When We Were Kings
prev.
play.
mark.
next.

:51:01
These Africans make all of us ugly.
:51:05
Sucker, look at you!
:51:08
You out, sucker.
:51:13
Ali, boma ye!
:51:15
(All chant) Ali, boma ye!
:51:18
Ali, boma ye!
:51:20
Ali, boma ye!
:51:22
That mean kill him!
:51:24
(Foreman) When I walk
down the street kids follow me

:51:27
screaming "George Foreman, bumba yu"
:51:30
er, "boma ye", yeah.
:51:32
And that hasn't...
I don't think that's so nice.

:51:35
I'd like, if they have anything
to say about me they could say

:51:39
"George Foreman loves Africa"
or "George Foreman loves being here"

:51:44
not "George Foreman, kill him,"
I don't like that.

:51:47
(Ali) Boma ye!
(Men) Boma ye!

:51:51
(Ali) George Foreman.
(Men) Boma ye! Boma ye!

:51:55
(Men cheer)
:51:58
- There he is!
- Boma ye!

:52:01
Sucker, you wasn't nothing!
:52:03
Even they understand English.
:52:05
(Bowens' translator)
'We were all for Muhammad Ali.

:52:09
'Foreman? We didn't know him.
:52:14
'Foreman said "Why?
:52:17
'"I'm black,
blacker than Muhammad Ali.

:52:19
'"Why all this bias?"
:52:23
'Yes, Muhammad Ali, he was lighter,
:52:26
'but he was a real person,
he was genuine.

:52:29
'Muhammad Ali could have been
even lighter-skinned

:52:33
'but for us
he was defending the good cause,

:52:36
'for Africans and the whole world.'
:52:38
Watch this, seven punches.
:52:41
I'm gonna fight for the prestige,
:52:44
not for me
but to uplift my little brothers

:52:47
who are sleeping
on concrete floors today in America.

:52:50
Black people living on welfare,
who can't eat,

:52:54
Black people who don't know no
knowledge of themselves or no future.

:52:59
I wanna win my title and walk down
the alleys with the wine-heads,


prev.
next.