seat belt. she said superman don t need no airplane either. when you look at mohammed ali and kareem abdul-jabbar you have two men who are very, very similar, but who are also very, very different. one similarity is that both men changed their names. ali changed his name from casious clay. what he called his slave name. for similar reasons, kareem changed his name from lou alcinder when he was 24 years old. although he had first met ali in 1976 at ucla, kareem would get to know him much better after ali refused to fight in vietnam. he pushed boundaries because he came about at a time when black americans were supposed to be very thankful for the opportunities they got and not rock the boat. and he really understood that our war in vietnam was immoral and illegal and he said something about it. and he was not going to go serve