Famous Encounters???

[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

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

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.
SC

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

[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.

[BlueReign]

Someone mentioned Donny Simpson. I don't know how many times I've met him over the years. When I was 16, I stood in a line for an hour in 90+ degree heat to get his autograph and a picture! He used to do these pool parties all over the city with WKYS. All I remember was those eyes. I used to love him!!

[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.