# Hate Speech In Ali RIP Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 6, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-speech-in-ali-rip-thread/756654 "2016-06-06T14:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-speech-in-ali-rip-thread/756654/16 "2016-06-06T22:58:17Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It doesn’t appear to be anything Ali said about himself. The phrase appears in his autobiography _The Greatest_, but Ali is quoting [Judge Aaron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Edward_Aaron), who was castrated by the KKK, who asked him “you one of them loud-mouthed Martin Luther King niggers?” > > [Here.](https://books.google.com.pa/books?id=tSGpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT307&lpg=PT307&dq=ali+loud+mouthed+nigger&source=bl&ots=MhzypL5su6&sig=HRubnW9K4IwBHDy0ZlKjzzNor4c&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ali%20loud%20mouthed%20nigger&f=false) Yeah, that doesn’t match what **Little Pig** claimed either. Here is **Little Pig’s** claim (with the n-word elided, since the mods are objecting to it): > [@The Greatest of All Time has died.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-of-all-time-has-died/756468/33): > > I never said Ali wasn’t a great boxer, Frank. Maybe you can help with the following. There was a documentary about his disease and retirement done in the late 80’s or early 1990’s. Ali was interviewed and when reflecting upon his youth he said, “I was nothing but a loud mouthed **n-word** ”. > > I was floored by his statement. The documentary is out there Frank. Wanna help find it? Lemme know. So Little Pig’s claim is that he heard Ali call himself the n-word in a documentary. That’s the thing that I said I can’t find any evidence for that claim. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hate-speech-in-ali-rip-thread/756654)._