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Originally Posted by Butter
It is usually some form of bigotry.
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With Ali, it was unquestionably bigotry.
I don't recall it being an issue with Jabbar, partly because his name-change came 7 years later, but mostly because he was much less of a controversial figure than was Ali.
Coincidentally, Jabbar (who was still Alcindor at the time) along with Jim Brown, Bill Russell, and numerous other Black athletes supported Ali at the Cleveland Summit Project in June of 1967.
June 4, 1967: The Muhammad Ali Cleveland Summit
(Zinn Education Project)
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/t...ed-ali-summit/
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