not true, been some brilliant fighters. Ali said as much in a seventies interview, that they are as brilliant as anyone at least the best ones. Smart men, Cus D'amato said the top level wins because of character and intelligence. There were times in this country and even now, black males are a pariah, but earlier, someone in Ali's shoes would have had a hard time finding a good respectable job in society, even if he was a brilliant student (he wasn't). My stepdad was black, college educated, from the same generation and even in liberal, pussy seattle, he couldn't find a job for years, it wasn't until he was in his mid-forties that he actually started to put things together. Now, I know that's not every case but barring the tokens and the absolute whiz's who can't be denied, that's the way it generally was (is). Men period too, there just aren't enough respectable positions out there for every capable man, it's just the nature of our society, throw in nepotism etc.., and some of us just stop trying. I don't even worry about those things anymore, that's what i told my stepdad the last time i saw him too. I'm not doing to myself what he did to himself because of what a bunch of assholes did to him, fuck that.