Posted on 04/25/2002 12:50:43 PM PDT by Dead Dog
It seems to me that impact of Black's in American history and present has been completely downplayed by our media. And in fact, their legacy has been shanghied by such Race Baiting Poverty Pimps as Jesse Jackson his ilk.
So, I'm composing a list of influential Blacks who have made very significant contributions to the greatness of this country, or are now having a very positive impact. All of these people I feel should be studied in our classrooms and held out as examples for all races. Dead Dogs Black History:
Condi Rice (Ann Coulter with pigment). Thomas Sowell
Clarence Thomas
J.C. Watts
Alan Keyes
Michael Jordan (amazing skill, and hard work ethic to capitilize on it beyond imagination)
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Ken Hamblin (The Black Avenger)
James Golden (Bo Snerdly from Rush Limbaugh...I think he's better than Rush)
http://www.geocities.com/mhking1/others.html
Feel free to peruse the rest of the site as well (I'm a bit slow in updating of late - that should change soon).
Walter Williams
Niger Innis
You sure you spelled that right? :)
At the other end you have the likes of:
Orange Juice, I did'nt kill her, Simson
Jesse, give me the money, Jackson
Milton, I be the man who be in charge, Street
Al, I running for president, Sharpton.
And last but not all:
Rodney, can't we just all get along, King
Jesse Lee Patterson
I've known plenty of old black men I grew up around in Mississippi who worked hard all their lives and raised their kids up right. Now they're gone. They inspired me as a boy. My dad was a contractor so I always knew and worked with many true "old school" black men as a boy. They had grit..understated.
The "I'm a victim" mentality holds people down.
Everyone needs positive role models to inspire them to be the best that they can be.
One suggestion - find a new Web hosting service. Whoever you're using has the site plastered with ads for Salon.com and the New York Times!!! Yikes!!!!!!
That is a nice thing to say. She is a lucky woman.
St. Moses the Black was a former gang leader, murderer, and thief in ancient Africa. However, he became a model of transformation. His is one of the most inspiring stories among the African saints.
Moses, an escaped slave, was the leader of a group of 75 robbers. He was a large and powerful man, who with his gang terrorized the entire region. Moses was transformed after he and his group attacked a monastery, intending to rob it. He was met by the abbot, whose peaceful and warm manner overwhelmed him. He immediately felt remorse for all his past sins, sincerely repented, and begged to remain at the monastery.
A wonderful Christian role model for modern black youth trying to escape a life of crime.
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