Muhammad Ali
Ali is truly a universal figure; a man who authentically transcends cultural and geographical boundaries.
One may choose to focus on his extraordinary boxing skills or his strident social activism or his larger-than-life and media-friendly personality, but you cannot ultimately claim the man because you are from Louisville or are Black or an American or a Muslim.
Those who reviled him in his lifetime cannot dismantle or diminish him whatever were his faults, mistakes and limitations.
The man had long carved himself a place in humanity's consciousness. Ali's influence in so many ways will endure so long as humanity endures.
He belongs to the ages...
(C) Adeyinka Makinde (2016)
One may choose to focus on his extraordinary boxing skills or his strident social activism or his larger-than-life and media-friendly personality, but you cannot ultimately claim the man because you are from Louisville or are Black or an American or a Muslim.
Those who reviled him in his lifetime cannot dismantle or diminish him whatever were his faults, mistakes and limitations.
The man had long carved himself a place in humanity's consciousness. Ali's influence in so many ways will endure so long as humanity endures.
He belongs to the ages...
(C) Adeyinka Makinde (2016)
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