Champions Become Our Symbols -- The Brown Bomber
Champions Become Our Symbols
The Brown Bomber
Who was the Brown Bomber?
To millions of Negroes, in those days, Joe Louis was not only a great fighter but a symbol of the potential progress of Black people under the new American democracy.
In 1936, after 27 straight victories, a match was arranged between Joe Louis and the German boxer, Max Schmeling, representing Hitler’s Germany and all it stood for – the Aryan superiority theory and the denial of equal rights to the darker people – while Joe Lewis was the symbol of Negro hopes under the American democracy. We all knew who was right, didn’t we?
On the night of June 19, 1936, at Yankee Stadium in New York, Max Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis in the twelfth round. Over the crowd, a hush fell.
That night hundreds of Negroes wept openly on the streets of Harlem. The Black champion had become our symbol of all that was good in us and the potential in ourselves to become greater than what we were. That’s why we cried.
But a year later, in Chicago, the Brown Bomber defeated heroic Irish champion, James J. Braddock, to become heavyweight champion of the world.
In a return match with Max Schmeling in 1938, Joe Louis knocked out the German in the first round.
A look at the Brown Bomber and this is who he was -- A driven Champion, who became a symbol of progress to his people.
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F. Stanley Boyd
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posted by F. Stanley Boyd | 8:46 PM
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Our Creed:
Society will draw a circle that shuts us out, but our superior thought will draw us in. We were born to be great and to win if we do not spend too much time accepting the imposed failure of others.
We must annihilate the tags and names given me by society since we are the only ones that know what we have the ability for.
Failure or success takes the same amount of energy only in opposite directions. Success in never gained by playing games, but non-success is a direct result of games played and lost. Our only privilege is in the knowledge that others have struggle before us and succeeded against all odds. We must choose to be smart. Failure is not merely the absence of success, but rather the absence of sincere efforts. God made us the captains of our own lives, and therefore we must chart a course that defines our own success.
It is my our right to care about our selves and accept the consequences of our lack of sincere effort. We must realize that boundaries were set as limitations by mankind; God did not inform us of any boundaries.
We must become companions of success and not partners in misfortune.
It is in our heritage, culture, lineage, spirit, being and people to succeed. Challenges are only opportunities in the rough.
M. Raymond Sheppard
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