Out of respect for the recently deceased legend and hard fighting political activist I shouldn’t be having opinions about how Ali would have felt towards his daughters recent stance. But it’s hard not to think this way.

Ali backed down to no-one, he went to prison to fight his beliefs. He was a man of his word.

Laila, she deserves a lot of respect. Although Boxing isn’t my thing, she has really pushed the boundaries as a woman in the sport. However, she isn’t very active when speaking up against racial injustice, speaking for or about Black Lives Matter.

She has come under attack for not posting about Black Lives Matter to facebook and she spoke to the Huff Post to defend her position.

The Huff reported:

Ali explained to host Jacques Morel that she doesn’t find social media to be an appropriate platform for communicating her desire for racial equality.

“By me not posting, it doesn’t mean that black lives don’t matter,” she said. “To me, it’s obvious that black lives matter. And then… I’m like, what is posting going to do? What is speaking out going to do?”

With sponsors and millions of Facebook fans, Ali said she has to be careful when posting content online because of her diverse following. “I don’t ever like to make people feel separate,” she said. It’s for this reason that she says she appreciates all aspects of diversity and inclusion.

“Yes, black lives matter. Yes, white lives matter, asian lives matter. All lives matter,” she said. “And that’s kind of what my focus is. But it’s hard because, you know, you’ve got sponsors and you’ve got this and you’ve got that. And you don’t want to step on anybody’s toes. And you’re trying to be politically correct, but at the same time trying to uplift your people.”

Using her children as a metaphor, Ali explained that it’s important to understand the impact and change people can have within their own homes.

“I would think about what can I do as a family to take responsibility for our actions,” she said. “So, I think as black people, we have to do the things that we can do to make a change within our own community within ourselves first and then let the trickle effect happen.”

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So, lets get this right? She has sponsors shutting her mouth and she doesn’t want to upset white fans? Seriously, that’s utter BS!

Do you have any sympathy for her views and position?