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Capitalist Pig?

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I'm sitting at home Saturday night watching HBO's 24/7- A boxing series which provides an in depth look at the training camps of fighters as they prepare for big upcoming fights on the network. The fighters being featured are Floyd "Money" Mayweather and his opponent, Mexican superstar Juan Manual Marquez. The cameras followed Mayweather as he visited a local shelter and handed out lunches to the homeless- a noble act indeed. However, what caught my attention was "money" Mayweather's Che Guevara T-shirt. Guevara, served as Fidel Castro's Ed McMahon during the Cuban revolution and has become somewhat of a mascot for the entertainment Liberal left in America. There is so much Irony here to point out. First, Mayweather- who according to Forbes Magazine- has earned over $70 million in purses throughout his career-wears a T-shirt which features a Marxist who is by definition anti capitalist. Mayweather in fact owes his lavish and flashy lifestyle t