Jackie Robinson, Bob Gibson, some folks I knew in the US Army, many more.

The Hodge twins

Joe Morgan, Justice Clarence Thomas.

Gary Coleman and whoever the kid was who played Buckwheat. Oh, and 1984 naked Vanessa Williams.

This list, is going to challenge the list of French war heros !

Mike Tyson, Candace Owens, Shupac

My neighbor. Has some medical issues, Veteran, has a stay at home wife and a special needs daughter, goes to work every day. regular guy doing what regular folks do. Didn't know him but his father was a preacher/deacon or some such in a local church, Vet, regular fellow too from what folks around here say.

Willee O'Ree. First black player in the NHL, works with kids (of all colors) since his retirement, ambassador for the sport for years.

Couple of guys I worked with over the years. One that worked on the tugs which was pretty rough for a black fella.

The Little Rock Nine.

Charlie Pride, Candace Owens, Burgess Owens

Sgt Reginald Veasy, Spec 4 Stan Davis, Spec 4 Anthony Brown, I served with these fellows, and I’m proud to count them among my friends.
Funny this pops up. Just last night I was talking to Wifey about some of these guys. I gotta wonder what they think of this current stuff.
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Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Thomas Sowell and Candace Owens to name a few.

No different from anybody else who lives a decent life. Might give a bit of extra credit to blacks who stand up against peer pressure to adopt the attitudes and behavior of entitled victimhood, blaming racism for everything. Historically, the Tuskeegee Airmen and 54th Massachussets come to mind, and several others. The black female mathematicians in the NASA space program in the 60s. The movie Hidden Figures was inspiring.

Paul

Candace Owens, Dr Ben Carson, Justice Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, George Washington Carver

............... Same here....... Along with Walter E. Williams

Most any of them with a job and keeps their yard mowed.

Ted on my bridge building crew. He's 60+, works his ass off all day in this heat, and is as a respectful man as I've ever met. His respect and decency is returned many times be me.

Deflave, Beaver10.............

B. A. Baracus

plenty that i have met personally and would not mind having as friends

Almost lifelong friend, met 50 years ago when we were in the Navy, have been friends ever since. He drove 1000 miles to attend our wedding; worked hard all his life, never compromised his ideals, raised 5 daughter, put them all through college and they are all doing very well for themselves; another friend's father, born dirt-poor, worked hard all his life, ended up with a big farm and a controlling interest in a large farm-equipent dealership, raised a bunch of kids who have done well, two guys I work with right now, military veterans, both do more than their share at work and have helped me out considerably since I came aboard, have raised hard-working, polite kids; didn't know any growing up, there weren't any in rural, northern NY at that time..

Little Nas X

I pity the fool!

Bill Cosby.

That guy got alotta puzzy!

Good start, add to that Herschel Walker, Larry Elder, Dr. Walter Williams, Chuck Sherill retired Army, Shelby Steele, Leo Terrell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=1s2Ishme9P0&feature=emb_logo

LOL!

Marvin Cook, ex Marine and boxing trainer I use to work with him. Look him up on you tube. He may look like a hood but he is conservative. A true bad ass.

Gen. Russel Honore'

Any who has a job and actually raises their children.

Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Sheriff David Clarke, Robert Woodson, The Hodge Twins, Larry Elder, Ben Carson, Herman Cain and several men and women that I worked with for 20 years.

My son's wrestling coach. Guy is a hard worker. Gives a tons to kids. Always willing to help whenever asked. He is pretty dang liberal, but that is his prerogative.

Another family from my son's wrestling club is a mixed race couple. Guy is black and a great guy. Beast of a fellow that played football in college. His brother played some pro ball. Works at the detention center here. Stand up smart guy raising good kids.

In the public eye, Thomas Sowell comes to mind.

Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima they taken more sh*t than anyone ought to ever have to. Mb

Little Black Sambo; that boy could make butter out of a tiger. Need butter for the Aunt Jemima pancakes.
Syrup.....is Mrs. Butterworth black or white?
Uncle Remus was one I remember from my youth in the 50’s, had a record of him spinning tales.

Did Donald Duck have a black duck friend?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Bigeard

A lot!

Wilt Chamberlain claimed 20,000. I wonder how many Cosby did.

I don't don't know about the man, that actor that played on Walker Texas Ranger.

Spencer Williams, Dennis L. Barnett, M.D., Richard Kimani, M.D.

There’s more.




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Chris Rock

Dave Chapelle

That little short stand up comic fugk






Bob

Lil Wayne

Earl Campbell running back, Ozzy Smith shortstop.

colonel allen west

Dave Chappelle and Vanilla Ice

Good call.

Dr. Thomas Sowell...

Justice Clarence Thomas.

To name a couple.

DF

The actor Sidney Port??

I have listened to Herschel Walker a little lately and that guy makes a lot of sense. But like someone else said I admire all that work hard to raise a family and bring their children up to be good productive citizens.

Willie Mays, never met him tho.

Definitely Ambassador Alan Keyes.
I had the privilege of having a conversation at dinner years ago. Very humble man. Very intelligent and morally virtuous. Pro God. Pro life. Pro 2A. Historian of early USA.

Ronald Regan appointed him as the United Nations Embassador, which was one of THE highest appointments a president makes of his whole cabinet.

Funny thing is that both of us hated the UN!
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He's still kicking butt in the information war.
Has his own talk show. Here it is
https://iamtv.us

About 20 years ago I was working on US 183 in North Austin and Earl Campbell stopped to asked me directions.

Detective Rico Tubbs, M-D PD

OJ Simpson is good peeps




Bob

The father of two boys that I taught. Nobody here would know him.
We went to church together.
He was a very Godly Christian and very good Dad to those boys who turned out great.
He let me know if I was printing under my light, miami vice, summer cover jacket. We were ushers and an usher needs to be discreet.

Isn't that the same black rapper who was probably inspired by that black gal who was the first rapper on the radio........what was her name?
Oh yeah, Blondie. Lol! :'(🤔. 😄

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=149jGeIlx3I

Black jesus

Prince.

Before "the artist formerly known as" bullshit.
Purple Rain, raspberry beret prince.

Agreed. Great man.

Basketball great Larry Bird

Candace Owens, Thomas Sowell and Bricktop

...and John Holmes

Justice Thomas, Candace Owens, Dr. Ben Carson
Because of where they came from, where the got to
Candace Owens is awesome

Wasn’t that Iced Tea ?


Bob

Little Black Sambo was an Indian!

Reverend Ike.

I pity the fool that dont respect Sgt Baracus!!!!! Even if he aint gettin on no plane!

Rhutch is right. It's an inside joke from,......1980+- about Vanilla Ice.

Blonde is still played in stores. You'd recognize the voice. I think she was the first rapper on the radio. A white blonde girl from the late 70s.

Here's an old jim carey spoof making fun of theother white rapper.

Really can't think of any........

Chet Randall, the Police Chief I worked for in the 1980's. Later became Deputy Mayor. Was an Army veteran. Did a lot of work for the senior citizens in our little town. Sadly passed in 2012. Never thought of him as a black man, but as a good man.

We need more inner city school guidance counselors like Mr. T

....

I played soccer in college with Mike Iteogu. An African from Nigeria. Mike was a great soccer player I really enjoyed being on the team with him.
After college, Mike got a Phd in Pharmacy, and he wound up owning several drug stores in Macon Ga.

I admire Mike Iteogu.

Justice Thomas, Walter William's Diamond and Silk, Candace Owen's, Thomas Sowell.

I am a fan of Terry Crews.

One I saw on here the other day calling for a black ethnostate.

Also one I met on a job who could juggle a half dozen framing hammers.

I don't know his name,...but it's that boo that burned down the Portland, Oregon Starbucks.

,...overpriced commie coffee any damn way.

Clayton Bigsby

Charles Woodson, Bill Russell, Ben Carson, Condeliza Rice

Bryant Brandon. Nobody here ever heard of him, but he was a local colored fellow who used to help me some on the farm. Funny, carefree, hard working, and very religious. If all people, of any color, had been like him, this would be a trouble free world.

I registered as a Republican (was an Independant) so I could vote for Alan Keyes in the Presidential Primary.

Harvey Martin

Thomas Sowell

I never give it any thought. Good folks and bad folks.

Yes, Daffy. Donald was a Mud Duck.......

I met an 80 year old college music teacher today. She needed a County telephone number. I looked it up for her. We got to talk for a few minutes before I had to help the next person. She started out teaching in Houston Texas before moving to Iowa. Very sweet lady. Our conversation ended to soon.

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Too many to name without risking missing a few. But here goes. Mr Henry, a carpenter. Jessy and his Son Michael, both farm hands and vets. Calvin, my former boss and friend. A half dozen guys that I worked with. Big George, a retired farm hand. Tracy, a local Game and Fish Officer. I'm sure I'm missing a few.

If you asked me when I was 4, I would've said Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit.

Not allowed to show you any more because they took the good cartoons down for violating YouTuber'$
terms of "morality.". Must've shown a GOOD stereotype instead of a gangster I guess. 😐

[video:youtube]https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKqWQwSrwbcs7PjOwlaTXUAtbst0TQt8_[/video]

Does Navin R. Johnson count?

He was the white adopted son of black Sharecroppers, who grew to adulthood naïvely unaware of his obvious adoption. He stands out in his family not just because of his skin color but because of his utter lack of rhythm when his adopted family plays blues music.

These are my top 3

1) Sylvester Croom , he’s behind only Ken Langone overall. I love Sly
2) Bo Brown, the best boss I ever had. I stood by his side proudly as the KKK marched in front of our store.

From a distance, meaning from what I have seen

3) Shane Battier

Color never has meant much to me for a long time. But a true blue gum can get under my skin quick, they hate me for no reason other than my skin color.
If you’re from the South, they stand out pretty quickly as they want you to know exactly how they feel. They are the minority these days, as are the White racist. Only my opinion.

When I was a kid growing OJ was someone I looked up to....That turned out well...LOL...So all my Heros are now white.......

That was due to a copyright dispute.

This is a very good list.

Good for you!
If we vote, it should be our conscience and for the candidate like you have, IMHO. He's one of the few people who aren't an insider or controllable like just about all others.
Did you know about "IAmtv.us"?

Dong Fever!

😂😎

Mike Tyson, Candace Owens, Cassius clay

Listening to someone the other night, and they made the point that Cosby was a sicko. He could get all the puzzy he wanted, but preferred someone who was basically knocked out and paralyzed, he was into necrophilia. I think they may be right. For who he was he was a good looking black man with a LOT of money. He didn't have to pay for it, and he didn't have to knock women out to get it. They had to be throwing themselves on him.

SSG Earl Dunn.
Formerly 1/12th IN
84- 86


Think thats about it....

Wabigoon: I AM A "BLACK FOLK"!
I am expressing this fact here in anticipation of the $150,000,000.00 (one hundred and fifty million dollar!) reparations due to be paid to each and every "black folk" in America once sleepy joe "hands" pedo-man scratch and sniff biden becomes President!
GO BIDEN
MAKE ME RICH BRUTHA!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Redd Foxx

I'm color blind. I don't like most people no matter their color.

Hehe

Speaks well of a lot of the colored folks that I knew and was around when I was a kid...
what people would now call the "racist" south...

we seemed to get along a lot better in those days...

people showed respect, they got respect in return..

sorta my attitude to this day.. I tend to react to others tend to mirror as they act toward me..

regardless of skin color, religion or anything else...

Loved Redd Foxx.. especially in Harlem Nights...

use to have a record or two of his comedy skits...

"What is the definition of Indecent?" "Well if its in deep and its in good, then its In Decent".....

had a batch of Bill Cosby comedy records in the 60s also as a kid...

those were pretty darn funny also...

Sanford and his son





Bob

That version of Jeff Healey's hit is on an every day rotation on my playlist. Only guitar that's on par with Hendrix.

Colonel Sanders?

SSG Walter Perry, my third and best platoon sergeant.

The RZA, the GZA, the ghostface killah.....
The Wu Tang Clan!

Too numerous to list in fear of leaving someone out. There many knowns and unknowns that I admire and some whom I've had the privilege of being friends with. Their "color" is irrelevant. Their honor is everything.






I'd follow him to hell and back.






I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody the same.

The RZA, the GZA, the ghostface killah.....
The Wu Tang Clan!

Good one.

Grady was also hilarious.

😎

I named a barn cat ghost face killa. All tabbized except her face was white. LOL

And I named my chocolate lab Jules Winnfkeld.

Any hardworking patriot, educated, or not, who calls bs on BLM and the hypocrisy of his brethren of the same skin color who blame everything, but themselves, for being unsuccessful in life.

😎

IMHO, I can think of no better modern actor than Denzel Washington. He's got class, yet is very humble.

The Book of Eli.....he added the Bible theme to it if he was going to star in it. Best apocalyptic movie of all time.

The Equalizer.....played a thoroughly moral hero who was more or less an average Joe, but with courage and a sense of compassion for the afflicted.

The Equalizer 2.....same theme with new stories. Rescued a fatherless black teen from the influence of the gangsta crowd. Kicked butt only in self defense and to rescue the innocent. I can't think of a better actor to take the roll of the best 1980s tv series made into 2 of the best movies I've ever seen.


Here's a commencement speech.

well.there are many black people who i admire.the key word is black.so of the 13% of the race i would say about 4% would be a estimate.the rest well i dont refer to them as black.

There was a big ol black chick in high school. Her butt crack peered out of her pants some days just walking down the hall. She was bound to be admired by some.

Reggie Jackson (no relation to Jesse)

There was a huge black girl in my senior year class that nobody knew was pregnant until she was gone for a 2 weeks. She came back showing pictures of her baby.

She was still fat.

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White Power!

Navin R. Johnson

Koko B. Ware

Dr Ben Carson and General Colin Powell

And I know some of you will give me sheit for bringing up Powell because of his stand on Trump but hes accomplished a lot.

LOL

Ye

Satchmo

Took the credit that belonged to Stormin Norman.. Affirmative Action carried him a long way.

No disrespect but little admiration.

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Booker T. Washington.

George Johnson - none of you would know him I imagine. I knew him working at General Motors in the early 70's. "You can afford no hot rod so long as you HAVE to drive it to work every day." That guy could sure build a '40 Ford, I'll tell ya.

Earl Campbell
Cassius Clay
Mike Tyson

Prince performs one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time in that tribute.

I was going to vote for Sweet Baby Ray but found out he's a white boy. I'll go with Ray Charles.

Well, that's not a "riff" in any true sense - it is a memorized solo - and in my estimation he was a showy fellow who played some flashy wailing guitar at times, but have heard many, many, many better solo players.

I certainly admire many of those named here by others, most of whom have been prominent in our society and lives, and some of whom simply have been well-known by one of us.

In my case, it is impossible to name all that I admire - they have streamed through my life as buddies when little kids, fellow students from 1st grade through graduate schools, athletic team mates, co-workers, colleagues in teaching and leadership, fellow musicians, and many not known personally but who have lived to high standards and created examples of excellent human lives.

George Herbert Walker-Rodman Carver, the guy that invented the peanut.

I had few handful of those tonight, I realize that preparations A-G failed but we sho glad he finally he kept at it, maybe not the anaphylactic freckle kids....choke artists.....

but still....

That guy King keeps sending me a picture of.........He's impressive!

Lt. Col. Allen West.
Justice Thomas.
Filomon, native African tracker.

The 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces

Funny y'all bring up Bill Cosby. I used to admire him. He was the first black tv star, he played a secret agent on ISpy back in the sixties. He was a good actor and was good in the role.
He also did great comedy records. He did a comedy sketch where the American Revolution was a football game. The American general and the British general did the coin toss at midfield. British general lost.

"Americans, you can hide in the woods and wear buckskin for camoflage. British, you have to stand in a row and wear red coats."

He was a comic genius and really smart. I remember reading Playboy magazine in the late sixties, there would be Bill Cosby at the Playboy Mansion, two or three stacked blondes hanging on his arm. He was getting more ass than Sinatra, meanwhile, his wife was back at home in Philadelphia.

Back in the sixties it was unusual to see interracial sex. I was in Georgia and a black guy dating a white girl wanted to keep it real secret or something real bad could happen. So Cosby was really out there, banging all that stacked white ass, of course he was in California or New York, not Georgia.

I was shocked to find out that he was the master of the date rape drug. Freaky. I don't think it was necrophilia, I think it was a power trip. As rich and famous as Cosby was, still an occasional girl would say "No." Couldn't say "No" if she was unconscious.

And almost all the gals who accused him, and I have seen at least fifty, out of fifty about 47 are white.

You guys have named off some truly great Americans, but if you use the yardstick of self made men starting with nothing...how can you not recognize Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (although Al is a Cherokee, not an African). I mean really, they have taken a total line of bullschidt, and parlayed it into real money. Jesse Jackson's extortion racket of American business is a classic in entrepreneurship, that eclipses such greats as Ponzi, Madoff and Jim and Tammy Fay Baker and Jimmy Hoffa.

Sounds bad, but I try not to think of black people.

I believe it was renegade who invented the phrase "avoid the groid."

Good practice to follow.

Charlie Pride!

Amos and Andy, Pam Grier in the 70's. George Foreman the original. Dr. Ben Carson.

When I was 17, I got a job pouring concrete for a 40 year old black man named Slim. Slim had a white wife. It was just the two of us doing all of the flat work in a subdivision. Basement floors, garage floors, front stoops, and patios. We'd prep 2 or 3 lots for a couple of days and then pour and finish them. On the days that we poured, his wife Susan would come in the afternoons and run a troweling machine. It was huge to have her help so we had 3 machines running, especially when it was hot. This guy taught me how to work hard and the two of them treated me like a son. Slim was the hardest working black man I ever met in my life.

Another guy is my cleaning guy. I hired Big Mike 18 years ago to clean my office. He owns a cleaning company with about 10 employees and they clean offices. He personally cleans my place. He put his kids through college and they're all respectful kids with well paying jobs. I've met his wife and sons a few times when they were helping Dad out to get the jobs done. I never knew, or cared, what his politics were until 2004. One day he backs his van up to the front door to clean, and he's got Bush / Chaney bumper stickers all over the back of his van. That's when I found out he's a Conservative Republican. He's a good guy.

C Thomas, T. Sewell

Out off 20 or so million blacks there has been 100 or so name here, all good people. It looks like it is easier to ask "Do you like cottonmouth water moccasin or rattlesnakes?" Perty sure there have been a few good ones but not many.

Arthur Ashe Sr.

Taught me much about hunting and fishing and adventure when I was in my early teens.

Anyone that's a Republican

Well when I was a kid it was Dr J, Curly and Joe Morgan

My aunt lived by Walter Payton and said he was a great guy.

Met Meadowlark Lemon at an Angel Tree event. Good Christian man. I was like a little school kid when I got an autograph.

Haven't seen Morgan Freeman mentioned, altho Danzel was. Two of Hollywood's best.

The first black person I ever talked to was when I was 21 yrs old in the Air Force. All of the black NCO's were good guys, and were always fair to us white guys. But at the same time if one of the black guys under them screwed up, they jumped right dead in their schit! I also had some good friends that were black, but they were looked down on by their black co-workers. I think the blacks turned into the ones that we read about now. I think the 70's was the turning point.
I did think Bill Cosby was kind of a black hero until I found out otherwise.
I had a black nurse practitioner at the VA (foreign accent) the other day and he went over my tests better than I had ever had done before.

I don't know any blacks personally and I hardly ever see one.

I'm okay with that

I had a lot of black guys that were good friends when I was in the service in the 80's. There were some dickheads (just like whites) but most were good dudes.

I don't live near or deal with many blacks but when I do encounter them they get the same respect anyone else would get and deserve from me. I don't spend much time in any bigger city though, and that's on purpose.

None.