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How Muhammad Ali Changed America--And His Role in Malcolm X's Murder

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http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/04/how-mu...ca-and-was

EXCERPT: [...] the boxer, who would convert to the Nation of Islam (NOI) and refuse to serve in the U.S. Army when drafted. [...] "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father... Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail."

As controversially, Ali made public comments that Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965 at the orders of NOI leader Elijah Muhammad, got what he deserved....
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