Original sentence: In her dismissive review of the film, New Yorker film critic Pauline asked rhetorically why Sacker and Ritt had not shown Johnson as he was perceived during the height of his success, as a proud black man who appeared in one of his publicity photos with his arms around two blonde women
Edited sentence: " Ali was fighting being drafted into the army at the time on grounds of being a conscientious objector.I was appalled at the first reaction.In a comment reflecting on both the racist theme dealt with in the play and Sackler's notion that the play is about a man fighting society, Muhammad Ali, greatly impressed with James Earl Jones' performance in the film, apparently commented to the actor, "That's my story.In her dismissive review of the film, New Yorker film critic Pauline asked rhetorically why Sacker and Ritt had not shown Johnson as he was perceived during the height of his success, as a proud black man who appeard in one of his publicity photos with his arms around two blonde women.It's a metaphor of struggle between man and the outside world.Some people spoke of the play as if it were a cliché of white liberalism, but I kept to the line straight through, of showing that it wasn't a case of blacks being good and whites being bad.That's my story.Though certainly not denying the racist issues confronted in the play, Sackler once said in an interview, "What interested me was not the topicality but the combination of circumstances, the destiny of a man pitted against society.While the play and the film are often described as being about racism, this is not, it seems, entirely how Sackler viewed his work.You take out the issue of white women and replace it with the issue of religion