Carolina Quotes[T]hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner? … Had I been black and my name Cassius Clay, I damned well would have changed it!
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“[T]hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man.…” Howard Cosell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-0850BFCCF8. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/0850bfccf8
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