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Related to thew great Muhammed Ali? :) (Just curious.)


His entire name is interesting and I enjoyed him sa lot in GREEN BOOK, would be the best is he WAS related to the great Black Superman, Cassius Clay (RIP many times over)

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No he isnt.

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I never even thought so.

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You know Muhammed Ali's name was Cassius Clay and he changed it right?

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Yes..

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Well, maybe Mahershala's name also was Clay and releated to the great boxer..

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You're they reason they shut movie message boards down.

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They didn't shut the boards down because of gcarras Captain Obvious. It's called censorship.

The boards were, in a sense, uniting the people. And THEY didn't want that.

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censorship lol

The imdb boards were shut down for the same reason most comments sections are disappearing: they were no longer useful. There was so much spam, rage, hate, and trolling that it became impossible to carry on an intelligent conversation.

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Some people take their pseudonyms as their official family names. So if you change 'Clay' to 'Ali' officially then your children are not Clay no more, they're Ali. So technically it very well could be that someone named Mahershala Ali is related to Muhammed Ali (being let's say his grandson). But he isn't.

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The two individuals do share a conversion to Islam. One born with the last name Gilmore the other born with the last name Clay. Fun Fact: One rapped under the name Prince Ali but is not related to the Aladdin alter ego. 😎

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