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Feb 12, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
I would like to have seen how a young Mohamad Ali would have reacted to Mr. Barack Obama’s inauguration to the White House as the new President of the United States of America.
I conceived this flamboyant show-man as donning his boxing gear, and with a burst of uproarious jubilation rush into the middle of the mammoth inauguration crowd.
And with dancing feet coupled with fists so fleet, unleash flurries of combinations, heavy straight rights and devastating uppercuts as an optimistic indication that all racial discrimination which had hitherto hindered black Americans from racial equality and from exercising their human rights was at last knocked out!
This exuberant, characteristically out spoken and loquacious greatest heavy-weight off all time, would have yelled: “It’s all over” to the explosive applause of the elated gathering.
It’s all over, the bumps and kinks are out, I’m ready for Joe, he echoed confidently after his two successful warm up fights to rid himself of the ring rust, after three and a half years out the ring, subsequently to having his boxing licence revoked, for having refused US conscription or being drafted into the US Army.
In a national and international context, the bumps and kinks which impeded America’s progress in different aspects will hopefully be over under Obama’s presidency. In this regard, Ali might have spoken pertinently and effusively. Traits of his character, after he won gold at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, he returned to America and there after ordered hamburgers at a restaurant, but the waitress snubbed, “We don’t serve niggers here”.
“Neither do I eat them” quipped Ali, the then Cassius Clay. Part of Mr. Obama’s inauguration speech read: “This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed…why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath”, Kaieteur News, 2009-01-21.
Ali might have reacted hilariously on having heard such a moving speech because he was snubbed at a restaurant in his native land, despite the fact that he had brought fame to the USA by having won gold.
I would have loved to have seen how a young Mohamad Ali would have reacted to Mr. Obama’s inauguration to the White House as the new President of the United States of America.
George Carrington
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