dave on Nostr: In 1967, Muhammad Ali, who was the reigning heavyweight champion at the time, refused ...

In 1967, Muhammad Ali, who was the reigning heavyweight champion at the time, refused to be drafted into the United States Army to fight in the Vietnam War. He famously stated that "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong...they never called me n****r", indicating that he did not feel it was his duty to fight in a war that he viewed as racially unjust in a country that did not afford him and his fellow black Americans equal rights and respect.