Impressive people of black community

Hey together

I would like to know, which person of the black community impressed you very deeply, and why...
(Except president Obama- should he be your choice).

For me it is Moussa Dadis Camara, the new president of Guinée. I never met such a brave man before. He is really interested in changing life for people in Guinée and who ever was in an african country, knows, how difficult this is.. For me, absolutly TOP Man!!!!

 

Paul Robeson who was an athlete, actor, singer, civil rights activist, attorney and other things I cannot begin to catalog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson

 

Clarence Thomas--U.S. supreme court associate justice, writer and public speaker.........my kind of example to blacks who tend to lean conservative, my kind of dedicated husband and family man and my kind of taste in women with his lovely wife of 16 years Virginia.

 

yahoo had an article about him meeting some HS footballers on a plane..

he ended up speaking at their graduation, because he was so impressed with the way they treated him, even tho they did not realize who he was

They asked him to speak (no one thought he'd accept it, as big time as he is), and being humble, he said yes.

 

Thomas Sowell, the brilliant economist, professor and intellectual thinker. Check out this man's writings and the books he has written.

http://www.tsowell.com/

 

I read that too!... I played ball, You played ball..and Clarence definately played ball !....a fraternity of old ballers !

 

Blacktiger....Great,Great, Selection...he was my second choice ! Liberal blacks don't have any use him or Clarence Thomas because they both preach personal accountability and the folks in the hood want to stay on the public dole

 

I miss football

I never played football prior to HS, and wasn't that damn athletic to be honest (my 40 was over 5 seconds, at 6'0, 185lb WR, and I don't think I benched over a buck), so going out for football was more of a test (probably a joke to some people who knew me as an egghead), than something that I just wanted to do because I was that good. But, nonetheless, I showed up to everything the coaches had concerning football. I practiced with the coaches and other players in the spring, as well as lifted with them to get my weight up. I ran with them too. Then tryouts came, and I was so nervous because I wasn't the biggest guy, or the fastest guy.

I showed them how big my heart was tho, and that I wouldn't quit on them, even at the point of exhaustion, and the rest was history. Guys that had more talk and were more athletic (guys who benched more and ran faster), got passed up over me.

I was really proud of myself. One of those moments, where you really believe that you can 'do anything you put your mind to.'



That was one of the lasting imprints that playing ball had on me.

 

Jean-Robert Cadet, of Cincinnati, OH. A former haitian restavec (child slave) who founded an organization that provides funding for education and general assitance to those children who are in the same situation as he was as a child. He is just wonderful

 

I badly miss prep football too......boy those were the days. I ran tailback out of a wishbone and full house back field it was a bruising experience but the pep rallies and pomp-pomps and cheerleaders made it worth while. I ran a 5.2 in the 40 and lettered to 3 small schools.....I miss the camaraderie with my teammates riding on the ball bus to other high schools and talking smack.

 

As a business owner, I have always been inspired by Mr. Cuffee


Paul Cuffee (January 17, 1759—September 9, 1817) was an African-American businessman, patriot, and abolitionist. Cuffee built a lucrative shipping empire, even building his first three ships. He also built the first school of Westport, Massachusetts, which was racially integrated. A devout Christian, Cuffee often preached and spoke at the Sunday services at the bi-racial Society of Friends meeting house in Westport, even fronting most of the money to build a new meeting house in 1813. In Africa, Cuffee helped to establish The Friendly Society of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to support the former slave colony.

 

Nelson Mandela
Dr. King
Ben carson
Hank Aron
Malcom X
The express
Paul Robeson
Jesse Owens
Ali
Rosa Parks
Frederick Douglass
so many,

 

that man amazes me...he's a real inspiration to anybody, regardless of color..

he went from a kid who had trouble in school, to one of the most truly GIFTED MDs in contemporary time.

 

Nelson Mandella I think is one of the most God beautiful people on the planet.

Desmond Tutu, read his book on forgiveness and was very impressed.

Muhammad Ali, citizen of the world.

El-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz who was taken too soon.

Amina Wadud for teaching me so much.

Nikki Giovanni for her talent, voice.

And all the artists who speckle my playlists on my ipod...