Solving The Housing Crisis
“I got just the place for lost-cost housing. I have solved this problem. I know where we can build housing for the homeless: golf courses. Perfect, golf courses. Just what we need: plenty of good land in nice neighborhoods. Land that is currently being wasted on a meaningless, mindless activity. Engaged in primarily by white, well-to-do male businessmen, who use the game to get together to make deals to carve this country up a little finer among themselves.”
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The Government Wanted Muhammad Ali To Change Jobs
Wikimedia Commons: Trikosko, Marion S., photographer
“He couldn’t work for a while. Of course, he had a strange job, beating people up…Government wanted him to change jobs. The government wanted him to kill people. He thought it over, and he said, ‘no that’s where I draw the line. I’ll beat ‘em up, but I won’t kill ‘em.’ And the government told him, ‘well if you won’t kill ‘em, we won’t let you beat ‘em up.’”