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Subject: "Motown is legendary. Very legendary. But I'm a musician - heh heh"
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c71
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Mon Mar-09-15 11:25 AM
16. "Motown is legendary. Very legendary. But I'm a musician - heh heh"
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so, Berry is up there for me.
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Mon Mar-09-15 10:59 AM
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my daddy's still around.
SHAstayhighalways
Mar 09th 2015
1
Mine too
Atillah Moor
Mar 09th 2015
3
So is my dad, but this place has taken a toll on him.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 09th 2015
4
^
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
5
Mine too and he's always known what's up
napturalmystic
Nov 03rd 2022
64
John Lewis still kickin. He should get way more props than he does.
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
2
I feel like just last John Lewis was attacked and taunted by a white mob...
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 09th 2015
7
my dad is 70+ with no kidneys... he got heart!!!
legsdiamond
Mar 09th 2015
6
I could see Chris Rock growing into that role
John Forte
Mar 09th 2015
8
Ali.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
9
Yeah, America can love Ali now that he can't be as outspoken as he
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 09th 2015
10
right.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
24
Dick Gregory
Laz aka Black Native
Mar 09th 2015
11
Too eccentric. Plus white ppl under 65 probably don't know who he is.
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
27
Harry Belafonte
Niq96st
Mar 09th 2015
12
Julian Bond's alive as well.
Niq96st
Mar 09th 2015
15
yep!
lfresh
Mar 19th 2015
50
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Berry Gordy Jr.
c71
Mar 09th 2015
13
them too.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
14
cool. but the OP asks about universal reverence.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
17
if you're going by the OP, he mentioned Sharpton. In what
c71
Mar 09th 2015
21
read more closely.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
23
Sharpton is mentioned in the OP as someone who lost something
c71
Mar 09th 2015
25
k.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
28
I mention Jackson and Sharpton as long time activist who are NOT
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 09th 2015
30
You sandwiched them between Mandela and Cosby
c71
Mar 09th 2015
34
Mandela dead and Cos lost his reverence.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
36
Sharpton and Jackson shouldn't be between Mandela and Cos
c71
Mar 09th 2015
38
great.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
39
Are you really arguing about the sequencing of names?
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 09th 2015
41
George Clinton said he just got sober. The latest Funkadelic
c71
Mar 09th 2015
18
no.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
20
but...
lfresh
Mar 19th 2015
51
We naming names, but let's be honest, NONE of them cats on Cosby's
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
19
Sidney is, arguably, higher.
spades
Mar 09th 2015
22
you would think, since he won an Oscar.
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
26
Belafonte and Poitier are on that level for their civil rights work
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 09th 2015
29
yeah, I just read something about them giving SNCC $70K in cash
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
31
More so id argue. We're invested in Cosby because he impacted our gener...
BigReg
Mar 09th 2015
32
Desmond Tutu?
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
33
shockingly he is NOT dead.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
35
lol... and he's only 83. I woulda swore he was like 105.
placee_22
Mar 09th 2015
37
not well known enough these days.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
40
i spoke to him on the phone briefly one time when i was 13
dba_BAD
Mar 09th 2015
47
has there EVER been a 'old black man' as well liked* as bill cosby?
SHAstayhighalways
Mar 09th 2015
42
yes. Sidney Poitier.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
44
seen.
SHAstayhighalways
Mar 09th 2015
46
Stevie?
Government Name
Mar 09th 2015
43
probably.
SoWhat
Mar 09th 2015
45
Good one.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 09th 2015
48
hrm
lfresh
Mar 19th 2015
53
So why don't Jesse and Sharpton get elder statesman status?
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 19th 2015
49
can't trust em...
legsdiamond
Mar 19th 2015
54
Why? The White Media has been pilloring these guys for decades and now
Buddy_Gilapagos
Mar 19th 2015
55
Morgan Freeman in with a shout?
TheAlbionist
Mar 19th 2015
52
he like white women
Billy Ray Valentine
Mar 19th 2015
60
so did Fredrick Douglass
WarriorPoet415
Nov 03rd 2022
65
Morgan Freeman got some funny business with his step grand daughter
Buddy_Gilapagos
Nov 03rd 2022
71
For UK audiences, Sir Trevor McDonald.
TheAlbionist
Mar 19th 2015
56
Andrew Young 83- fmr Ambassador ,mayor, pastor,activist
DJ007
Mar 19th 2015
57
samuel l jackson?
SHAstayhighalways
Mar 19th 2015
58
Eric "I give no fucks " Holder
DJ007
Mar 19th 2015
59
Holder and Loretta Lynch ended up disappointing
Buddy_Gilapagos
Nov 04th 2022
73
John Witherspoon
Adwhizz
Mar 19th 2015
61
RIP to Pops
Adwhizz
Nov 03rd 2022
66
I was about to make this post before I realized I made it already.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Nov 03rd 2022
62
Denzel?
ThaTruth
Nov 03rd 2022
63
Chuck D is 62, is that "Old" enough?
Adwhizz
Nov 03rd 2022
67
>>>>
Johnny
Nov 03rd 2022
68
Yeah I definitely think Chuck D and Spike but it seems we just don't see
Buddy_Gilapagos
Nov 03rd 2022
70
uncle charlie?
mikediggz
Nov 03rd 2022
69
Felt this way when Congressman Elijah Cummings died.
Triptych
Nov 03rd 2022
72
Elijah Cummings was like the last one that no one dare come at.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Nov 07th 2022
74
I just want y'all to have the chance to get old. period.
Damali
Nov 10th 2022
75
Facts
Buddy_Gilapagos
Nov 10th 2022
76
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