
Ken Burns: ‘Muhammad Ali’
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'I Know I'm Here for a Purpose,' He Says
Mohammed ali is a black person who leads his life in the same way publicly as he does privately, which is to say, people of color. And by being that person, and talking about the kinds of trepidations and anxieties people color have, that's what connects him in a much more expansive a way then jack johnson. This is a man who intersects with everything, you know, the role of sports in society,. notions of black masculinity and black manhood - not as one thing, but as a many dimensional changing thing. He represented them for the hard way he understood or seemed to understand their struggles. Whether it was black people in the united states; whether
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