Hana added, “That’s just inevitable because of who he is…” I started to understand.” Hana expressed that her father would sit her and her siblings down and explain that the world would treat them better, and that they would have special treatment. I was just three or four years old and of course later people would try to explain to me that my father was respected and loved for the stance he took and that he was a great boxer. She reflected on the experiences that all happened right through her eyes. Hana was a witness to her father’s most memorable moments of his career. She said, “It was an experience… I remember as a little girl just seeing the adulation that his fans would give him and walking through airports and feeling this thunderous vibration in my chest as everyone would stop and applaud as we walked upon a plane and/or walked into a room and I remember thinking why are they clapping or why do they love him so much?” She expressed during her childhood she didn’t feel any pressure growing up. As Nelson and Hana began the interview, Ali was eager to share her candid experience growing up with the infamously famed boxer Muhammad Ali or as she so affectionately referred to him simply as her “dad” or “father.”
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