“Racism”: Want to Cancel Hulk Hogan? Fine, Then Muhammad Ali’s Got to Go, Too

by Selwyn Duke, New American Prophet, ©2025

(Aug. 1, 2025) — It wasn’t long after legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan’s passing that we heard the condemnations. Don’t honor him, the nattering ne’er-do-wells insisted—he was a stone cold “racist.” When evaluating this, too, I want you to consider the following quite telling and damning line:

“A black man should be killed if he’s ‘messin’ with a white woman.”

Now, ESPN’s David Dennis Jr., who sparked great controversy by writing a quite condemnatory article about Hogan while the flamboyant star’s body was almost still warm, was clear on how he feels about the man. “When you are a racist that is your legacy above all else. It’s not complicated,” Dennis unequivocally stated.

I’m glad he said that, too, because, you see, the above-quoted line about killing a white-woman-messin’ black man wasn’t actually uttered by Hogan. No, that remark, which sounds as if it could’ve been disgorged by the murderers of 14-year-old Emmett Till, was instead made by someone else:

Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.

Yes, really.

Ali made the comment in a 1975 Playboy interview, if incredulous doubters are wondering.

What’s more, when the interviewer then asked, “And what if a Muslim woman wants to go out with non-Muslim blacks—or white men, for that matter?” Ali responded:

“Then she dies. Kill her, too.”

(What Ali said between the two remarks was just as eyebrow-raising, mind you.)

So let’s review the operative principle here, again. “When you are a racist that is your legacy above all else. It’s not complicated,” right?

Right, Mr. Dennis?

This is where; however, I suspect Dennis might find that it actually is a bit complicated—because people are complicated. Heck, I think Dennis just might find his opining-pen spinning like a dervish and moving like a butterfly.

The Irish Times sure took this tack the year Ali died, 2016. “Muhammad Ali could be all too human at times,” its headline kindly stated. Aww, shucks, the cute little guy just got ahead of his skis on occasion, ya’ know? (Ali was the better part of 34 during the ’75 interview, do note.)

Hogan, though, he’s got to be in Hell (as I’ve heard internet commenters say).

In fact, the Times praised Ali for his “intellectual honesty.” The paper claimed that an “older and more reflective Ali admirably renounced such attitudes [his racist ones],” only, it provides no actual examples. This is for good reason:

None exist that I can find. I even asked Grok AI (which can scour the web like nobody’s business) if Ali had. After dancing around the issue like a young Cassius Clay danced in the ring—you’d think Grok was the man’s agent—it confessed that “there is no documented instance where Muhammad Ali explicitly repudiated his earlier racist beliefs.”

In contrast, Hogan did apologize for the negative remarks he made about black people (for whatever such apologies are worth).

Of course, Ali’s case was different because, you see, it appears that media never even confronted him about his 1975 Playboy remarks. Could you imagine a white man saying such a thing and receiving such deference? Talk about cultural affirmative action.

In reality, had Hogan uttered such a line, he also might not be subject to a cancellation attempt after death.

He likely would’ve been canceled long before.

Now, lest I be misunderstood, I have little to nothing against Ali. In fact, and I say this not to be politically correct, I like him. I’ve watched many boxing retrospectives over the decades, and not only was Ali entertaining, but it appears he generally treated those around him well, notably his longtime white trainer Angelo Dundee. (He often was unfaithful during his marriages, though, and there were four of them.) I’m neither a fan nor critic of Hogan, either, and I don’t care one way or the other about any remarks he made. I realize that some may wonder why I haven’t related his racial comments, which you can read in Dennis’s article if interested, but that’s because they’re irrelevant. The issue here is bigger: the double standard that condemns whites for indiscretions non-whites can commit with impunity.

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