muhammadali calls the rock the peoples champ

'She has inspired her family, her friends, now you guys here, now the world that is watching.'ĭwayne handed the young woman his trophy, and told her that ' everything that it means to be a people's champion.'Įarlier in his speech, Dwayne reminded everyone that the “original people’s champion” was Muhammad Ali whom he met as a little boy. She has fought literally for her life,' Dwayne explained. I told her how inspired I was by her story. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson did a very champ-like gesture while receiving the 'People’s Champion Award' at the 2021 People's Choice Awards on Tuesday.Īfter thanking everyone for the award onstage, the pro-wrestler turned-movie star called on a teenage girl in the audience by surprise. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. But I have said it once and I will say it again.

I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars.

This is the day when such evils must come to an end. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.

Muhammadali calls the rock the peoples champ