Famous Encounters???

[SummerChild]

Tony, how many times can I tell you that you're crazy. He probably has met so many people since I left his class that he wouldn't even remember me if I saw him today. Who knows.

It's not false modesty. I honestly didn't even think of him when I was thinking of celebrities. I guess I just think of him based on the way that I *knew* him - as my teacher. He was and is an honest and down to earth man whom the students loved. Even when I was in his class, there was a little bit of a disconnect for me between him and his job in Springfield as IL senator. Even then, I never thought of him as a senator. We just called him "professor." So you know that I can't hardly believe that he's now the dem. nominee for President...that's way more than state senator ...and I had not even taken that in. Don't get me wrong. I knew that he was one to contend with in Springfield but he never interjected that into teaching. We never heard about the bills that he was sponsoring or what he did when he left the campus. He never used the lawschool classroom as a pulpit for his political theories or work. Now that i think of it, he honestly never mentioned his "other position" as IL state senator. It was all about what he was there to do - teach us about equal protection (brown v. board, gender discrim, voting rights, the old concepts of separate but equal). Actually, now that i think of it, I think that that's kind of big of him b/c he honestly never talked about the great work that he was doing in Springfield. he was just prof. obama. so to that end, i never internalized the other stuff. i was trying to get a good grade.... and yes, his final was hard...and i did NOT appreciate it.

SC

Originally Posted by TonyB06

E-nuff with the false modesty. We know you are in dude's Fave5 Go 'head and floss, girl.

[cutielocks08]

WOW!!! I would have loved to have had Obama for my constitutional law prof, although I did have a great one in Professor Cheryl Harris. She's a sister, a critical race theorist (and possibly much more "radical" than Obama) and EVERYONE wanted to take her con law class.

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

Adding to my earlier post,

Wow, I guess that this is telling that I don't think of him as a celebrity b/c I forgot to add:

Barack Obama - my constitutional law professor when I was in lawschool. Nice, genuine, down-to-earth man.

Wow, that's crazy. He's just Professor Obama to me. It never occurred to me to list him as a celebrity ... but, alas, I guess he is now.

SC

Had he been my professor, I doubt any learning would have occured in there. I would have been staring at him all class period!

[AKA2D '91]

I met Tasha Smith at Essence last weekend. She was down to earth. She was all over the place.

[Senusret I]

^^^ That's CRAZAY!!!!!

[SummerChild]

Huh? Me? (or another post)

Originally Posted by Senusret I

^^^ That's CRAZAY!!!!!

[NinjaPoodle]

off the top of my head in no particular order:

Tracy and Melissa Gold
Tommy Davidson (nice guy)
Dwyane from Tony ToniTone
Democratic candidate Barack Obama
Maxine Waters (her sister is SGRho, she's a Delta)
Mayor Gavin Newsom (CUTE!! and tall too)
former Mayor Diane Feinstein
former Mayor Willie Brown (Alpha)
former Mayor Joseph Alioto
District attorney Kamala Harris (Howard AKA)
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
other local politicians

there are more but I can't remember. I'm having a senior moment

[pinkies up]

I went to L.A. a couple of weeks ago and saw Queen "Latisha" as my Great-Aunt called her, in a Fat Burger.

We stayed at the Sheraton Universal the week of the BET Awards, so all kinds of celebs were there. I was too busy making sure my children were in arms reach of me, but I did get a glimpse of Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe (sans Boris-I was trying to locate him though), B.B. King, Big Tigga (is he still relevant?) Jabbawokeez (the dance crew), and I got a chance to attend the BET Awards show. That was really a good time.