"Who refused to enter the US army, saying ""I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger""?"
Nigger knew someone personally who referred to blacks by the term. Nearly one-third of whites and two-thirds of blacks said that they themselves had personally used the term in the last five years. In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War (1965–75), professional boxer Muhammad Ali said, "No Vietcong [Vietnamese soldier] ever called me nigger"; later, his modified answer was the title "No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger" (1968) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the U.S. Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam. An Ali biographer reports that, when interviewed by Robert Lipsyte in
Speaking truth to power the Vietnam war, saying; 'No Vietcong ever called me nigger...I have no quarrel with the Vietnamese people.' Vaclav Havel in his "Power of the Powerless" essay wrote: "The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the