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The article provides the author's autobiographical reminiscences of his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, mainly focusing on stories of African American boxing champion Muhammad Ali's life in the city. Ali was the author's neighbor during his childhood. Emphasis is given to Ali's experiences with racism and segregation in Louisville, the cohesiveness of Louisville's African American community, and descriptions of murals painted by Ali's father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr.

Discusses why many African-Americans are uninterested and unwired when it comes to using computers. Economics and education as handicaps to computer ownership; Reasons rooted in African-American history, culture and psychology; African-Americans' thinking that cyberspace is predominantly a white, male domain; The book, `The African American Resource Guide to the Internet,' cowritten by Stafford Battle; Why young blacks are hardest to sell; More.