Muhammad Ali

I wanted to say something about this well known legend my hero because in life he lived he was and is a good man. The mainstream media has already reported his death and I say to them those who write professionally well done you did an excellent job but of course why else would such professional people be where you are while I am here little known just a Joe Blow on the street corner trying to survive like everybody else dodging death all around me and trying not to get killed by the enemy. Growing up in a crime ridden city of California kept me busy as there were parts of the urban city where looking over my shoulders was a must as muggings and murder of people I knew was not foreign to me. But let me get back to Muhammad Ali. I had something in common with him as far as belonging to a racial group known as minorities. I never met him but I drew closer to him on account of I too am suffering and battling Parkinson's a disease that no one should have nor would I wish it on my worst enemy. I did see him on one of his last televised exposure to the public and like my father God showed mercy and allowed both my father and Muhammad to die because their suffering was not dignified and there is widely believed by mainstream medical science that there is no cure for Parkinson's. The health workers other than those in the medical science department tell me there is a cure for Parkinson's. I know what it is like to have Parkinson's and what it is like not to be white and I know what it is like to have been a high school athlete and compete with other players in a organized athletic league. I spoke to former radio talk show host Ray on the air about how Muhammad Ali was my hero and he still is as his soul is alive and can never be destroyed as far as I am concerned. Let us put it plain and simple he Muhammad Ali stood up to the man(the establishment) and said he wasn't going off to war and fight the enemy because they never called him a derogatory word pertaining to his racial ethnicity where as in America it was and still exist the discrimination of people of color. I spoke indirectly to David Duke once the former grand dragon of the Klu Klux Klan when John McCain was running for an office and is it excusable to call other people racial names with derogatory intent. John McCain it is said was a brave man to have gone off to war right or wrong and support this country of America as did my friend Ralph Burnette a buddy of mine who studied with poor grades at my high school but improved upon his performance and went on to graduate at the Naval Academy at Annapolis Maryland where later he did serve in Vietnam as did some of my other buddies but the war there was all wrong and of course a very unpopular war. Muhammad Ali however stood out in the same way but defied his going to a war where he saw no reason to aid in the slaughter of a civilian population who he felt were defending themselves against a hostile nation that made the initial attack and invasion upon their territory. He stood up against the establishment but went to jail for what he believed was right. Not being an expert on the Constitution of the United States of America I believe Muhammad Ali was pardoned by the Supreme court of The United States. When Muhammad Ali speaks he is heard for a poet he is and his words he spoke in rhyme do rhyme and catches the listener by the tail enough to make a grown man wail. I would like nothing more than to debate David Duke and tell him there is not enough room at the top and no racist should ever have leadership at the top. Was it not the great former President Abraham Lincoln who said in his very important speech that all men are created equal? I shall never forget his speech in his Gettysburg address not because I was required to study history in school all throughout my youth but because there is good reason and logic to the reasons why we are here with a purpose in mind for the all of us and in this way we will obtain peace not war. Finally in his later years of his endeavors we see Muhammad Ali stricken with Parkinson's as not a demented man with lost of good judgement but as a good will ambassador who could speak well. He made this world a better place for the all of us. Did not God say thou shall not kill as one of his commands yet his human commanders gave Muhammad Ali orders to fight the enemy to be killed. Let me say this for Muhammad when he did say he was the greatest he was not kidding. But I believe he did listen to his God and this in my "demented" mind is not the Christian God but a Muslim God his God given right to worship whoever he wanted to worship.