Role Models

[LTR_Seeker]

Post pics of your fav inspiring leaders from any decade who gave you hope but show common sense like no hitler or charles manson lol

[stonewallj]

These two of course...

[speedking59]

Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch

[marcelloNYC]

These two of course...

:lol:

[marcelloNYC]

Arnold! He shows that with hard work and perseverance all your dreams can come true.

http://blog.greens.org.nz/wp-content/young-arnold-schwarzenegger.jpg

[Tepres]

:arrow:

[jjhill]

Ok I had alot, but I cut it down to three.

[LTR_Seeker]

There one of my role models put life on line to help make the america we enjoy today

[Jim Brown]

These two of course...

but mostly K

[jjhill]

These two of course...

but mostly K

K Rock the hometown hero!

[Jim Brown]

These two of course...

but mostly K

K Rock the hometown hero!

Oh yeah and this guy Mark Ronson

[Alyssa87]

TOP 5


Madelyn Albright
Her rise to political power by honest means. Her real knowledge on international affairs and foreign culture. A true world citizen.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/Albright.jpg

Oprah Winfrey
Her rise from poverty to great wealth by honest means. Her power and influence over women everywhere. Her unparalled philanthropy.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/OPRAH-1.jpg

Maya Angelou
Her ability to observe the world and reflect on it so very beautifully through poetry, and speak to the souls of so many. Her eloquent words and almost regal refinement.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/MAYA.jpg

Iyanla VanZant
Her understanding of the human condition. Truly spiritually enlightened. Her books and inspirational speech's ability to incite and facilitate personal understanding and inner peace.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/speaker_iyanla_vanzant.jpg

Cornell West
(As much as i'd like my top 5 to be women)
His academic expertise on all of the social sciences. His fair and factual take on race in America. His awe-inspiring communication skills.
If there was such thing as an informative smackdown, this would be the man who would administer it best.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/CORNELL.jpg

[Alyssa87]

Now on a shallow note, this is my TOP 5 for my role models- Physically

:idea: i hope to LOOK like these people, and BE like the previous ones :idea:

Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas (from TLC)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/CHILLI.jpg

Stacey Dash
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/STACEY.jpg

Kim Kardashian
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/KK.jpg

Toni Braxton
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/TONI.jpg

Blu Cantrell
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/syykoet/BLU.jpg

[Alyssa87]

Great Topic LTR.

I had fun thinking about my choices. and organizing my thoughts and pictures : )

it was very therapudic.
& i hope will help keep me on track and even more focused on how i can be more like these people i look up to so much.

[LTR_Seeker]

i didnt think this topic make it to 2 pages

[jjhill]

i prob could of done two pages myself. great topic

[Alyssa87]

i prob could of done two pages myself. great topic
+1

[jjhill]

heyyyy we both picked Mr. West lol

[Alyssa87]

se we did.

he spoke at my highschool, and i've been following him since.

I secretly harbor dreams of attending Princeton one day and taking his Religion class. And graduating from his Afro-American studies program.

[LTR_Seeker]

I would post another role model i loved his ways & thoughts but i would get much hate my way lol

[peggygee]

Just a few for now

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/magi43/mysheros55-1.gif http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/magi43/malcolmx5x6.jpg

[Kabuki]

Tommie Smith and John Carlos.

They voiced their opinions during the 1968 Olympics without words. I wish people in the states would stand up and fight for real change. The Civil Rights movement in the 60's changed the world.

Karen Duffy.

90's MTV VJ. Duffy was leading a relatively carefree youth in the heyday of her modeling career, partying with movie star friends such as George Clooney, when in 1995 she was diagnosed with the relatively rare disease sarcoidosis. In her case, this affected her brain (neurosarcoidosis), leaving her partially paralyzed. She has so far battled it with a sense of humor, as is evident from her 2000 autobiography Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass. She has explained, "I tried to write a book not for sick people, but for people with a sick sense of humor ... [this] is not a typical book about illness."

After the diagnosis she continued to model for Revlon.

Her book is hilarious and she is a fighter.

Frida Kahlo. A Mexican painter living with polio, and a survivor of a brutal bus accident. She managed to create through the pain that her own body and life threw at her. How can you complain about life when she was actually impaled through her vagina?

On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was riding in a bus when the vehicle collided with a trolley car. She suffered serious injuries in the accident, including a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. An iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive ability.

Although she recovered from her injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she was plagued by relapses of extreme pain for the remainder of her life. The pain was intense and often left her confined to a hospital or bedridden for months at a time. She underwent as many as thirty-five operations as a result of the accident, mainly on her back, her right leg and her right foot.

I could go on and on...

[freak]

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[ozma]

http://sarahpalintruthsquad.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/colin-powell.jpg

[dc_guy_75]

For me, Jimmy Smits, Plaxico, and Quadaffi.

[alpha2117]

Tommie Smith and John Carlos.

They voiced their opinions during the 1968 Olympics without words. I wish people in the states would stand up and fight for real change. The Civil Rights movement in the 60's changed the world.



A lot of people dont realise the part Peter Norman played in Mexico 1968.

The gold and bronze medalists in the 200m at the 1968 Olympics were Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, respectively. On the medal podium, during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", Smith and Carlos famously joined in a Black Power salute.

What is less known is that Norman, a white Australian, donned a badge on the podium in support of their cause, the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). On the way out to the medal ceremony, Norman saw the badge being worn by Paul Hoffman, a white member of the US Rowing Team, and asked him if he could wear it.[citation needed] It was also Norman who suggested that Smith and Carlos share the black gloves used in their salute, after Carlos left his gloves in the Olympic Village.[5] This is the reason for Tommie Smith raising his right fist, while John Carlos raised his left. Asked about his support of Smith and Carlos' cause by the world's press, Norman said he opposed his country's government's White Australia policy.

Australia's Olympic authorities reprimanded him and the Australian media ostracised him. Despite Norman running qualifying times for both the 100m and 200m during 1971/72 the Australian Olympic track team did not send him, or any other sprinters, to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the first ever modern Olympics where no Australian sprinters participated.