:52:01
Sucker, you wasn't nothing!
:52:03
Even they understand English.
:52:05
(Bowens' translator)
'We were all for Muhammad Ali.
:52:09
'Foreman? We didn't know him.
:52:14
'Foreman said "Why?
:52:17
'"I'm black,
blacker than Muhammad Ali.
:52:19
'"Why all this bias?"
:52:23
'Yes, Muhammad Ali, he was lighter,
:52:26
'but he was a real person,
he was genuine.
:52:29
'Muhammad Ali could have been
even lighter-skinned
:52:33
'but for us
he was defending the good cause,
:52:36
'for Africans and the whole world.'
:52:38
Watch this, seven punches.
:52:41
I'm gonna fight for the prestige,
:52:44
not for me
but to uplift my little brothers
:52:47
who are sleeping
on concrete floors today in America.
:52:50
Black people living on welfare,
who can't eat,
:52:54
Black people who don't know no
knowledge of themselves or no future.
:52:59
I wanna win my title and walk down
the alleys with the wine-heads,
:53:03
walk with the dope addicts,
the prostitutes.
:53:06
I could help people, show 'em films,
take this documentary,
:53:11
and help uplift my people
in Louisville, Kentucky;
:53:14
Indianapolis, Indiana;
Cincinnati, Ohio;
:53:17
go through Tennessee, Florida
and Mississippi
:53:20
and show Black Africans who didn't
know this was their country,
:53:25
"You look like your brothers
in Alabama, in Georgia.
:53:28
"They never knew you was over here."
:53:31
God is blessing me
and it was an accident
:53:33
to help get to all these people
:53:35
and show them films I haven't seen!
I'm well and I haven't seem them!
:53:40
Now I can get all these films, you
governments can let me take pictures
:53:45
and I can take
all this back to America!
:53:48
But - it's good to be a winner,
all I've got to do is whup Foreman.
:53:52
I realise how unfortunate
and uncomfortable it is
:53:56
for you guys to have travelled so far
:53:58
and expecting so much