Muhammad Ali
refused to be a part of the United States (US) government’s (USG) criminal war
against Vietnam. He said, among other things, that his real enemy, meaning
white supremacy, was right here at home. Click on the following link to watch
that video: https://youtu.be/8M7_T6VuTGw
32 years
before Ali’s refusal, Major General Smedley Butler said the same thing in his
book, War is a Racket, where he denounces wars as a way to generate huge
profits for US capitalists.
In 1898, the
USG militarily invaded Puerto Rico for exactly that reason. The proof of that
is the USG’s refusal to comply, for the past 76 years, with the United Nations’
Charter of 1945 that prohibits colonialism. Puerto Rico has been a US colony
for the past 123 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otzBslJLbI0
The proof
that the US does not stand for democracy is her refusal to also comply with 40
UN resolutions asking her to immediately return Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to
the Puerto Ricans.
Muhammad
understood well what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. meant by, “Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Man’s laws
must be aligned with morality. When they are not, our resistance to injustice
is our moral imperative!
Be a champion
for justice too!
