Non white, non male role models

OP - June 15, 2012, 04:55 AM

So many of those who are our supposed role models are white males.

ITT, we discuss some of our role models that do not fit into this mold. I really admire Neil deGrasse Tyson, but can't think of any others off the top of my head. whistling2

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Re: Non white, non male role models

Reply #2 - June 15, 2012, 05:23 AM

Cornel West

Angela Davis

Naomi Klein

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Reply #4 - June 15, 2012, 10:08 AM

Rosa Parks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1]

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Parks was not the first to resist bus segregation. Others had taken similar steps in the twentieth century, including Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and Claudette Colvin nine months before Parks, but NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience.

Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, and Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.

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Re: Non white, non male role models

Reply #6 - June 15, 2012, 11:17 AM

Jesus

Before it gets too late, you will find escape.

Re: Non white, non male role models

Reply #8 - June 15, 2012, 11:28 AM

Genghis Khan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld8TIXRJgos

Before it gets too late, you will find escape.

Re: Non white, non male role models

Reply #10 - July 05, 2012, 12:25 PM

Some Japanese bright minds:

Reona Esaki, Chushiro Hayashi, RyogoKubo, Shin-ichiro Tomonaga, Hideki Yukawa, Junichiro Itani, Heisuke Hironaka, Shigefumi Mori, Kenichi Fukui, Hisashi Kimura, Reiji Okazaki, Michio Kaku

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