POLL: Who is Booker T?

[SuperCyrix]

hmmm...I wonder.....

 

[dawks]

WCW Champion..

 

[ZeroBurn]

washington ?

 

[DannyLove]

Booker T and the MGs?

danny~!

 

[SuperCyrix]

ZeroBurn..hehe a brain among us?

 

[MichaelD]

Oh man, I'm feeling old again. Second time tonight. Booker T could very well possibly be; Booker T, of Booker T and the MG's. A band from the 60's. They did a lot of "surf" music. One of the tunes that made them famous (damn me, I can't remember the title right now!) was originally recorded by another 60's group called "The Ventures". They were strictly instrumental...no vocals. Someone else older thsn 25 help me out here! Please, I'm drowning in a sea of healtier and smarter than me young dudes!

 

[SuperCyrix]

but if anyone were to ask me, I'd say
"WCW champion"

 

[777joee]

Zero & Danny got my thoughts.....

 

[dawks]

So I was right.. Hmm..

 

[nater]

booker t washington?

 

[SuperCyrix]

This makes a good Jaywalk question.

 

[Blayze]

WCW Champ
"fake" Rock?

uh..........

 

[beer]

The more intellectual answer was that he was an African American who, in teh 1870s, believed that African-Americans can only be part of society if they learned manufacturing trades. He was at odds with W.E.B DuBois, who believed that African Americans needed to learn the classics and sciences, as he was the first graduate from Harvard with a Ph.D. I believe he opened several vocational schools which improved the life of African Americans who went through it.

 

[ZeroBurn]

SuperCyrix - i did a project on him

it was a webpage assignment on his bibliography, i got an A on it

despite the fact i didn't bother to read the book... all the animated mouseOvers and cgi caught her attention more then content i suppose

 

[SuperCyrix]

ZeroBurn,
Yeah, he was a very interesting read. I completely missed him the first time through Jr High and High School. Sad the core courses in college were so tough I've never put much time into the lone history course. Much have change since our refocus on minorities brought sweeping changes into the textbooks. Was he even in the earlier textbooks? I was reading a US history book with a college kid and wow! It's like a brand new history. Booker T stood out. I was thinking,.yeah! WCW champion. Oh wait, there's more. What's this about black civil rights movement. Took the book home with me today. Wanted to see who else thought he was a wrestler.

 

[SuperCyrix]

Of course, Booker T and Angle are still 2 of my favorite wrestlers.

 

[ZeroBurn]

hehe i didn't even know he was a wrestler, just never watched it.

wow was that flamebait or what

 

[SuperCyrix]

flamebait, only people who have something against wrestling I suppose.
I recall all the negative remarks against wrestling posted on this forum. Wouldn't it be interesting if "The Rock" was reading some of it and showed up on somebody's doorstep.

 

[thereds]

some school in Tulsa.

 

[gmrickards]

WCW wrestler

 

[whitelight]

he's gonna kick wwf butt.

 

[gittyup]

Booker T is a character on the kid's show Barney...

 

[mk52]

nooo

its the guy from 21 jumpstreet

 

[OSUdrunk]

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Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was the dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Born a slave on a small farm in the Virginia backcountry, he moved with his family after emancipation to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. After a secondary education at Hampton Institute, he taught an upgraded school and experimented briefly with the study of law and the ministry, but a teaching position at Hampton decided his future career. In 1881 he founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on the Hampton model in the Black Belt of Alabama.