January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

|12/22/03 12:05:43 AM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|ALI/FRAZIER ALI
/ FRAZIER I’M TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT THEM, LET ME SAY THIS ALI HIT FRAZIER
MORE IN THE FIRST FIGHT BUT FRAZIER GOT THE KNOCKDOWNAND LANDED THE HARDER
PUNCHES, WINNER FRAZIER, THE OTHER 2 FIGHTS ALIHANDS DOWN, BEAT FRAZIER TO A
PULP IN FIGHT 3, JOE SO STUPID THAT HE STATEDONCE THAT “ALL YOU HAVE TO DO
IS LOOK AT THE FILM AND YOU KNOW WHO WONALL OF THE FIGHTS , MEANING
HIMSELF!!! FRAZIER IS OUT TO LUNCH, OVERRATED WHEN IT COMES TO THE ALL TIME
GREATS, HIS LEFT HOOK WOULD MEAN NOTHING ON TODAYS FIGHTERS, I KNOW PEOPLE
WILL DISAGREE, STOP LIVING IN THE PAST,|
|12/22/03 12:09:17 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Forest, it
is true that other war protesters didn't have the means and lawyers to drag
their case out but the threat of Ali going to prison was very real. But
fighting for what one believes in doesn't always mean picking up a gun. It can
mean risking going to prison, which a lot war protestes didn't do. There are
some who did go to jail for refusing being drafted into the military and whether
or not I agree that they were right for doing so, I respect them for standing up
for what they believe in. Personally, I likely would have gone into the
military but who's to say as I was too young when the Vietnam war was going on
and I have never had to face that decision, one way or the other.I
didn't know Rosa Parks' protest was organized. It still doesn't change the
significance of what she did.I can understand why back in the sixities
if black people didn't want to fight for a country that always talked about
being for freedom while at the same time denying them a lot of basic
freedoms.Even here in the Los Angeles area, blacks were not allowed to
be in certain areas. My mother commented that as a little girl, she and her
friends used to like sitting in the balcony at a movie theater, where all of the
black people sat and she used to think it was lucky that these people got to sit
up high. She didn't realize until later they were not allowed to sit down
below. I HOPE THIS TALK OF RACE DOESN'T BREAK OUT INTO NAME CALLING AGAIN. I
WILL ANSWER COMMENTS DIRECTED MY WAY REGARDING THIS ISSUE FOR A SHORT TIME BUT
NOT FOR LONG.|
|12/22/03 12:25:55
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Kent -Ali
and Foreman both received IQ scores in the 70s via the military. All one need do
is listen to either one to know that both are extremely bright men. When you
could understand Ali, that is - one rather side note on that was one time when
he was on, they had to close caption what he was saying on the screen. Their
performance in the ring is further indication of their high functioning brains,
as it is with any top athlete. However, IQ tests do have an educational and
cultural bias, and both men were woefully lacking in both. Ali was basically a
man-child, wondrous about elementary things, fearful of others on a childish
level. He was afraid to go into the military for many reasons. My point was not
an overlay or indictment of civil rights, but rather to dispel the notion of Ali
as a serious and mystic thinker who "stood up for his beliefs" (also widely held
to be deeply rooted), the source of much of his aura then in the radical 60s,
more so today, now that legend has had a chance to hone the edge. I think it's
also called being a phony! :-)|
|12/22/03 12:28:39
AM|Rpadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|P -That
was the Exorcist, BTW, not the Omen. Thanks for another entertaining rant though
- beats the heck out of your "boxing posts!" :-)|
|12/22/03 02:08:33 AM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com||||10|Hi RS - how
many times have you seen the Exorcist ? Slow motion and frame-by-frame ? Liked
it that much, huh ? You even know Ali's army IO tests. Is there anything about
him that you haven't researched or don't know ? Isn't your compulsion becoming a
little bit obsessive and worrying ? Your know-all rants are great reading, too,
although the hate and vitriol towards Ali is getting a little repetitive.