Those Chinese guys thanking him....

ALL non-white ethnic minorities felt kinship with Mohammed Ali - his very name represented a rejection of western hegemony and he is a sucess in the west but on his own terms nonetheless.

He legally beat the white US government which wanted him to kill non-whites in Vietnam when it was, as he identified, the same white US government that wanted to make non-white US people like him as second -class

A real man & leader of all the people of whatever race who have no true representation in the political, business and media classes then or now

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They had money bet in the Jerry Quarry fight.

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Why were they thanking Ali?

I still haven't figured it out.

I have?

I think its alot of what poster triumph-tsx said in his comments about Ali being a self-made man who made himself successful through hard work but wasn't a "white man's lapdog" who did as he was told by society in general etc. Although i truly think, those 3 asian people in the film who wanted to thank him so badly were; "Vietnamese" not Chinese per se. And they were thanking Ali for NOT getting involved in the Vietnam war at all!!!

Think the scene is suppose to subiminaly relate to Ali's controversial comments when he said and stated; 'No Viet Kong ever called him n*gg*r'. The scene in the film is showing us either a group of; Vietnamese or Asians on holiday in Zaire who wanted to thank him personally when they saw him outside the hotel.

Took me a while to figure it out myself but i think thats what we're suppose to be getting and understanding from that very brief scene when one of them wanted to personally shake Ali's hand etc.


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Name's Django, The "D" is silent.

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I think those are Vietnamese guys thanking him for standing up against the war in Vietnam.

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But Ali wasn't Afrocentric.

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