…..Was a gladiator…..warrior…..and emblem of strength, conscience and courage..…a man who transcended borders, barriers, race and religion.….Cassius Clay was born on January 17, 1942..…he started boxing at the age of 12.….won several Golden Glove titles..…(100 out of 108).….went to the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy and won a gold medal as a light heavyweight…..after he was refused service at a soda fountain counter because of his color…..he threw his Olympic medal into a river…..afterwards he became a professional boxer.….and the rest is history…..he successfully defended his boxing title six times before being drafted into the U.S. Army to serve in Vietnam.….after converting to Islam.….he said that the war did not comport with his faith and that he had “no quarrel” with America’s enemy, the Vietcong…..and refused to serve.….and he explained the racism existing in America when he gave this press conference..… “My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker, 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.”…..and because of that..…he was stripped of his boxing title..…convicted of draft evasion and sentenced to five years in prison…..he was released on appeal..…and wasn’t allowed to box or leave the country..…therefore he turned to the lecture circuit.….speaking on college campuses…..where he engaged in heated debates, pointing out the hypocrisy of denying rights to blacks….. “My enemy is the white people oppressing me, not the Vietcong, or Chinese or Japanese people. You are my oppressors when I want freedom. You are my oppressors when I want justice. You are my oppressors when I want equality. You won’t even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs and you want me to go somewhere and fight but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.”…..and yes, we did lose a champion…..a champion in more ways than one….because he truly was….. “The Greatest!”
LIGHTNING STRIKE INJURES DOZENS AT GERMAN ROCK FESTIVAL….Yeah I’ve never been a fan of watching an outdoor concert.….while lightning is dancing in the sky.….I did that once at the Vermont Jazz Festival with my man K-Lyles..…never again.….42 people were hurt when Thor decided to show up.….and slam a few bolts at them.….the weather in Europe has been crazy these past two weeks.….Germany, Romania, Belgium and France…have lost lots of people and the flooding is ridiculous.….the Seine which runs through the center of Paris..…is so high they said it would take at least six weeks for it to go back to its normal size…..even the Louvre Museum is moving artworks away from the flooding.
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VOTE: TURKEY WARNS GERMANY….Oh shut up Turkey….everyone knows it happened….so just admit it for once!
DID YOU KNOW…..American has been at war 222 out of 239 years since 1776?
MEDIA BLACKOUT AS FRANCE WITNESSES BIGGEST REVOLUTION IN 200 YEARS…..Rule number one America…..if you are going to protest…..protest!…..and Europeans know how to do it…..next Friday the Euro 2016 Football Championships begin..…and a state of emergency has been extended in the country…..hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest…..and the French have a total media blackout in western media outlets…..the first protest began in March 9, 2012…..against the Socialist government.….400,000 people were disagreeing with the changes to labor laws…..April 9th…..more than 120,000 people took to the streets again for the sixth time to protest against contested labor laws.….another protest was called for on April 28th and a massive protest happened on May 1st…..with reports of the police clashing with protesters, deploying tear gas.….and in several cites…..cars were burned and windows were smashed…..Rennes 15,000…..Bordeaux 10,000…..Nantes 10,000…..Rouen 15,000…..Le Havre15,000…..people demanding a complete withdrawal of the draft reform bill..…workers stepped up rallies and blockades.….one in three gas stations are empty…..five blockades at eight of France’s oil refineries…..1/5 of the nuclear power output is cut by striking workers.….the nation’s electricity supply has dropped…..and the government is digging into its emergency reserves…..and people are pissed that the government is enacting a constitutional power to bypass parliament to pass the bill…..the new Labor Reform Bill…..would make it easier for companies to lay off staff and cut costs in difficult economic times…..allow employers to extend the working hours to 48 instead of the current 35.….and up to 60 hours with an exceptional authorization and reduce overtime from the current 25% to not less than 10%…..President Hollande says the new reform is vital to tackle joblessness…..REALLY?…..between 2013 and 2015 France created 57,000 new jobs.….Germany 482,000…..Spain 651,000.….Italy 288,000…..and both of those countries are broke!…..a majority of people are for labor reforms..…but 70% oppose the way the government is going about it…..well they better think up something quick…..because when French people are pissed…..they are really pissed…..and it’s not a pretty picture!…..and you want to hear the kind words the Mayor of Lyon had to say about the protesters?….. “Someone needs to take care of those thugs.”
OUTRAGE GROWING OVER JUDGE’S SENTENCING IN STANFORD SEX ASSAULT……This ruling is so sick…..Stanford University student Brock Allen Turner…..sexually assaulted an unconscious woman…..two people saw him doing it…..he tried to run away…..they caught him and held him down until the police arrived…..a jury found him guilty on all three counts of sexual assault…..the Prosecutors asked for him to serve six years in prison…..but Judge Aaron Persky sentenced him to..…six months in jail and probation…..even though the maximum penalty was up to 14 years..…the Judge thought..… “A longer sentence would have a severe impact on his life”……really?….. “WELL WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN’S LIFE?”…..I’m a man.….and I am so tired of the disrespect women still have to deal with…..a female student attending the University of Akron, Ohio was assaulted…..her attacker received 180 days in jail.….and only served just 3 days…..and Brock Turner’s dad said….. “His son didn’t deserve a long sentence for 20 minutes of action because he had no prior criminal history and had never been violent towards anyone”…..well Dad.….he just destroyed a woman’s life.….and you’re good with that?…..and here’s something else for you to think about..…Dad…..among college women only about 12% of rape complaints are made to the police….a woman attacked on the campus of the University of Michigan was told by a prosecutor that the case wasn’t worth pursuing…..and many women do not report rapes because they have no faith that the courts will punish their attacker.