Comments on: (th)ink: Black Her-Story Month- Vonetta Flowers

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:49:02 +0000

Vonetta Flowers is still a HERO here back in BAMA!!!

go get ‘em tiger

By: Heath

Heath — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:59:56 +0000

There is only one way to settle this….Dance Fight!

By: Hairhead

Hairhead — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:50:27 +0000

I checked out your all-star all-black team and can’t disagree with any of them. And I agree that people need to see (and hear) a live hockey game to appreciate how exciting it is. I mean, there are 220-lb guys bashing each other into the boards at 25mph while waving clubs and chasing a 3-inch disk. Did you ever try to watch hockey on TV when Fox put a transponder in the puck so that it would leave a coloured trail on the screen! Quel horreur!

And I apologize for my Canadian team just barely beating the Americans for the gold medal. I got really angry when my team decided to turn turtle and protect their lead in the last ten minutes of the 3rd period — something which ALWAYS lead to the other team scoring. And if any American had scored in the overtime, it would have been the appropriate result.

And congrats to the American Olympic team for winning more medals than any country ever competing in the Olympic Games.

By: keef

keef — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:05:07 +0000

What?!! Flowers had the Gold around her neck before Iginla even played in the semi-finals! It was not a tie!!

And if you use pish-tosh on my site again, you’ll be banned!!

By the way, Iginla, O’Ree, Fuhr and Georges Laraque are on my all-time black hockey team featured in my biographical strip on O’Ree.

http://www.kchronicles.com/2008/01/16/nhl/

By: Hairhead

Hairhead — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:43:41 +0000

And when I think of it, Iginla might deserve his own cartoon, the first black captain of an NHL team. It was good that Willy O’Ree, the first black player in the NHL, lived to see it, as he was the subject of much racial abuse when played (in Boston, of all places).

And there’s also Grant Fuhr the first black hockey superstar, back in 1983 or so, when he began to backstop the Edmonton Oilers to their Stanley Cups.