The changing name and refusing to kill millions of innocent people are not related. He dropped his slave name. As racist as the USA is today, it was 1000 times worse in Ali's days. Ali grew up in the Jim Crow days, when there were very few good people in the American South. The USA didn't even become democratic until 1964.
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967),[1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage as violations of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Tuskegee syphilis experiment on unwitting black people didn't end until 1972. This is Nazi shit. I'm exaggerating? If those experiments would have been carried out on Jews, everybody would have been up in arms. The fact that it has to be white people that are being experimented on for us to be upset even today is evidence enough how racist the society still is. Again, now picture the shithole the USA was in Ali's days. Black people getting killed for exercising their right to vote. 1-2 million children needlessly being slaughtered in Vietnam. Granted, the USA did it all over again, albeit only killing tens of thousands of children this time around. America seems to hate children for some reason. USA is one of only 3 countries where you legally can marry and rape children as young as 10. Saudi Arabia and Yemen are the others.
Just samples of the legalized child rape going on in the USA
Silence on this is consent. Every American silent on this is no better than the pedophiles and rapists. Every one of those cowards is an absolute piece of scum.