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[h1]Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Black man did first open heart surgery[/h1]
Posted on 01/04/2008 by charismaallover

            

         Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded the Provident

Hospital and Training School Association. The school



trained Black nurses and allowed doctors of all races.



Williams insisted that the hospital have the highest



standards of procedures and sanitary conditions.



(So he was the best doctor. He was not careless and



I commend him for his safety precautions. If more doctors



do what he do, they would be better people.)



      2 and a half years later, on July 9, 1893 a



man names James Cornish was hurt in a bar fight..



Cornish was stabbed in the chest with a knife.



During his ride to Provident  Hospital he was



inching closer to death. He had went into shock



and lost a lot of blood.



        So it was up to Daniel Hale Williams to save him.



Daniel Hale Williams decided to operate on the man



so he opened the man’s chest. Williams save



the damage to Cornish’s pericardium ( also



known as the sac around the heart). He sutured it



and then applied antiseptic procedures before



closing the chest. 51 days later, James



Cornish walked out of Provident Hospital



fully recovered and lived 50 more years.



        The procedure that Dr. Daniel Hale Williams did was unheard of



until the black man Dr. Daniel Hale Wiliams did the operation.



So he was the first person to do an open heart surgery. Also



as recognition of his brilliance, he was the 1st surgeon to open the



chest cavity successfully without the patient dying of



infection.



        This information is located here:



http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/danielwilliams.html

http://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/p/Daniel_Williams.htm
 
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[h1]Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Black man did first open heart surgery[/h1]
Posted on 01/04/2008 by charismaallover

            

         Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded the Provident

Hospital and Training School Association. The school



trained Black nurses and allowed doctors of all races.



Williams insisted that the hospital have the highest



standards of procedures and sanitary conditions.



(So he was the best doctor. He was not careless and



I commend him for his safety precautions. If more doctors



do what he do, they would be better people.)



      2 and a half years later, on July 9, 1893 a



man names James Cornish was hurt in a bar fight..



Cornish was stabbed in the chest with a knife.



During his ride to Provident  Hospital he was



inching closer to death. He had went into shock



and lost a lot of blood.



        So it was up to Daniel Hale Williams to save him.



Daniel Hale Williams decided to operate on the man



so he opened the man’s chest. Williams save



the damage to Cornish’s pericardium ( also



known as the sac around the heart). He sutured it



and then applied antiseptic procedures before



closing the chest. 51 days later, James



Cornish walked out of Provident Hospital



fully recovered and lived 50 more years.



        The procedure that Dr. Daniel Hale Williams did was unheard of



until the black man Dr. Daniel Hale Wiliams did the operation.



So he was the first person to do an open heart surgery. Also



as recognition of his brilliance, he was the 1st surgeon to open the



chest cavity successfully without the patient dying of



infection.



        This information is located here:



http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/danielwilliams.html

http://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/p/Daniel_Williams.htm
 
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African-American astronauts who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
[table][tr][th=""]#[/th][th=""]Image[/th][th=""]Name
Birth date[/th][th=""]Comment[/th][th=""]Missions (Launch date)[/th][/tr][tr][td]1[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...69/Bluford_PSU.jpg/80px-Bluford_PSU.jpg[/img][/td][td]Guion Bluford
November 22, 1942
[/td][td]First African-American astronaut in space[/td][td]STS-8 (August 30, 1983)
STS-61-A (October 30, 1985)
STS-39 (April 28, 1991)
STS-53 (December 2, 1992)[/td][/tr][tr][td]2[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...onald_mcnair.jpg/80px-Ronald_mcnair.jpg[/img][/td][td]Ronald McNair
October 21, 1950
†January 28, 1986
[/td][td]Died on the Challenger[/td][td]STS-41-B (February 3, 1984)
STS-51-L (January 28, 1986)[/td][/tr][tr][td]3[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Gregory-f.jpg/80px-Gregory-f.jpg[/img][/td][td]Frederick D. Gregory
January 7, 1941
[/td][td]Acting Administrator of NASA, 2005[/td][td]STS-51-B (April 29, 1985)
STS-33 (November 22, 1989)
STS-44 (November 24, 1991)[/td][/tr][tr][td]4[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...harlesBolden.jpg/80px-CharlesBolden.jpg[/img][/td][td]Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
August 19, 1946
[/td][td]Administrator of NASA, July 17, 2009 - present[/td][td]STS-61-C (January 12, 1986)
STS-31 (April 24, 1990)
STS-45 (March 24, 1992)
STS-60 (February 3, 1994)[/td][/tr][tr][td]5[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...4e/Mae_Jemison.jpg/80px-Mae_Jemison.jpg[/img][/td][td]Mae Jemison
October 17, 1956
[/td][td]First African-American woman in space[/td][td]STS-47 (September 12, 1992)[/td][/tr][tr][td]6[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi....jpg/80px-Bernard_Anthony_Harris_Jr.jpg[/img][/td][td]Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
July 18, 1953
[/td][td]First African-American to walk in space[/td][td]STS-55 (April 26, 1993)
STS-63 (February 3, 1995)[/td][/tr][tr][td]7[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...inston_scott.jpg/80px-Winston_scott.jpg[/img][/td][td]Winston E. Scott
August 6, 1950
[/td][td]Veteran of 3 spacewalks[/td][td]STS-72 (January 11, 1996)
STS-87 (November 19, 1997)[/td][/tr][tr][td]8[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ert_Curbeam.jpg/80px-Robert_Curbeam.jpg[/img][/td][td]Robert Curbeam
March 5, 1962
[/td][td]Veteran of 7 spacewalks[/td][td]STS-85 (August 7, 1997)
STS-98 (February 7, 2001)
STS-116 (December 9, 2006)[/td][/tr][tr][td]9[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...derson.jpg/80px-Michael_P._Anderson.jpg[/img][/td][td]Michael Phillip Anderson
December 25, 1959
†February 1, 2003
[/td][td]Died on the Columbia[/td][td]STS-89 (January 22, 1998)
STS-107 (January 16, 2003)[/td][/tr][tr][td]10[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...Wilson.jpg/80px-Stephanie_D._Wilson.jpg[/img][/td][td]Stephanie Wilson
September 27, 1966
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-121 (July 4, 2006)
STS-120 (October 23, 2007)
STS-131 (April 5, 2010)[/td][/tr][tr][td]11[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...inbotham.jpg/80px-Joan_Higginbotham.jpg[/img][/td][td]Joan Higginbotham
August 3, 1964
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-116 (December 9, 2006)[/td][/tr][tr][td]13[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi..._drew-2007.jpg/80px-Alvin_drew-2007.jpg[/img][/td][td]B. Alvin Drew
November 5, 1962
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-118 (August 8, 2007)[/td][/tr][tr][td]14[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...eland_melvin.jpg/80px-Leland_melvin.jpg[/img][/td][td]Leland D. Melvin
February 15, 1964
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-122 (February 7, 2008)
STS-129 (November 16, 2009)[/td][/tr][tr][td]15[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ert_Satcher.jpg/80px-Robert_Satcher.jpg[/img][/td][td]Robert Satcher
September 22, 1965
[/td][td]EVA November 19 and November 23, 2009[/td][td]STS-129 (November 16, 2009)[/td][/tr][/table]
African-American astronauts who have not travelled into space.
[table][tr][th=""]Image[/th][th=""]Name
Birth date[/th][th=""]Comment[/th][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ertlawrence.jpg/80px-Robertlawrence.jpg[/img][/td][td]Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
October 2, 1935
†December 8, 1967
[/td][td]First African-American selected for astronaut training (1967) for the MOL program.
Died in an aircraft accident.[/td][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ivingston_Holder_Astronaut_Training.jpg[/img][/td][td]Livingston Holder
September 29, 1956
[/td][td]USAF Astronaut[/td][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi.../Yvonne_Cagle.jpg/80px-Yvonne_Cagle.jpg[/img][/td][td]Yvonne Cagle
April 24, 1959
[/td][td]Astronaut[/td][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...eanette_epps.jpg/80px-Jeanette_epps.jpg[/img][/td][td]Jeanette J. Epps
Nov. 2, 1970
[/td][td]Astronaut candidate[/td][/tr][/table]




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African-American astronauts who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
[table][tr][th=""]#[/th][th=""]Image[/th][th=""]Name
Birth date[/th][th=""]Comment[/th][th=""]Missions (Launch date)[/th][/tr][tr][td]1[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...69/Bluford_PSU.jpg/80px-Bluford_PSU.jpg[/img][/td][td]Guion Bluford
November 22, 1942
[/td][td]First African-American astronaut in space[/td][td]STS-8 (August 30, 1983)
STS-61-A (October 30, 1985)
STS-39 (April 28, 1991)
STS-53 (December 2, 1992)[/td][/tr][tr][td]2[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...onald_mcnair.jpg/80px-Ronald_mcnair.jpg[/img][/td][td]Ronald McNair
October 21, 1950
†January 28, 1986
[/td][td]Died on the Challenger[/td][td]STS-41-B (February 3, 1984)
STS-51-L (January 28, 1986)[/td][/tr][tr][td]3[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Gregory-f.jpg/80px-Gregory-f.jpg[/img][/td][td]Frederick D. Gregory
January 7, 1941
[/td][td]Acting Administrator of NASA, 2005[/td][td]STS-51-B (April 29, 1985)
STS-33 (November 22, 1989)
STS-44 (November 24, 1991)[/td][/tr][tr][td]4[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...harlesBolden.jpg/80px-CharlesBolden.jpg[/img][/td][td]Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
August 19, 1946
[/td][td]Administrator of NASA, July 17, 2009 - present[/td][td]STS-61-C (January 12, 1986)
STS-31 (April 24, 1990)
STS-45 (March 24, 1992)
STS-60 (February 3, 1994)[/td][/tr][tr][td]5[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...4e/Mae_Jemison.jpg/80px-Mae_Jemison.jpg[/img][/td][td]Mae Jemison
October 17, 1956
[/td][td]First African-American woman in space[/td][td]STS-47 (September 12, 1992)[/td][/tr][tr][td]6[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi....jpg/80px-Bernard_Anthony_Harris_Jr.jpg[/img][/td][td]Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
July 18, 1953
[/td][td]First African-American to walk in space[/td][td]STS-55 (April 26, 1993)
STS-63 (February 3, 1995)[/td][/tr][tr][td]7[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...inston_scott.jpg/80px-Winston_scott.jpg[/img][/td][td]Winston E. Scott
August 6, 1950
[/td][td]Veteran of 3 spacewalks[/td][td]STS-72 (January 11, 1996)
STS-87 (November 19, 1997)[/td][/tr][tr][td]8[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ert_Curbeam.jpg/80px-Robert_Curbeam.jpg[/img][/td][td]Robert Curbeam
March 5, 1962
[/td][td]Veteran of 7 spacewalks[/td][td]STS-85 (August 7, 1997)
STS-98 (February 7, 2001)
STS-116 (December 9, 2006)[/td][/tr][tr][td]9[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...derson.jpg/80px-Michael_P._Anderson.jpg[/img][/td][td]Michael Phillip Anderson
December 25, 1959
†February 1, 2003
[/td][td]Died on the Columbia[/td][td]STS-89 (January 22, 1998)
STS-107 (January 16, 2003)[/td][/tr][tr][td]10[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...Wilson.jpg/80px-Stephanie_D._Wilson.jpg[/img][/td][td]Stephanie Wilson
September 27, 1966
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-121 (July 4, 2006)
STS-120 (October 23, 2007)
STS-131 (April 5, 2010)[/td][/tr][tr][td]11[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...inbotham.jpg/80px-Joan_Higginbotham.jpg[/img][/td][td]Joan Higginbotham
August 3, 1964
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-116 (December 9, 2006)[/td][/tr][tr][td]13[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi..._drew-2007.jpg/80px-Alvin_drew-2007.jpg[/img][/td][td]B. Alvin Drew
November 5, 1962
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-118 (August 8, 2007)[/td][/tr][tr][td]14[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...eland_melvin.jpg/80px-Leland_melvin.jpg[/img][/td][td]Leland D. Melvin
February 15, 1964
[/td][td][/td][td]STS-122 (February 7, 2008)
STS-129 (November 16, 2009)[/td][/tr][tr][td]15[/td][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ert_Satcher.jpg/80px-Robert_Satcher.jpg[/img][/td][td]Robert Satcher
September 22, 1965
[/td][td]EVA November 19 and November 23, 2009[/td][td]STS-129 (November 16, 2009)[/td][/tr][/table]
African-American astronauts who have not travelled into space.
[table][tr][th=""]Image[/th][th=""]Name
Birth date[/th][th=""]Comment[/th][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ertlawrence.jpg/80px-Robertlawrence.jpg[/img][/td][td]Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
October 2, 1935
†December 8, 1967
[/td][td]First African-American selected for astronaut training (1967) for the MOL program.
Died in an aircraft accident.[/td][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ivingston_Holder_Astronaut_Training.jpg[/img][/td][td]Livingston Holder
September 29, 1956
[/td][td]USAF Astronaut[/td][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi.../Yvonne_Cagle.jpg/80px-Yvonne_Cagle.jpg[/img][/td][td]Yvonne Cagle
April 24, 1959
[/td][td]Astronaut[/td][/tr][tr][td][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...eanette_epps.jpg/80px-Jeanette_epps.jpg[/img][/td][td]Jeanette J. Epps
Nov. 2, 1970
[/td][td]Astronaut candidate[/td][/tr][/table]




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[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]**** Gregory may be a lunatic, I'm not sure. He's definitely a food zealot. For the better part of the past three decades, the man has been thriving on the very diet I just laid out. A fruitarian and rawfoodist, he eats nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables and their juices. He doesn't cook anything—won't even steam his vegetables—because he says they're already cooked by "Mother Nature's outdoor oven—sun, light, air, and moisture." Elaborating in a 1996 interview with Satya magazine, he says, "If you put one hand in boiling water, and you put your other hand in the deep freeze and leave it there overnight, neither one of those hands will be any good: It must do the same thing to food." You can't knock the guy's commitment—or his discipline—but come on. He's a little nuts, don't you think? [/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Wait, you do know who I'm talking about, right? **** Gregory. If you're under 30, you probably know him mainly as that diet guy, the guy who took 1,200-pound giant Walter Hudson under his wing (good Lord, not literally), and helped him shear off roughly half his body weight in about four months' time. After Hudson got jammed in the doorway of his Long Island bedroom in October of 1987—the fire department literally had to saw him free—Gregory showed up with his Bahamian Diet Nutritional Drink Mix ($19.95 a can) and a staff of assistants to blockade Hudson's fridge, and by February of '88 Hudson was a svelte 600. Ring a bell?[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Or maybe you're old enough to remember **** Gregory the entertainer. Yeah, sure you remember him. Funny guy. First black comic to hit it big without resorting to degrading blackface humor. He used to do edgy stuff, stuff about world politics and race relations: "When I get drunk, I think I'm Polish. One night I got so drunk I moved out of my own neighborhood," or "People keep telling me some of their best friends are colored. Let's face it. There just aren't that many of us to go round," or "They always talk about Russia dropping the bomb. I got news. If it happens, it's gonna be more like the 10,000 bombs. There'll be a 100-megaton bomb for New York, a fifty-megaton one for Chicago, a thirty-megaton for Cleveland—and a quarter-megaton job for Grosse Pointe. And it better be painted white—'cause if it's black, they ain't gonna let it in!"[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]After breaking through—he went from a salary of $5 a night in 1961 to $6,500 a week in '62—Gregory put his newfound status to good use. Activism was nothing new for him: As a champion miler at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1953, he had used his star status to integrate the town's movie theater. But as a star comic, Gregory became a national black hero. He marched with MLK throughout the South for civil rights. He was jailed and beaten by Birmingham police for parading without a permit in 1963. In '65, he took a bullet in the knee while trying to calm a crowd during the Watts riots. In '67, he ran for mayor of Chicago against a crooked Richard Daley and lost. In '68, he ran for president against a crooked Richard Nixon and lost that too, but he did manage to pull in an astonishing 1.5 million write-in votes. The guy was a political force.[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]And yet, as it turned out, all of that was merely prelude. **** Gregory, Entertainer, begat **** Gregory, Activist/Politician, who begat **** Gregory, Food Zealot. In November '67, Gregory weighed 288 pounds. He was a vegetarian, but while he didn't eat meat, he ate damn near everything else, plus he smoked four packs of cigarettes and drank about a quart of scotch a day. Then he began a public fast—starting Thanksgiving Day—to protest the war in Vietnam. 40 days later—40 days of nothing but distilled water while he continued to travel and lecture around the country—Gregory broke his fast with a hearty glass of fruit juice. He weighed 97 pounds.[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]He was hooked on fasting. In the summer of '68 he fasted for 45 days as a show of solidarity with Native Americans. The following summer he did another 45 days in protest of de facto segregation in the Chicago public schools. In 1970 he went 81 days—Jesus, think about that!—to bring attention to the narcotics problem in America. Beginning in 1971 he went nearly three years without solid foods, again to protest the war. Didn't slow him down any, either. During that stretch he ran 900 miles from Chicago to D.C., subsisting entirely on a kelp-based liquid formula, the prototype for the Bahamian diet drink for which he later became famous—again. We're talking about a guy who, in his high school yearbook, listed his career ambition as "cook."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]There's no question that, in many ways, the diet that changed Gregory's body so dramatically had an almost equally drastic effect on his life. In 1973, he stopped performing anywhere alcohol or smoking was permitted, effectively crippling his comedy career. (He didn't perform again until 1995, when he avoided boozy comedy clubs and cabarets altogether by working exclusively in theaters.) And as his disciplined restraint from solid foods developed into an almost perverse revulsion—"Every time I see food now I think of the war," he told Newsweek in 1971. "That plate actually turns into Vietnam." —Gregory picked up his wife and 10 children and moved them from their four-bedroom Chicago apartment to a rustic, unpolluted, five-house farm in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Irony, Part I: Among the estate's previous owners was tobacco giant Louis Liggett. Irony, Part II: **** Gregory, Natural Foods Fanatic, refused to farm his 400 acres, fearing a national food shortage in which "people will be killing each other for food, and wild dogs will be roaming the streets in search of something to eat." As he explained in an Ebony profile in November, 1974, "Look, when the food is all gone and these hungry folks start roaming around, don't you know I'd be a fool to have a farm with food growing all over the place!")[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Still, it would be a stretch to say that all this fasting signaled some kind of unexpected sea change in **** Gregory's personality. After all, as I've mentioned, he was already politically engaged—had been all his life. And the politics of eating was nothing new to him either—his 1965 decision to go vegetarian had been based on moral, not health, reasons. Above all, Gregory maintained the one thing that had given him his national soapbox in the first place—he was still funny. [/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]During his first fast he quipped, "I've lost so much weight, I look like Wilt 'The Stilt' Chamberlain... after taxes." On friends' reactions to his fasts: "When you go on a long fast, your friends really think you are going to die. They don't say anything, but they start treating you differently. Like, they don't loan you money anymore." On his hunger during a fast: "I was sitting on a plane not long ago next to one of those 'militant eaters'—you know, the kind that attacks his plate of food. He was sitting there eating his lunch and reading a Playboy magazine. When he got to the centerfold, he jabbed me in the ribs and showed me the picture of the nude model. He said, 'Any time you see something like that, what does it make you want to do?' I told him, 'Brother, as hungry as I am, I'd put an apron on her and tell her to get me something to eat!'"[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]But despite his jokes, this systematic minimization of food intake had an undeniably religious quality for Gregory (it'd have to, wouldn't it?). As he wrote in **** Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' With Mother Nature, "As my body was cleansed of years of accumulated impurities, my mind and spiritual awareness were lifted to a new level. I felt closer to Mother Nature and all her children. I felt more in tune with the universal order of existence. I was now aware of the meaning of the words I used to hear in church: 'The body is the temple of the spirit.' Just as Jesus drove the money-changers out of the temple, fasting had driven the 'devils of my former diet' from my own 'temple,' and my life changed completely."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Still, it's mind-boggling that Gregory could survive any of these fasts—and in particular the 81-day fast of 1970 (and subsequent fasts of similar lengths). He encountered a wall of worry during his first few major fasts from loved ones concerned that **** was getting just a bit too close to Mother Nature. As Dr. Charles Lee Williams, a friend of Gregory's, said during the first 40-day fast, "Whenever a person survives a fast for 30 days, we write them up in the medical journals. Now **** is planning to go even further. The prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps were better off than ****. Those unfortunates were on a starvation diet. They were at least eating some food. They were partially starved. **** is completely starved." Gregory's response? As he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989, "Strength does not necessarily come from eating. We need mental foods: faith, courage, love. If you feed yourself these things, your fears will leave you."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Let's hope so, because Gregory's next ambition on the food continuum makes fruitarianism look positively gluttonous. He calls it breathatarianism: "It is living entirely on a transcendental plane," he explains in Natural Diet, "breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water; in other words, living on what some writers call the 'supersubstantial bread.' I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living and an entirely possible way of life under ideal circumstances."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]So I don't know, maybe **** Gregory is a lunatic. But then again, maybe not. It's like he says: "I look at the obituaries every morning and ain't nobody listed but you eaters."[/font][/font]
 
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[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]**** Gregory may be a lunatic, I'm not sure. He's definitely a food zealot. For the better part of the past three decades, the man has been thriving on the very diet I just laid out. A fruitarian and rawfoodist, he eats nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables and their juices. He doesn't cook anything—won't even steam his vegetables—because he says they're already cooked by "Mother Nature's outdoor oven—sun, light, air, and moisture." Elaborating in a 1996 interview with Satya magazine, he says, "If you put one hand in boiling water, and you put your other hand in the deep freeze and leave it there overnight, neither one of those hands will be any good: It must do the same thing to food." You can't knock the guy's commitment—or his discipline—but come on. He's a little nuts, don't you think? [/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Wait, you do know who I'm talking about, right? **** Gregory. If you're under 30, you probably know him mainly as that diet guy, the guy who took 1,200-pound giant Walter Hudson under his wing (good Lord, not literally), and helped him shear off roughly half his body weight in about four months' time. After Hudson got jammed in the doorway of his Long Island bedroom in October of 1987—the fire department literally had to saw him free—Gregory showed up with his Bahamian Diet Nutritional Drink Mix ($19.95 a can) and a staff of assistants to blockade Hudson's fridge, and by February of '88 Hudson was a svelte 600. Ring a bell?[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Or maybe you're old enough to remember **** Gregory the entertainer. Yeah, sure you remember him. Funny guy. First black comic to hit it big without resorting to degrading blackface humor. He used to do edgy stuff, stuff about world politics and race relations: "When I get drunk, I think I'm Polish. One night I got so drunk I moved out of my own neighborhood," or "People keep telling me some of their best friends are colored. Let's face it. There just aren't that many of us to go round," or "They always talk about Russia dropping the bomb. I got news. If it happens, it's gonna be more like the 10,000 bombs. There'll be a 100-megaton bomb for New York, a fifty-megaton one for Chicago, a thirty-megaton for Cleveland—and a quarter-megaton job for Grosse Pointe. And it better be painted white—'cause if it's black, they ain't gonna let it in!"[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]After breaking through—he went from a salary of $5 a night in 1961 to $6,500 a week in '62—Gregory put his newfound status to good use. Activism was nothing new for him: As a champion miler at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1953, he had used his star status to integrate the town's movie theater. But as a star comic, Gregory became a national black hero. He marched with MLK throughout the South for civil rights. He was jailed and beaten by Birmingham police for parading without a permit in 1963. In '65, he took a bullet in the knee while trying to calm a crowd during the Watts riots. In '67, he ran for mayor of Chicago against a crooked Richard Daley and lost. In '68, he ran for president against a crooked Richard Nixon and lost that too, but he did manage to pull in an astonishing 1.5 million write-in votes. The guy was a political force.[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]And yet, as it turned out, all of that was merely prelude. **** Gregory, Entertainer, begat **** Gregory, Activist/Politician, who begat **** Gregory, Food Zealot. In November '67, Gregory weighed 288 pounds. He was a vegetarian, but while he didn't eat meat, he ate damn near everything else, plus he smoked four packs of cigarettes and drank about a quart of scotch a day. Then he began a public fast—starting Thanksgiving Day—to protest the war in Vietnam. 40 days later—40 days of nothing but distilled water while he continued to travel and lecture around the country—Gregory broke his fast with a hearty glass of fruit juice. He weighed 97 pounds.[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]He was hooked on fasting. In the summer of '68 he fasted for 45 days as a show of solidarity with Native Americans. The following summer he did another 45 days in protest of de facto segregation in the Chicago public schools. In 1970 he went 81 days—Jesus, think about that!—to bring attention to the narcotics problem in America. Beginning in 1971 he went nearly three years without solid foods, again to protest the war. Didn't slow him down any, either. During that stretch he ran 900 miles from Chicago to D.C., subsisting entirely on a kelp-based liquid formula, the prototype for the Bahamian diet drink for which he later became famous—again. We're talking about a guy who, in his high school yearbook, listed his career ambition as "cook."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]There's no question that, in many ways, the diet that changed Gregory's body so dramatically had an almost equally drastic effect on his life. In 1973, he stopped performing anywhere alcohol or smoking was permitted, effectively crippling his comedy career. (He didn't perform again until 1995, when he avoided boozy comedy clubs and cabarets altogether by working exclusively in theaters.) And as his disciplined restraint from solid foods developed into an almost perverse revulsion—"Every time I see food now I think of the war," he told Newsweek in 1971. "That plate actually turns into Vietnam." —Gregory picked up his wife and 10 children and moved them from their four-bedroom Chicago apartment to a rustic, unpolluted, five-house farm in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Irony, Part I: Among the estate's previous owners was tobacco giant Louis Liggett. Irony, Part II: **** Gregory, Natural Foods Fanatic, refused to farm his 400 acres, fearing a national food shortage in which "people will be killing each other for food, and wild dogs will be roaming the streets in search of something to eat." As he explained in an Ebony profile in November, 1974, "Look, when the food is all gone and these hungry folks start roaming around, don't you know I'd be a fool to have a farm with food growing all over the place!")[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Still, it would be a stretch to say that all this fasting signaled some kind of unexpected sea change in **** Gregory's personality. After all, as I've mentioned, he was already politically engaged—had been all his life. And the politics of eating was nothing new to him either—his 1965 decision to go vegetarian had been based on moral, not health, reasons. Above all, Gregory maintained the one thing that had given him his national soapbox in the first place—he was still funny. [/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]During his first fast he quipped, "I've lost so much weight, I look like Wilt 'The Stilt' Chamberlain... after taxes." On friends' reactions to his fasts: "When you go on a long fast, your friends really think you are going to die. They don't say anything, but they start treating you differently. Like, they don't loan you money anymore." On his hunger during a fast: "I was sitting on a plane not long ago next to one of those 'militant eaters'—you know, the kind that attacks his plate of food. He was sitting there eating his lunch and reading a Playboy magazine. When he got to the centerfold, he jabbed me in the ribs and showed me the picture of the nude model. He said, 'Any time you see something like that, what does it make you want to do?' I told him, 'Brother, as hungry as I am, I'd put an apron on her and tell her to get me something to eat!'"[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]But despite his jokes, this systematic minimization of food intake had an undeniably religious quality for Gregory (it'd have to, wouldn't it?). As he wrote in **** Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' With Mother Nature, "As my body was cleansed of years of accumulated impurities, my mind and spiritual awareness were lifted to a new level. I felt closer to Mother Nature and all her children. I felt more in tune with the universal order of existence. I was now aware of the meaning of the words I used to hear in church: 'The body is the temple of the spirit.' Just as Jesus drove the money-changers out of the temple, fasting had driven the 'devils of my former diet' from my own 'temple,' and my life changed completely."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Still, it's mind-boggling that Gregory could survive any of these fasts—and in particular the 81-day fast of 1970 (and subsequent fasts of similar lengths). He encountered a wall of worry during his first few major fasts from loved ones concerned that **** was getting just a bit too close to Mother Nature. As Dr. Charles Lee Williams, a friend of Gregory's, said during the first 40-day fast, "Whenever a person survives a fast for 30 days, we write them up in the medical journals. Now **** is planning to go even further. The prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps were better off than ****. Those unfortunates were on a starvation diet. They were at least eating some food. They were partially starved. **** is completely starved." Gregory's response? As he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989, "Strength does not necessarily come from eating. We need mental foods: faith, courage, love. If you feed yourself these things, your fears will leave you."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]Let's hope so, because Gregory's next ambition on the food continuum makes fruitarianism look positively gluttonous. He calls it breathatarianism: "It is living entirely on a transcendental plane," he explains in Natural Diet, "breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water; in other words, living on what some writers call the 'supersubstantial bread.' I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living and an entirely possible way of life under ideal circumstances."[/font][/font]

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][font=Times, Times New Roman, serif]So I don't know, maybe **** Gregory is a lunatic. But then again, maybe not. It's like he says: "I look at the obituaries every morning and ain't nobody listed but you eaters."[/font][/font]
 
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did a project back in elementary school about Garret Morgan. invented the gas mask and traffic signal
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did a project back in elementary school about Garret Morgan. invented the gas mask and traffic signal
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Originally Posted by Supermanblue79

Jesse Owens-
"games changer"

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*salute*

a TRUE American....

he styled on racism internationally AND domestically...

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