Shedding tears over Muhammad Ali's death while ignoring the tears of those who suffer today soils Ali's heroic legacy; extolling Ali's courage as a spokesman for truth while pillorying those who dare tell the truth now is a rejection of Ali too. Black protest is a form of black humanitarianism and, in fact, is its prelude and often its most righteous incarnation. The critical effort to see black folk as humane, as viable participants in humanitarian enterprise, is a political battle.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 244-245
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