FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Gov. Northam and the Guy Who Said: Kill People in Mixed-race Relationships
By
Selwyn Duke
It’s certainly a sign of the times that Governor Ralph Northam’s resignation has been demanded not because of an apparent endorsement of infanticide, but because of a 1984 yearbook photo. Yet another sign is how, while Virginia’s Northam is condemned for having appeared in blackface or a KKK costume, another man is being honored despite having actually appeared before a KKK rally and preaching strict racial separation.
This man expressed affection for notorious segregationist governor George Wallace (D-Ala.), regularly taunted adversaries with racial insults and even insisted that people in mixed-race relationships be killed. This man’s name was Muhammad Ali.
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While Northam’s political future has apparently been aborted, late boxer Ali was just
given the honor of having Louisville, Kentucky’s airport renamed after him.
The airport probably won’t honor him to the extent of having separate facilities for whites and blacks. Yet in accordance with his Nation of Islam doctrine, Ali did consistently preach racial separation, as in the below 1968 interview produced for PBS’ THIRTEEN.
Ali was already in his 30s when, in a 1975
Playboy interview, he insisted — adamantly — that people in black-white relationships
should be killed. No wonder Martin Luther King Jr. once
called him “a champion” — of segregation.