Best of the Best

"Joe Louis was the first black hero of white Americans, as well as black Americans. The dignity and sportsmanship with which he conducted himself had much to do with changing the image of black people in general, and eventually opening many doors for them.

In those days, you didn't have to act like a lout to try to show that you were black. Acting like a gentleman was something admired by blacks and whites alike.

Louis engaged in none of the cheap, show-off antics that have become all too common among boxers of a later era. He came to the ring to do a job, and he did it professionally, skillfully and with devastating results. He still holds the record for the most one-round knockouts in heavyweight championship fights."

- written by Dr. Thomas Sowell, another of those door openers, in his case to better economic prospects for everyone



I wish Whoopie Goldberg would get a grip on herself and stop ruining her own good professional standing by ranting over every imagined slight to whatever "demographics" she associates with herself. Maybe it's just "The View" that has tainted her good nature. If so, hopefully she will look around and see that she's dealing herself out of her own promise.



Meanwhile, I wonder if Whoopie is suffering, like so many other self-afflicted types I've known, from a lack of sufficient mothering. It appears to me that everyone I know who has fallen into his own reflection in the pond is still begging his mother (or a reasonable facsimile) to save him.



Pardon the politically incorrect pronoun reference here, but I'm tired of trying to be so . . . . inclusive about everything. I once tried to invent a non-gender-specific pronoun to make my writing life easier, but all I could come up with is "heshit" which is entirely too incivil for my tastes. Besides, I take no affront at being referred to as a member of mankind. Oh, well, each to his own - at least that's what I will keep thinking until they deliver the knockout punch to my individuality, and even then, I doubt the music will come to an entire halt.