<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>dave wrote</title><author_name>dave (npub1ts…khtk4)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>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 &#34;I ain&#39;t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong...they never called me n****r&#34;, 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.</html></oembed>