> Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for What checkered legacy? That the country he was born in w

> Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for What checkered legacy? That the country he was born in was so broken he was willing to give up everything and go to a foreign land in hope of a better life? > Can a man endowed with genius squander it through extreme political blindness How did he squander it? He was met with racism every step of the way until he said 'fuck it' and left. I'd hardly call that squandering. This writer has a stick up his ass. Regular people just want to lead a regular life. I'm an immigrant, living in a foreign land - my parents didn't immigrate because of political beliefs. People leave because their everyday life could be vastly improved. Everyday life has nothing to do with political beliefs, because most people are a-political, as are most things we do everyday. This guy was a football player, actor and singer, not an intellectual who read Marx and Adam Smith. This story is a tragedy and an embarrassment of USA's history of slavery and racism that drove a capable citizen to abandon his country, only to find a different can of worms across the globe, not 'self-delusion'.