10,000 miles away and fight a white man's war or any war for that matter. that cost him dearly in the short term but in the long term i think we the people in this country largely came around to understand and support where he was coming from. at the time he was vilified in many corners. he was always a hero to many, but in, you know, mainstream white america he was a villain. people have forgotten that. >> it's very difficult to think back to that time and how much he was hated in that time and how much he's loved now. i want to dig in deeper to something you talked about. a lot of the the film is about ali's spiritual development talking about a young christian, why is jesus white and then becoming a nation of islam figure. i feel like the cassius clay you're talking about, preparing to fight sunny liston, he became a muslim, nobody knew about it. that had a huge impact on him in the ring, giving him a