Salut à tous je voudrai de l’aide juste pour traduire svp The original activist-athlete
There are a couple nagging questions all successful, high-profile athletes
inevitably have to grapple with: What does it mean to have a voice? What does it
mean to truly be great? [...]
Ali's greatness extended far beyond the ropes of the boxing ring, and his voice was
more impactful than his fists. [...]
Ali was brash, bold, and unapologetically confident in his own greatness. Coming of
age in the heart of the Civil Rights movement, with racial tensions at a breaking
point, Ali refused to make himself smaller or meeker just to make others more
comfortable.
In 1960, Ali (then Cassius Clay) won a gold medal in light heavyweight boxing
at the Rome Olympics at the age of 18. He was so proud that he wore the medal all
the time upon his return to the United States-up until the moment he was refused
service at a small dinner party because he was black. That night, he threw his medal
into the Ohio River.
In 1967, he refused to be drafted to go fight in Vietnam, citing the fact that he had
converted to Islam in 1964. He was arrested, and the New York State Athletic
Commission suspended his boxing license while the World Boxing Association
stripped him of the heavyweight title.
Ali was sentenced to five years in prison, but his case was appealed and went all the
way to the Supreme Court, where his conviction was overturned in 1971. In the end,
he was banned from boxing for three years during what could have been the prime
of his career.
"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or
some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America," he said at the time.
25 “And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me,
they didn't putno dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my
mother and father... Shoot them for what?...How can I shoot them poor people?
Just take me to jail."
Muhammad Ali: the original activist-athlete, Think
Progress (2016)
MERCI d’avance
There are a couple nagging questions all successful, high-profile athletes
inevitably have to grapple with: What does it mean to have a voice? What does it
mean to truly be great? [...]
Ali's greatness extended far beyond the ropes of the boxing ring, and his voice was
more impactful than his fists. [...]
Ali was brash, bold, and unapologetically confident in his own greatness. Coming of
age in the heart of the Civil Rights movement, with racial tensions at a breaking
point, Ali refused to make himself smaller or meeker just to make others more
comfortable.
In 1960, Ali (then Cassius Clay) won a gold medal in light heavyweight boxing
at the Rome Olympics at the age of 18. He was so proud that he wore the medal all
the time upon his return to the United States-up until the moment he was refused
service at a small dinner party because he was black. That night, he threw his medal
into the Ohio River.
In 1967, he refused to be drafted to go fight in Vietnam, citing the fact that he had
converted to Islam in 1964. He was arrested, and the New York State Athletic
Commission suspended his boxing license while the World Boxing Association
stripped him of the heavyweight title.
Ali was sentenced to five years in prison, but his case was appealed and went all the
way to the Supreme Court, where his conviction was overturned in 1971. In the end,
he was banned from boxing for three years during what could have been the prime
of his career.
"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or
some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America," he said at the time.
25 “And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me,
they didn't putno dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my
mother and father... Shoot them for what?...How can I shoot them poor people?
Just take me to jail."
Muhammad Ali: the original activist-athlete, Think
Progress (2016)
MERCI d’avance
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