HERO= Ali..........Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Abe Lincoln

Speaking of Malcom ... I once managed a lodge at a nature preserve type facility that was owned by a college. Different groups would reserve and use the facility. One of them was the Black Student Union which came up for a two-day retreat each fall.

I'd keep the fires going (we heated with wood) in the fireplace inserts at each end of the main hall.

I'd have to do so sometimes in the middle of events; such is the need for heat when there is snow on the ground.

So I quietly let myself in, trying to be as unnoticed as possible so as not to disturb, and there are 60 or 70 black students sitting on the floor, watching a documentary on Malcom X on the movie screen. As I filled the stove, I heard him start talking about 'whitey' in the worst possible terms, how whitey had done this and that and kept the black folk down ...

I had never heard any of his rhetoric that was quite that anti-white.

It was a very uncomfortable "whitey" that stepped out from behind that movie screen and, even more quietly than I had entered the room, but certainly more quickly, found my way to the exit ...