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As for Gumble, he needs to revaluate his own self. I really do not think that he can say too much about the black community given that has been rolling with the "others" for a second.
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No disrespect meant Frat, but I've always found this point of view extremely interesting, especially when you consider that some of our finest scholars, most beloved entertainers, and other celebrities have in the past or are currently married to non-black people. Frederick Douglass' second wife was white. Alice Walker's first husband was a jewish man. Henry Louis Gates (world renowned scholar and head of Harvard's African & African American Studies program) is married to a white woman. Charles Barkley's wife is white. Kobe Bryant's wife is Latina. Even members of the Black Panther Party "talked black but slept white", but it didn't diminish their message at all.
Does it change your mind to know that Bryant Gumbel's yearly celebrity golf tournament is a fund-raiser for the United Negro College Fund, and to date has raised more than
seven million dollars?
Maybe I have a vested interest in this because I'm an Af-Am scholar in training and I'm currently married to a non-black man, but to say that because someone married a person of another race that they've completely severed their ties to the African American community is specious at best.
[This message has been edited by SoTrue1920 (edited June 13, 2001).]