1 Select the correct answer.
Which statement summarizes Muhammad Ali's opposition to the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War?
OA.
He believed that the Johnson Administration's stated objectives could not be achieved.
OB.
He sympathized with the communist beliefs of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
OC.
He argued that the country's leaders should focus on correcting injustices at home.
OD
He objected to the military strategies announced by leaders of the armed forces.
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C. He argued that the country’s leaders should focus on correcting injustices at home.

“Why should they ask me
to put on a uniform and
go 10,000 miles from
home and drop bombs
and bullets on brown
people while so-called
Negro people in Louisville
aré treated like dogs”

Ali correctly believed that black Americans were fighting for democratic rights in a foreign country while being denied those same rights here in the US. He saw military service as a hypocrisy and an injustice, which is why he refused his military induction.