Laila Ali is pregnant

**Sweetie** · March 27th, 2008, 12:51 PM

It was called rope a dope, not dope on a rope. Thanks though. And tell Tyson that about guns a blazin', he had no problem doing it in his prime.

**Lalique** · March 27th, 2008, 12:56 PM

yeah, but dope on a rope sounds better

*DIVA! · March 27th, 2008, 01:02 PM

Mike Tyson had pent up anger that he used in and out of the ring.

Laila Ali is a very beautiful woman, I hope they have a happy, healthy baby.

I Live Her Dad!!!

**Sweetie** · March 27th, 2008, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by IheartParis

yeah, but dope on a rope sounds better

Suits him better anyway.

**sweetness** · March 27th, 2008, 03:11 PM

Aww, congratulations to them!

She is a beauty.

**HWBL** · March 27th, 2008, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by kingcap72

There's a huge difference between dodging the draft and outright refusing to go to war. Dodging the draft means that you go off and hide, or join the National Guard, to avoid punishment. Ali got locked up and had his titles stripped from him because he refused to go to war, and he took that punishment.

And if Ali is such a racist then why do so many people, of all colors, admire him so much? And he wasn't a lazy boxer, he allowed other boxers to tire themselves out and he took advantage of it, just like the majority of boxers do. And a lot of boxers modeled their style of fighting after Ali.

ITA:

Hating people because of their color is wrong.
And it doesn't matter which color does the hating.
It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali

Originally Posted by kingcap72

Agree with you on BOTH points.

My father's got a picture that Ali autographed for him back in the 60's, and I plan to get that picture one day.

You're so lucky. Treasure it.

**Sweetie** · March 28th, 2008, 07:57 AM

He loves everyone though?

Ali made a point of dating only black women and lashed out at men and women who engaged in interracial sex. In an interview with Playboy, he declared: "A black man should be killed if he's messing with a white woman." When the interviewer asked about black women crossing the colour barrier, Ali responded: "Then she dies. Kill her, too."

The Playboy journalist, who interviewed the boxer, was closer to the mark when he observed of his subject: "You're beginning to sound like a carbon copy of a white racist." ... The transformation of Ali from a great fighter to a celebrated man of conscience and social purpose has succeeded so well because the actual history of his career has been altered to reflect the kinder, gentler man of today. Unpleasant remarks or facts from the past have been swept away or excused. ... A more historically accurate appraisal of Ali would conclude that he was far from heroic outside the ring and was pitifully misused by his masters in the Nation of Islam. For his purposes, Elijah hijacked the impressionable young man's career and filled his head with racist nonsense.
By the time he finally broke free of the old Nation of Islam, in the 1970s, his career was in its last stages. He continued to fight long past his prime, in part to recover the money and time he had lost in his misadventures with the Black Muslims.

**sparkly** · March 28th, 2008, 11:23 PM

^I think the same thing is true with Ronald Reagan. A lot of people refuse to say a negative thing about him today, and act as if he was the best thing that ever happened to the USA. That's not fooling me, because I know for a fact that he was trashed for his beliefs. People tend to look at people differently when they get old or pass away.