What on Earth were you thinking of God when you did this senseless act to Muhammad Ali?



By Stanley Collymore

I would’ve willingly and quite unreservedly without a

moment’s hesitation gone in you place my Black

brother, inspirational mentor and my enduring

friend as I’m equally and absolutely sure that

many more not only of our Black race but

every other one would also freely have

done, but God in his supposed objective

evaluation evidently decided Muhammad Ali that

your time inexplicably had come and therefore

our earnest wishes however sincerely and

rather heartfelt were spoken and most

particularly after your last illness,

which seemingly he graciously

accepted, somehow it seemed

just couldn’t practicably for

whatever reason, he never

ever said, be realistically

entertained, sanctioned

and most certainly not

be agreed to by him.

Why not? I’m still perplexed to know and just

goes to show that even the great ostensibly

omnipotent and allegedly all-knowing

Deity actually can and does at times,

and markedly so as in this specific

situation, get things quite horribly,

rather uncomfortably and most

terribly wrong! And yes I’m

scathingly angered by this

assessment of his to take

your life on Earth away

from you Muhammad

Ali in this premature

and pointless way!

Surely Heaven has already had a superfluity of truly

great people taken away from us in this year alone.

So why the imperative need for another one who

has single-handedly done so much for his long

standing and unremittingly victimized race

specially, as well as for the rest of human

kind generally and whose irreplaceable

loss at this particular period of our

existence will not only serve to

aggravate our already escalating and egregious

societal problems that you assiduously and

diligently with creditable aplomb have

worked to alleviate Muhammad Ali;

but now with you regrettably gone

will more than likely provide an

uncalled for catalyst-situation

for greater racial intolerance akin to that

of bygone eras while simultaneously

being a disastrous body blow, and

inestimably so, to the remainder

of civilized, law-abiding and

peace-loving elements of

our routinely hard-done

by and long suffering

inclusive humanity!

© Stanley V. Collymore

6 June 2016.

Author’s Thoughts:

I’m absolute shell-shocked and indignantly angered by God’s utterly senseless and premature decision to remove Muhammad Ali from the midst of us; and to do so at a time when this infernal world that we live in needs more and NOT less people like him.

But even with him regrettably gone those like me who worshipped him, unstintingly regarded him as our mentor and fully appreciated all the commendable things that he did and carried on doing throughout his life and right up to the moment he was cruelly taken away from us are not unbowed by the state of affairs we’re left in but will in characteristic Muhammad Ali fashion relentlessly and unwaveringly carry on with his work whatever obstacles are put in our way or however insurmountable the odds against us achieving our laudable goals might appear to be; and for me that’s a categorical promise!

And so my inspirational mentor and friend your earthly departure is not the end, for in me personally and I’m sure millions more globally both you and your impressive legacy will continue to be enduring factors in our individual and collective lives. And accordingly as a tribute to you conjoined with an indebted appreciation for all that you’ve generously and admirably done I’ve penned this personal motto in Latin specifically for you and in your remembrance Muhammad Ali: “Vos autem sicut homines raro. Mortuus est semel, sed solum vivat in aeternum!” Translated into English it reads: “People like you are rare; die only once but live eternally!” And in German: “Leute wie Sie sind selten; nur einmal gestorben, sondern ewig leben!