On September 1st 2009 boxing legend Muhammed Ali visited his ancestral home in Ireland. Muhammed Ali though he got his European blood due to slavery (see video),
but it turned out he got it from his Irish great-grandfather Abe Grady, who settled in the United States in the 1860s and married a freed African-American slave.
One of their grandchildren, Odessa Lee Grady Clay, was Ali’s mother. Abe Grady lived in the Western Irish town Ennis, and Ali was honoured as the first Freeman of his ancestral home Ennis.
I don’t know what “Freeman” means, but according to some people it means free drinks at the pub and free entrance to the disco.
In this interview Ali did know his ancestry, but still he thought his great grandfather was a slave owner. But listen to the mistake of interviewer!