Frazier, who has been bitter all those years, agreed to let bygones be bygones. I'll accept it, shake his hand, and hug him when I see him. We're grown guys. This has been going on too long. It's like we've been fighting the Vietnam War. . . .
Life's too short.
More importantly, the two heavyweight champions have set an example for us all. It is akin to accusing someone of treason, of collaborating with whites by feeding their most bigoted stereotypes about other blacks. That's bad enough. You would think, given the offensiveness of the term, that it would be used to describe only the very, very worst offenders. You got called an Uncle Tom based on how you dressed, how you wore your hair, or the color of your skin.