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Jun 4, 2016

Why We Should Celebrate Muhammad Ali’s Life Every Memorial Day

Muhammad Ali was a Freedom Fighter. A HERO to all nations that sacrificed his boxing career, and life, to help FREE his people.

Boxing Legend. Human. Unapologetically Black. Equality. Muslim.

Those are just a few words that fail to fully some up the complexity of a man who’s passing has all of Facebook sobbing.

Weren’t alive when he was till running through Africa? Cool. Muhammad Ali was an Olympic Gold medalist and three time heavy weight boxing champion that accomplished even more outside of the ring.

In America we often only thank military servicemen, but Ali’s refusal to fight in the Vietnam war shaped our present day live’s just as much. As a kid I remember him visiting the road race named in his honor here in Atlanta. The other day my mother proudly showed me a picture she recently took with one of his daughter’s.

He’s a hero, the man was incredible in and out the ring as he personally flew to IRAQ in 1990, met with Sadaam and negotiated the freedom of 15 US hostages while running out of Parkinson disease meds, meaning that times he could barely walk or talk but, incredibly, something still pushed him to keep going; this is only one moment in a lifetime profound.

The world’s most famous Muslim. Ever.

While driving about a month ago, as I contemplated traveling to another country to help the people, I was overtaken by echoes of ' ..i’ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people.' As a Muslim, people have been telling me that i’m going to hell since the 6th grade, so the 2016 presidential deport all muslim ideals arent shocking, or suprising, at all but today I smiled as the widespread appreciation of his essence on social media gave me HOPE. You will forever be a War HERO to me.