RIP Joe Frazier

Ali brutalized Ernie Terrell for refusing to call him Ali.

 

The Rev. Jackson couldn't resist the race card in his eulogy:


"Tell them Rocky was not a champion. Joe Frazier was," [Jackson] said, referring to the hometown character from the boxing movie, "Rocky," and whose statue stands at the base of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Tell them Rocky is fictitious, Joe was reality. Rocky's fists are frozen in stone. Joe's fists are smokin'. Rocky never faced Ali or Holmes or Foreman. Rocky never tasted his own blood. Champions are made in the ring not in the movies. There deserves to be a statue of Joe Frazier in downtown Philadelphia."

 

"race card?"

Seriously?

 

Don't see the race card here?

However, Jackson is dead-on right.

It's a fucking shame the way that city treated Frazier.

 

Jesse Jackson is an idiot. The city loved Joe Frazier. He just wasn't as popular or as charismatic as Ali. Incidentally, Kobe Bryant's mom, Pam, lived in the house Ali owned when he lived in Philly.

 

Then why is Rocky - a fictional character - the one with a statue?

 

Mr. Jackson was pointing out the city's modest affections for Joe - versus its rabid, tourist-dollar obsession with a movie character. Not sure why this is so hard to understand.