Avante

[SpursforSix]

I don't see the need to know in the blacks I've encountered. Everything is pretty much shallow, they don't look to dig very deep.

They might know that Usain Bolt is fast but they can't talk the history of Jamaica sprinting, yes yes....they really don't care, which is my point. They can't talk Herb McKenley, Les Laing, George Rhoden. They just aren't interested. But.......a lack of interest has nothing to do with intelligence.

I had a grandfather who could cook better than any woman I've ever known, an ace mechanic, could grow anything, play the guitar, fix anything, he wouldn't have a clue who ens, Poe, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, London were.

You ever think that's a better way to live? What good is knowing what 1930 college WR had the fastest 400?
As old as you are, I'd think that'd you'd start evaluating the most rewarding ways to spend your time. Maybe ponder more about the deeper meanings of life.

[Avante]

You ever think that's a better way to live? What good is knowing what 1930 college WR had the fastest 400?
As old as you are, I'd think that'd you'd start evaluating the most rewarding ways to spend your time. Maybe ponder more about the deeper meanings of life.

That coming from a cat who posts threads about....TV shows/movies........ha~~~ now there is some deep .

I was always intriqued with speed. And at first it was looking like I was going to a great sprinter. Then I started to grow, simply out grew sprinting physically. But I never lost my love for the sport. And everything I'm into I will know all there is about it, I must know all I can. Be it music, football, literature, rasslin', Islam, the black experience in America. I was blessed with a supernatural memory, if the interest is there it's locked away forever.

My meaning of life is this.....do all ya can to make sure your family has everything they need, once that is taken care off, know all you can about the things that interest you. It makes no sense worrying about the things you have no control over so I don't.

[Avante]

The Souls Of Black Folk

W.E.B DuBois

Looks good, I have heard of this 1903 classic, now I own the book.

[Avante]

When you finally decide to learn them blues, ya start with this.

Crazy Blues Mamie Smith

Any of the 1924 recordings by Papa Charley Jackson, Daddy Stovepipe, Ed Andrews (one record)

Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Charley Patton, Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Blind Willie McTell.

Sure there are a few hundred others but none any more "Important" early on.

[Avante]

If Edelman hadn't been hurt we could see the Pats....

QB...white
RB...white
TE...white
Slot...white
Slot...white
WR...white

Hmmmmmmm?

[Avante]

I'm in this debate on a sprint forum.

After Usain Bolt, who is second in sprintdom history?

With all the experts here....help~~~

[clambake]

did you tell them about spursforsix epic run?

[Avante]

did you tell them about spursforsix epic run?

Yes I did, and it went like this.

Zoom.....why do you post on sites with stupid posters like that?
Strider....do they know who you are over there?
Zap.....he's just trolling ya bro.
Denny....dude, what are you doing at a place like that?
Monroe,,,,what did he say when you told him that was impossible?
Speedy....nobody can be that stupid.
Juan....have him come here and we'll set the dummy straight.
Xavier...did you explain to the guy how that could never happen?

[Avante]

I get this makes no sense...here.


Tyrese Cooper might be the greatest middle school sprinter ever. Look at what he was running the 200m in.

Middle School Boys' Leaderboard

Event	Mark	Athlete	Team
50 Meter Dash (38)	7.47	Giancarlo Margarejo	FL St. Cecelia Catholic Middle School
100 Meter Dash (2,348)	10.71w	Tyrese Cooper	FL Miami Garden Xpress Track Club
200 Meter Dash (2,015)	21.81w	Tyrese Cooper	FL Miami Garden Xpress Track Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrese_Cooper


I get we have some immature idiots posting here but to look totally stupid just to troll somebody.......really?

[Avante]

Cracks In The Floor


I heard the train comin'
rollin' down the track
it was the 2:19
bringin' my baby back

there I stood
the rain beginning to pour
as the train pulled up
and the porter opened the door

I see the passengers
all getting off
but where is my baby
did she get lost

now I weep n' moan
head hung low
staring down
at the cracks in the floor

[Avante]

True/False?

A 26 year old medical student at Duke is flipping stations on his tv, he comes across a track meet. Watching the sprinters run he thinks to himself..."I could beat those guys". This is a guy who never ran HS or college track, he had never ran at all. So........he starts training, he wants to be a National Champion sprinter. In less than a year he would win the USA Nationals in a better than WR time of 9.0, but it was windy so disallowed.

He would make the cover of SI.

True/False

George "Little Chocolate" Dixon is credited with having fought over 800 bouts in his 20 somethingyears boxing career. He was fighting two/three times in a day sometimes. Yep, he fought way back before all the regulations. Fist black world champion.

True/False

Ben Ellerbe was a plantation slave wrestler, he never lost and won his owner a huge amount of $$$$$$$$$$$$. He won his last match at 55, then was put out to stud.

[Avante]

The soundtracks to...Kiill Bill 1 and Kill Bill 2, the star the great Charlie Feathers.

[Avante]

I own a CD where it's all songs that the band REM recommend.

Dock Boggs...?

Dock Boggs is an old 1920's Appalachian hick who picked the bango and sang in an eerie, ah.....weirdness. He only had 10 songs then.....poof...Untl many years later when he was rediscoverd. But here it is his 1927.....Pretty Prolly......a classic.


Never would have thought REM and Dock Boggs (I do own those 10 songs)


You'd take Boggs...

Frank Hutchison
Justice
John Hammond
Emry Arthur....original...I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
Bayless Rose
Charlie Poole
Clarence Ashley....original...House of the Rising Sun
Asa Martin

.......for a nice hicksville mix.

[Avante]

she was tall
a little over 6-3
had big blue eyes
and a tattoo of a bumblebee

she had it all
from her head to her toes
so why she loved me
nobody knows

her daddy own oil wells
her mom did too
so what's this poor boy
suppose to do

there must be a God
there just has to be
because there sits an angel
right next to me

[Avante]

I go to Target to get some Dyequill*** for Judy, the line at the Pharmacy is long, so I go to one of the shorter check outs. Guy asks to see my ID.

While I do look younger than my age, noway in I'm passing for....20.

Avante....you can't be serious.
Guy....store policy.
Avante...where's the common sense?
Guy...ya mean you knowing I just work here and I have to do my job, that common sense?

I liked that a lot. Great comeback and totally shut me up.

***Yes, neither of us ever gets sick so I know nothing about medicines.

[Avante]

Watching the World Indoor Track and Field Championships and there are black athletes from Germany, Sweden, it just don't seem right.

[Blake]

Watching the World Indoor Track and Field Championships and there are black athletes from Germany, Sweden, it just don't seem right.

Well you're racist so there's that

[Avante]

I have it on my to read list, talking that book that Dennis Rodman wrote. I'm going to guess he was from a broken home, like most blacks are.

If blacks need something to protest, there it is.....why aren't black men accepting the responsibility of their actions? Stats prove what happens to kids with no father in the home.

[Avante]

Yep, Rodman grew up in a broken home, now how did I know this?

What is really going on with this? Why do we see so many blacks raised by just a mom, grandma? Are black men really this uncaring of their children, really?

70% of all black children born in the USA are born to unwed mothers. That's hard to believe.

Why don't black men accept their responsbilities as a father?

Right there is why we see the mess we do with black people. Their kids have no fathers, so we get the gangs and young punks who grow up to......bail on their family.

Avante....where ya headed son?
Mason (13)....just out, ya got a problem with that?
Avante.....WHAM~~~~~
Mason....(laying on floor)....ok ok, sorry.
Avante...son, don't you ever pull that smart mouth bulll again, got it? Now get your ass in bed.
Mason....ok ok.
Avante...Mason
Mason..,.huh?
Avante....I love ya son.
Mason...I know.

What does mom do when the son gets too big to handle?

What's funny (not really) is how once the son becomes a pro $$$$$$$$$$$$ athlete, now here comes tha father who had neglected him all those years.

[Avante]

Caste Football, check that site out, so ignorant it's ridiculous. The only reason blacks are better athletes is ....PEDS. Yep, that's what those rednecks there really think.

Let's say track was outlawed in 1970.

Jesse Owens
Eddie Tolan
Ralph Metcalfe
Eulace Pea
Ben Johnson
Harrison Dillard
George Rhoden
Herb McKenley
Bob Hayes
Henry Carr
John Carlos
Tommie Smith
Lee Evans
Stone Johnson
Andy Stanfield
Ronnie Ray Smith
Charlie Greene
Jimmy Hines
Mel Pender
Frank Budd
Ray Norton

There are 18 world record holders there, al black. All ran before 1971.


Footballers prior to 1971. Yep.black.

Jim Brown was on PEDS? Lenny Moore? John Henry Johnson? Timmy Brown? Bass? Don Perkins? Cookie Gilchrist? Paul Lowe? Abner Haynes? Clem Daneils? Bobby Mitc ?

Look at HS sprint records,yep...black.

How could anyone not get this? When it's totally obvious.

[Avante]

When the Aliens finally arrive and they want to listen to what we Americans have when it comes to music, if I'm in charge of this project.

The 40 must listens

Blind Willie Johnson...Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Robert Johnson....Crossroad Blues
Jimmy Rodgers...Waitin' On a Train
The Temptations...Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Merle Haggard...Mama Tried
Marvin Gaye...Hitch Hike
Blind Lemon Jefferson...Black Snake Moan
Clarence Ashley...House of the Rising Sun
Bessie Smith...St.Louis Blues
Elvis...Don't
Hank Williams...Lovesick Blues
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys....San Antonio Rose
The Carter Family...Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Jimi Hendrix...Red House
Frank Sinatra...I Did It My Way
Patsy Cline...Crazy
BB King...The Thrill is Gone
Ray Charles...Georgia
The Rigtheous Bros...Unchained Melody
The Eagles...Desperado
CCR....Tombstone Shadow
Otis Redding...These Arms of Mind
Billie Holiday....Strange Friuit.............will need somebody to explain this one
Bil Withers...Lean on Me
The Chambers Bros....Time
Prince..Cream
Townes Van Zandt...Poncho and Lefty
Bob Dylan...Fixin' To Die
Lightnin' Hopkins... o Central
Howlin; Wolf...Evil
Muddy Waters...I'm a Hoochie Coochir Man
Chuck Berry...Maybelline
Jerry Lee Lewis...Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
Carl Perkins..Blue Suede Shoes
Buddy Holly...Peggy Sue
Bonnie Raitt...I'm a Bartender
Memphis Minnie...Bumble Bee
John Lee Hooker...Crawling Kingsnake
Phil Phillips...Sea of Love
Rosie and the Originals...Angel Baby

[Avante]

Then after they finish listening to that and want more.....

Lucinda Williams
Marty Robbins
ZZ Top
Sonny Boy Wiliamson
Roy Acuff
The Stanley Bros
Gillian Welch
Allison Krauss
Al Green
Sam Cooke
Jackie Wilkson
Little Walter
Big Bil Broonzy
Ma Rainey
Emmett Miller
Dock Boggs
Charley Patton.....will freak them out
Memphis Jug Band
Little Richard
Dr.John
Miles Davis
Gene Vincent
Skeeter Davis
Lena Horne
Buddy Guy
Lead Belly
Louis Armstrong
Blind Willie McTell
Sonny Boy Williamson
Junior Wells
The Platters
Bill Monroe
Hazel ens
Country Joe and the Fish
The Doors
Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings
Percy Sledge
Low Rawls
Ernest Tubb

[Avante]

American Indian flute and chant, pretty cool listen.

Ya mix that in with some African tribal music, some Othar Turner, Sid Hemphill, some southern blacks on the chain gang, the movie sound tracks Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.....very cool. And some Washington Phillips.

I know....huh?

[Avante]

Love this.

[Avante]

Love talking AVANTE.

Hard to believe you midgets are so damn hard up to what....put Avante in his place?....ya have a fake contest.....hahahahaha~~~~~~

Little people, why is it is so damn hard to believe that a long time track, blues, footbal, rasslin', fan posts here? Why act ing stupid over it, why not get a pad and a pen and actually learn things instead of acting re ed over it? I'd embrace it get all I could from it, not fight it and get all freaky about it.

It;s so ing silly we actually have this.....

Poster....you rapist you, what ya did in Olongapo back then was terrible.

Then

Same Poster....you Google that ya never saw Jim Brown play.

Hahahahahahahaha~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ old enought be in the Nam war but not old enought to............hahahahahaha~~~~~~~~~~~

Midgets born in 1949, ok? Got into football/track/rasslin' in the late 50's, ok? Got into them blues in the early 70's., ok?

Stop acting ing re ed over this, alright?

There is nobody anywhere with my knowledge when it comes to football/track/rasslin'/blues as a combo, live with it.

Who can do this but Avante?

All Time Houston 100m

lane

1.Mario Burke
2.Stanley Floyd
3.Cameron Burrell
4.Carl Lewis
5.Leroy Burrell (yep, father)
6.Sam Jefferson
7.Eli Hall
8.Joe DeLoach
9.Kirk Baptiste