RIP Sir Michael Parkinson (March 28, 1935 - August 16, 2023), aged 88 And RIP Muhammad Ali (January 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016), aged 74 You both will be remembered as legends.
Lol i lnow! I've tried to argue this same point to my wife and she said I sounded racist. Lol. Nah, I just think races are sacred and people re more at peace and happy with their own.
This interview is fascinating because it shows how complicated this subject is. People applauded when, Ali, a black man, effectively defended racial segregation, yet a white person saying the same thing would instantly lose their career, then or now. What he is actually saying is that people value their own culture, not their own race. Judging by the comments below it seems that many people agree with his point of view, although he subsequently amended it. I agree with Parkinson, who says that we are more malleable than other animals, but I think Ali puts his case well. I wish we were free to debate this openly but there are too many prescriptions on what we can and can't say at present.
you are right...this subject will become one of the big debates of the 21st century...preservation of culture vs genetic mixing...a lot needs to be discussed
Ali speaking truth. It's not racist to wanna be around people that look like you, talk like you and have the same faith and interests as you. It's human nature
Yeah. That's why Africans are moving to white majority countries at every chance they can get. Strange how there are no black immigrants desperately trying to get to Africa.
@@myname604 Oh yeah? That’s interesting. I’d love to read that. Sometimes people make claims without the resources to back it up. Will you please share the source info? I highly doubt you’re one of those douchebags.
@@TheRealBizWiz RU-vid forbids me from posting certain words and links and besides that it is forbidden topic, only found in a certain ethnic groups web sites that are currently bombing women and children in the middle east and saying Hamas is using women and children as human shields to justify why they target Hamas by bombing women and children.
No woman will satisfy him like black american woman. Well, he had 7 of them and he kept changing. Anyway, I love Muhammad Ali. His peaceful tone in his voice. He was a beautiful man.
I agree with a lot of what he is saying. Sounds like he's against miscegenation. I am too. All people should want to be with their own race. I simply am not attracted to black women and that is all right. It doesn't mean I am racist. I think it's a beautiful thing to see a black couple holding hands.
@@sg5587 A better question might be why black women rate absolute lowest in desirability among _every_ group. I can't imagine the (very truthful) 'kwaene' stereotype helping things.
Ali was a brilliant man in many ways. Like earlier in this same interview he annihilates conventional attitudes to boxing in a few short sentences. But this segregationist doctrine given to him by The Nation of Islam was completely at odds with his civil rights work (and, in my opinion, his whole personality). A very understandable reaction to having grown up in a white supremacist society that hated his people. Like Malcolm X, he later renounced statements like this.
He isnot wrong. You can go to US and say San Francisco and you know most black people are there. People live like ALI said. It's true. Accept or not. It's a fact.
I was 11 years old when I first watched this interview. My parents had allowed me to stay up late to watch it because it was Ali - the Greatest. I had no idea what he was talking about and just laughed along with the audience laughing. t's amazing to see this 50+ years on and see how indoctrinated Ali was - a race baiter par excellence and a divisive bully.
This is 2022. Muhammad ali , one of the most respected public figures and human rights activist speaks openly & honestly, with nobody able to discredit his lifestyle.however, heaven forbid he was white, all hell would break loose amongst the chip on the shoulder " world owes us"people. This should be aired all over the world on all tv stations. But yeah...things have changed for the worse in 2022....the TRUTH is uncomfortable and offensive, & LIES ARE COMFORTING in this new generation of entitlement privlege based on skin color . How is it acceptable to get prefrence and fastracked to the front of a queue based on the color of your skin??? There is no justification for that ,no matter what pathetic poor me reasons about the past one can bring up.....
This is indeed separatism. Ali's metaphor of "blue birds want to be with blue birds, red birds want to be with red birds' has some explanatory value, until one remembers that humans are the same species, no matter what the color. So, as compelling as his argument is, it is based on a false equivalency.
The attack on same ethnic/race families is strong. What is wrong with staying within you ethnicity? Erasing peoples race and cultures is shameful; "separatism" is a trigger word used by liberals.
@@budgetcoinhunter Domestic dogs and wolves are the same species but differ genetically in such a way as to make lab safer to play with than a wolf. Experts say Dalmatians, cocker spaniels and chows aren't good with kids either, so I don't understand your point. My point is that Muhammad Ali today is all but canonized as a humanitarian and unifier, however if you go back to the 70's you'll find that he advocated a much more radical solution to racism that is invidious to today's ears.
@@budgetcoinhunter No, but I think that Ali's separatist ideas are a historical fact that has been white-washed out of the public memory. I admire Ali as much as anyone, but much of what he said in 1971 is invidious to 2023 ears
How resentful Ali was in this conversation. No see biracial couples in England or USA doesn't mean is because is racist. Is cultural. Educate and you'll see no difference
THIS WAS THE REALIST SHIT TODAY! ALL HAIL TO THE LATE ALI! Overall, this is real truth... and they like to play games when it comes to this Melanin! WE LOVE OUR FOUNDATIONAL BLACK FAMILY...PERIOD! WM>NFM.
I understand but you look back at some of the ideals that Martin luther King and Nelson Mandela had as early as the 60's which showed you what great men and how forgiving they were as they preached incluivness of all races and for everyone to be equal. But yes it is understandable ALI had these views. My family are from Yugoslavia, and the Albanian and Bosnians hated the Serbians and Vice versa , lead to a war where 200,000 people died in total in the 1990's. To this day my family still dislike Serbians although my views are more liberal.
What Muhammad Ali is saying is 100% correct. Spot on. It's just so sad he's not still around. If a white person said today what he is saying over 50 years ago they would be vilified.
I'm white and respect the black-man for what he is, in turn the black-man respects the white man for what he is. The Aristotelian logic of this is that we respect each other for what we are. Then comes multiculturalism and messes everything up......why and who has done this. Well read the Protocols of The Elders of Zion for the explanation of why......
@@Blueshirt38 Sure! They get the culture they're most comfortable with, and we get the one we're most comfortable with. Why do you seem to hate peace so much?
It's weird how they will go to GREAT lengths to make you feel some kind of way about loving YOURSELF and your People. That's Code! I'm never loving anyone more than US. That's why we suffer greatly to this damn day! Those of Us who are the frequency, we will find each other soon enough! We are all we got and all we need! Time to please The Most High, and The Ancestors! WM>NFM.
Can't believe so many here agree and even say his brilliant by thinking that way. I only see a man who segregates people by color and deep down with a big low self-esteem. Was he a healthy spirit would see him anyone as human beings
How times have changed, now every interracial couple is proud of their children and out in public and happily embrace it so Ali was wrong about that point
I think he had to get his point across in very few words because of the pace that Ali was talking and at times interrupting him. To me he was simply disagreeing with the proclaimed destiny that people of certain races should stick with their own, not that there was anything wrong with people choosing to do that. Just that it wasn’t carved in stone to be that way.
@@sandrasheppard3106 What a staggeringly ignorant comment. You are truly pathetic. You should just accept that some people don't have the same views as you.
@@ppuh6tfrz646 I do accept that others don't believe. I also don't call them "ignorant" and "pathetic" as you have. I pity them but do not attack them.
Things were very different back then. Many black people could not forgive white people for their actions when only a few years ago they were not even allowed in the same shop. He is wrong however and he Changed his views
You can be an African national socialist, an Arab national socialist. The state of Israel is essentially a NS state. The ideology will look different in each case as it reflects the different racial characteristics of different peoples, but it's not inherently exclusive to Germans.
@@lance-biggums Excellently stated. It sounds unintuitive as all hell, but by being for your own people, National Socialist ideology is the one ideology that all nations can adopt and prosper from.
Ali was not right just because bluebirds fly with bluebirds and red birds fly with red birds doesn’t mean a future of purple birds wouldn’t be beautiful
Ali had some very hypocritical and archaic views towards mixed-race relations, considering his own mother was half-white and his grandson, Nico, is of mixed race too. While he may prefer to keep within his own race, which is fine, to say that children of mixed race marriages are "half-brown, kinky-haired black people" basically saying they are a blight on the human race. Is that what he thought of Nico??
If you think we should be like birds you deny our humanness, we are the children of God, and we will create. To deny evolution is to deny progress, which is simply the road to extinction. Evolution is happening, and continues, till Gods will be done. When Ali changed his name he still stayed living in the past, it would be better he renamed as, Lionel (The Champ) Bellguardis, or maybe Titum Collosifor from the world Humania. Ali was a great competitor, a talker, it would have been difficult not to buy a car from this man, but resistance to backward pressure is what pushes us forwards to a future we are yet to live.
You should take a look into DNA analysis of the sub-Sarahan and see just how much we White Europeans _do not_ share with them. it's clear we progressed, whereas they wound up interbreeding with an earlier hominid like H.Erectus and taking in archaic DNA.
Ali was just explaining segregation without saying the word, saying white people and black people can’t be together and understand each other is absolutely disgusting and bigoted
The difference is that black and white can breed together. We are the same species. The pigeons and eagles are not. Someone should have pointed that out at the time. Parkinson tried to. It’s society’s boundaries not biological. Ali was a victim of some snake oil selling white hating guy at the time. I forget his name. But it was all reverse racism and segregation coming from the other side.
Ali was 100% right. Look up sickle cell anemia. Look up regression to the mean. Look up how difficult it is to find compatible tissue donors for mixed race people. The GOAT wasn't wrong at all.
@@ThaCyNiQ And he's completely right. When H.Sapiens reached Europe, he found the remnants of H.Neanderthalensis, and interbred with them, gaining in cranial mass, losing the prognathic nose and jaw, as well as shortening and straightening the femur bone. South of the Sahara Desert, H.Sapiens met and interbred with other archaic hominids, such as H.Erectus and H.Habilis. As a result, the nose widened and flattened, the jaw and nose became _more_ prognathic (no, seriously. Take a good look at a profile view of an African woman's face some time. That mouth and nose almost looks like a flat-out _muzzle_ or _snout_ at times), and so on. Both groups have progressed on different paths, acquiring differing features and living in completely different biomes long enough to qualify as separate species. That taxonomists don't recognize this shows dishonesty.
@@lance-biggums So saying that people should not have a relationship with someone with a different skin colour is not wrong? Maybe you should just crawl back under that racist rock you slithered out from.
That's full of logical fallacies. Different species of birds stay appart because they re of different species and therefore can't have offsprings, by definition. Dogs do mate even if they look different because they are of the same specie. And even if he was right, he is assuming that we should do like animals, is this always true? Should we always take animals as examples? He says god made us this way, this still remains to be proven. Anyway, even if we didn't like something about ourselves we would just make up a story saying that that thing is so because of a fault in humans and not thanks to God, like our different languages that are supposedly the result of Babel. We make up the stories we want depending on the conclusion we want to reach. He does what he wants but he shouldn't tell others to think like him. And yes, he was a product of his time and culture, but so were Napoleon and Hitler and we still hold them responsible for their opinions, and I think we are right to do so.
And the lion and tiger can breed and produce the massive tigon, or the liger. Does that then make them the same species? What about dogs, wolves and coyotes? I'm sure there are coywolfdogs out there. Which canid do you leave your child with, a Labrador or a Grey Wolf? Hell, our own history has us H. Sapiens interbreeding with H. Neanderthalensis in Europe. Do Neanderthals suddenly jump species and become H. Sapiens then?
Ali was always a horrible racist all his days he should remember it was a white man that trained him guided him and made him the champion that he was shame he never fought Marciano he would have KO Ali in early rounds
