In honor of Black History Month, I was wondering if anyone had any black heroes or stories that they might like to share?

Mine would probably be Alice Walker, whose work in the writing world and violence against women cause has inspired me on multiple levels.

my black hero would have to be tyra banks
she is constantly striving to remove racism from our lives today she exposes truths and destroys stereotypes ex. blacks are dumb she points out that some of the most talented people are black and that its not what you look like but who you are on the inside

...ok...that wasn't weird at all.

In answer to the question I think that both Malcom X & Martin Luther King gave very good speeches on equality. They are both worthy of being someones heros.

Sorry about the double post, but I figured I should point out that I don't have any heroes, just to keep things on topic.

Alas, my modus operandi has been revealed...

Yes, I see that now. You came on this board to argue only for the sake of arguement not to answer the original question. How very sly and classy of you.

I couldn't care less what MLK did regarding his marriage. He's not my hero.

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Originally posted by clpo13:
Alan Keyes threw his daughter out of the house because she was a lesbian. Hardly someone I'd call a hero.

Heh, gives new meaning to "family values", doesn't it?

MLK Jr. was an adulterer and couldn't respect that part of the covenant of marriage.

Everyone makes mistakes, even "heros". This doesn't dimish thier goodness. It simply makes them real.

Alan Keyes threw his daughter out of the house because she was a lesbian. Hardly someone I'd call a hero.

Heh, gives new meaning to "family values", doesn't it?

FML, don't you realize that it is more important that he is black. It doesn't really matter what he did. Any black guy who does something is a hero.

Jeez you racist.

I'll say Martin Luther King. I will then say that to denote him as a black hero, rather than a hero, denigrates his legacy.

Alan Keyes.

Black history is really interesting. Are there any black people in history I admire? Sure, plenty. The one I admire the most was a man called Bilal Bin Rabah (sometimes Bilal Ibn Rabah), who was a slave in pre-Islamic Arabia. He was tortured in the middle of the desert, under the hot summer sun, with a boulder pinning him down as he was continuously whipped for converting to Islam once it started. Muslims were too few to help him then and he had to stand the torture until another man bought him and set him free.

I think it's amazing that he had the courage to stand all that for his beliefs, and then found it in his heart to forgive the people who'd done that to him.