assume that just because a person has dark skin they are going to support BLM? That's like assuming all white folk support the KKK.
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Isn't it rather racist to assume that just because a person has dark skin they are going to support BLM? That's like assuming all white folk support the KKK.

Tradition is frequently stronger in the human psyche than reason. Tribalism in all its manifestation is one of the strongest social forces on the planet. People of lower education level historically display insular social and cultural proclivities. They often tend to be acutely focused on things like ethnicity as the key identifiers which bring them a feeling of kinship "us-ness" with others.

Some black people tend to feel that only another black can relate to their personal POV, needs or attitudes. Same for some people from other non-black societies such as Asians, Serbian, Armenians, Sicilians, etc. They seek out and feel stronger kinship to those who have the same or very similar background or attributes - even if those things are superfluous to their character or intelligence.

It's often not a very rational process but derives from what CG Jung called "non-rational cognition" (feelings and intuitions) which emanate mostly from the unconscious. That is why trying to use rational argument to counter such proclivities in others is useless. They did not arrive at their attitude by a rational process and cannot be dissuaded from it by a rational process.
 
Tribalism is ubiquitous to human culture and sadly supersedes / overrides rational thinking.

Jung demarcated personalities into thinking-types (more inclined to form judgments and opinions based on rational criteria like facts, figures, logic and reason) and feeling-types, (inclined to rely on feelings/intuitions more than rational information or processes to formulate their strong opinions about the world).

Guess which variety many black people who are proponents of the BLM movement fall into?
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