Cassius X: Becoming Ali | movie | 2023 | Official Teaser - video Dailymotion

Cassius X puts a period of often-overlooked history into the spotlight – the period when Cassius Clay fought his way t | dG1fTjF5NzQ1SS1hbVE

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00:00 It is always asked, "What do the Muslim want?

00:05 What is they after?"

00:07 We believe the black man should be free

00:11 from the names imposed upon him by his former slave master.

00:17 Cassius Clay.

00:21 He was box office.

00:24 Anywhere he went, he could create a crowd.

00:27 I was truly infatuated with this man.

00:30 You're standing in front of my castle.

00:32 From the first moment, I was in love.

00:34 Whatever you do, pay to get in.

00:37 The civil rights movement is just about to explode.

00:42 Young black folks are hungry for something different.

00:45 White America wants Cassius Clay to be the good guy.

00:50 You didn't know what Islam was.

00:55 He and Elijah Muhammad really gave everything

00:58 that was going on in his life at the time a purpose.

01:01 The nation of Islam were thought of as an ominous, shadowy group.

01:07 White people who are guilty of white supremacy

01:09 try and hide their own guilt by accusing

01:11 the Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy.

01:15 While he was like a younger brother for my father,

01:19 he was a bigger brother for me,

01:21 and it was stopped right in the middle.

01:23 When the Honorable Elijah Muhammad cuts a man off,

01:25 well, then he's automatically cut off with all of his followers.

01:28 He would not follow a student of the teacher.

01:30 He'd follow the teacher himself.

01:32 I am the leader!

01:34 He is someone who says, "I want freedom,"

01:37 and I have to do that by tying myself back to my identity.

01:41 Whatever you call me, you're not going to call me out of my name.

01:45 And from now on, my name is Cassius X.

01:52 I'm free to be what I want to be and think what I want to think.

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