There are only two requirements to be an Uncle Tom: African American heritage and a willingness to give white people what they want—to an extraordinary degree—to their benefit, and to your own. In an age of changing race dynamics, who is an Uncle Tom and who is not has a compelling interest to people of all races.
There’s a reason after all why even the most conservative Republican leaders have a Negro, or two, in background shots when making major announcements. For better or worse, despite our troubled history with the white majority during slavery and during Jim Crow, African Americans are seen as the conscience of the United States. But “black people” doesn’t mean everyone. It is therefore a fair question who among us is a Tom and doing the unconscionable. In other words, who is for sale and who is not?
To cut to the case, 10 names are listed below, Uncle Toms all but of varying degrees and for different reasons. Seven of the ten are household names while one is an influential journalist and another is general counsel to the premier public university system in the world. One is a former military officer who became a high Washington bureaucrat. Each is a race traitor. Individual dialectic and doctrinal crimes will be enumerated but there are some commonalities, not just that one has deferred to the white race—that’s an everyday occurrence for people of color living in the most powerful country in the world with the most powerful Caucasians. You have to do some of what The White Man and The White Woman ask, or be crushed for your refusal. The unspoken rule is however that you get called out when your accommodation reaches unseemly levels. And it’s a judgment call what is unseemly. First, however, the list, which is not ordinal, only categorial.
That means that while #1 in this example, Oprah Winfrey, is arguably the biggest Tom in the world, #2—the actor Morgan Freeman—is not the second biggest race traitor living. He’s merely one of many, in this case a top ten Tom, which rhymes, btw, Top Ten Tom, but he's not the #2. Undue accommodation is hard to quantify in any particular order. There are Toms for instance, there are worse Toms, or bigger Toms, but identifying “the worst” or biggest Tom as mentioned above is really impossible. What Oprah is really is the richest or most prominent Tom not the biggest sellout, unless you’re counting her money, in which case she is. Does that make sense? Nor, btw, is this list exhaustive. In other words these are not the only Toms out there.
Uncle Toms can be found everywhere, in every field of endeavor, from education to the world of business to policing. A lot of black chiefs or police and sheriffs, for example, rise to high office by shooting other Negroes or by locking up their own peeps who aren’t guilty. Black public officials are particularly prone to selling out to the white power structure, as seen through a black revolutionary lens.
For instance in my hometown, Austin, Texas—World Capital of Live Music—the current black city council member is a Tom, as is the state representative whose district includes the disappearing black part of town—which this black legislator has helped to sell to white real estate interests—and the former police chief, who is also a sister, btw, like the legislator and the city council member. These are Tomasinas if one used that term for female Toms which one does not, actually. The new city manager, who is black, hasn’t been here long enough to sell out but the last black city manager did, and when he finally developed a backbone, late in his stay in the Texas capital, he was ousted by white business interests during a quarrel over the staging of the South by Southwest festival. So, like, there is an element of danger to being or not being a Tom. And also of comedy.
Black humor, of course.
Target stores are currently under boycott by black people for various DEI crimes, which we will not get into here. Suffice it to say that the boycott has been so popular and deemed so important that it has been extended. So, like, in Target’s new ad campaign there is just a pair of hands shown and the hands belong to, you guessed it, the black peep. Allegedly to show the company’s commitment to inclusivity, which no one particularly believes but when a business is in a P.R. hole, it’s the kind of thing management thinks will help. Anyway, there’s a funny TikTok video by an African American comedian as she draws attention to Target not showing a face, just a pair of black hands, as the TikTok lady tries to identify the race traitor in our midst.
She rolls her eyes and says she’s compiling a list of possible suspects of breaking the boycott, in other words, of Toms, although she doesn’t use the term. What’s interesting is that her list includes her own sister. She calls her sis to ask, like, are those your hands and her sister hangs up on her. But she calls again and her sister, who is a dentist, and has nice hands, says no it’s not me and says she’s still boycotting the company.
At first the narrator strikes her sister from the list of suspects but then returns her to the list with an asterisk as a still possible race traitor or, yes, Uncle Tom. “We’re not angry,” the black TikTok lady says a couple of times, “we’re just disappointed.” There’s some more eye action here, black people are especially adept at communicating disapproval/disbelief without saying anything that, in the past, might have gotten us lashed or killed. Not exactly eye rolling but a clear effort to convey that she is more than disappointed? That’s the comedic view of being a Tom or a proto-Tom but some people are angry at Target and have posted less amusing videos about boycotting the company.
The point is that there’s a reason it’s just a pair of hands, because any African American actress who allowed her face to be shown in a Target ad right now would likely be called out as a Tom. Black people in this country know how important it has been to maintain a united front to achieve progress and, consequently, there’s little patience with race traitors. Which is why a list is helpful, in order to remember who is who, kind of like the tiktok sister’s list. That’s why a list of Ten Top Toms is so illustrative—because we’re both disappointed and angry, actually.
As you read on you will learn why Barack Obama is not named but former Vice President Kamala Harris is, and why Michael Jordan formerly of the NBA is, but Michael B. Jordan of Hollywood is not. Beyonce isn’t but her hubbie Jay-Z is, most def. If being named a Tom were like an Academy Award it would be called the “Tommie” and the actual award would be a Golden Handkerchief, or a Hankie, like an Oscar, for short? For biggest handkerchief head.
Without further ado:
1) Oprah
2) Morgan Freeman
3) Condoleezza Rice
4) Jay-Z
5) Kamala Harris
6) Michael Jordan
7) Dean Baquet
8) Charles Robinson
9) Clarence Thomas
10) General Lloyd Austin
Before getting down to specific race crimes, a few words on nomenclature, which is surprisingly important. Used interchangeably here are Uncle Tom and handkerchief head. Back in the day, field workers wore handkerchiefs for protection from the sun, while brothers and sisters today wear them as a cultural and/or artistic commentary that should not be confused with subservience. In addition, in the past, technically a woman who displayed Tom-like subservience was known as an “Aunt Jemimah,” named after a famous brand of pancake mix, but that term will not be used here. There is also of course “house nigger,” which is still popular. Interestingly, a few years ago a Jewish comedian, Bill Maher, offended vast swathes of the black population by describing himself as a house nigger. He also used the term incorrectly.
This was no real surprise—that he made a fool of himself and had to apologize—because Caucasians, especially American Jews, often believe themselves to be so “close” to black people that they can take liberties with us and our culture. In the past comedian Sarah Silverman used the N-word in her standup routines, although just this week she apologized publicly and she is kind of hot which cuts her some slack. Hot women are forgiven some high crimes and misdemeanors, because in race-warrior dogma, these women may have shown lapsed attention to right and wrong because they’re busy being hot. Does that make sense? There’s a photo a few years ago of Sarah in a bikini and she totally rocked the swimsuit.
This is however still a worrisome habit with white people which also carries liability for blacks because if you hear a white person, Jew or gentile, using the N-word and you don’t speak up you are, by definition, an Uncle Tom! That's how the system works. There's very little wiggle room for anyone, even our Jewish brothers and sisters. After all, blackface in the 20th Century was popularized by a Lithuanian Jew, Al Jolson, singing “Mammy.” There's no patience left, bro, either at Target or in Hollywood.
It’s no surprise therefore that Bill Maher's use of the term was both wrong and wrong, Maher believing that being a house nigger conveys an easy life, in common parlance, whereas what it really means in black revolutionary dogma—first and foremost—is subservience to a white agenda, which leads to an easier life. Does that make sense? You can’t put the wagon before the horse, bro. It may seem to be a subtle distinction but it’s fundamental to rooting out Toms. Black people don’t believe there’s anything wrong with easy living, the problem is what you do to achieve it. In any case, all race traitors, regardless of gender, will be called Toms here.
A few words on methodology are also appropriate. The term Uncle Tom comes from the hugely popular pre-Civil War novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but you already know that. There’s a scene at the beginning of the book when Tom’s “kindly” owner has encountered financial difficulties and is about to sell his favorite Negro down the river, which is a sequence of events, btw, that we still see today post-Emancipation when whites get in trouble and decide whom to sell out first and usually it’s also a Negro. In any case, in the book Tom’s sale will lead to a less comfortable existence for the titular slave—and separation from his wife—and in order to make the sale, Tom’s owner recounts for the prospective new owner a tale of Tom’s upright character. Tom was dispatched on plantation business to the free state of Ohio, where he could have escaped to Canada, but instead Tom returned to the plantation carrying $500 of the owner’s money from a transaction, his owner explains with great satisfaction. The argument is frequently made that the Uncle Tom of the book has become, through the years, confused with the subservience associated with the modern concept of a handkerchief head, but that Tom of the story was, actually, just an upright Negro who did the honest thing. On the contrary.
It’s a belief that has led to numerous misunderstandings through the years. White people even today expect us to be better than they are, morally, and ethically, which is not particularly hard to do, actually. But that has limits. The idea that we will accept poor behavior by Caucasians and that we are willing to make sacrifices on our own part and undergo hardships in order to help little blonde-haired Miss Ann or young white Master William to become a better person is very often misplaced, big time. Especially in mass media like the movies, where Caucasian audiences love that particular storyline. In the UTC context, if Tom really were an upright Negro—as part of a black revolutionary dialectic for example—he should have split for Canada, taking the money with him. But before he left he should have shot his “owner” in the head and burned down the Big House too. None of that happened because the Uncle Tom of the book was in fact an Uncle Tom, hate to break it to you, bro. Had he done his duty to the race, we probably wouldn’t still be struggling today with unreasonable expectations by white people.
Half those on the Tommie list have chosen, btw, non-blacks as their life partners. We won’t go there, personal attraction is a personal matter, but one may say with some certainty, that if one does not think that white people are the devil incarnate, which some black people still do believe, it’s probably easier to ask for or accept a first date. Does that make sense? Practically everyone listed has had a significant business or professional relationship with white people, which is kind of inescapable living in the U.S. In fact it’s also safe to say that Toms are all about the money or the professional advantage of kowtowing to white people and do not really view whites anymore, if ever, as superior beings or as inherently commendable people. Although it is worrisome that many of the figures on the list, or almost on the list, Barack Obama for example, are rarely seen in public with other black people. But of all the things you can say about Barry, even the less salutary aspects of his career in politics, “He’s a Tom” is still not one of them. To be explained presently, in the why-Kamala-is context.
There’s only one exception on the list, Justice Thomas, as a possible example of black self-hate. Thomas apparently did not like his origins as a poor Negro born to a formerly Gullah-speaking family in Savannah, which is fine, he had ambitions and sought to better himself. But he has done that almost exclusively by tying his wagon to white people. Like Barack Obama, actually, but there's a big difference. Justice Thomas is a guy who doesn’t seem to much like himself which is totally cool because a lot of other people don’t seem to like him either. Barack Obama on the other hand is full of self-appreciation which in this context is a good thing.
As a historical note, for those who believe that the Bush family represents the Old School sane Republican Party, it helps to recall that the biggest conservative whackjob on the United States Supreme Court today, Clarence Thomas was appointed by Bush the Elder, and the second biggest, Samuel Alito, was appointed by Bush the Younger. (Here the list is ordinal.) So, too, the primary Democratic bane in the Lone Star State, and the object of ire of black Representative Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, who almost made the Top Ten Tom list herself, btw, is Governor Greg Abbott. The Texas governor was an unknown judge in Houston until George W. Bush appointed him to the Texas Supreme Court, where Justice Abbott began his political rise. George W. Bush is also responsible for the rise of Condi the Barbarian, aka Butcher of Baghdad. But we won’t get into that here, either. Or not much.
The good news is that Toms appear to be a slowly dying breed. It has become harder and harder to find them, at least in public life, because black people know what is expected of our leadership and we are, frankly, watching for missteps. DEI may be officially dead but not its principles. A back of the envelope calculation is that there are more opportunities today to be a Tom but fewer takers. Most of the Toms on our list are of a certain age, while most black young people today expect equal opportunity and expect to keep their dignity too. Michael Jordan formerly of the Chicago Bulls is 62 and silent while Michael B. Jordan of the movies is 38 and has spoken up. And we all know the history now better than in the past, because we’re writing it, instead of Tom-friendly white historians, especially white liberals who pose as white saviors. Not to beat what should be a dead horse.
The test, in the last couple of years, that has mostly helped to separate the Toms from the rest of us is, interestingly, the Gaza War. There’s been a decided reluctance until relatively recently—after Israeli inhumanity became undeniable—to call out genocide, and before the war to call out Israeli oppression. For example as mentioned above Jasmine Crockett who is a firebrand member of Congress from Dallas, and who has never spoken a measured word in her political life—including some really tacky anti-disabled comments about Governor Abbott—suddenly becomes diplomatic and understanding of the Israeli position when discussing the massacre of Palestinians. Jewish business interests in the U.S., with family and cultural ties in the Middle East, have shown no reluctance to blacklist—in politics or even in the entertainment industry—and cut campaign contributions to candidates who have spoken up for the Palis.
In fact, despite fiery rhetoric against Republicans, Representative Crockett is already on the road to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, although she hasn’t yet arrived, because she’s hot and may one day, one hopes, choose to turn off to a more morally-sustainable destination. Generally it takes a while to get there and isn’t solely about one’s faulty vision on one issue, unless you’re, like, a pro-Klu Klux Klan black person, or a total African-American whackjob like #10 on our list. It hasn’t all been about Palestine, in other words. Some Toms have been selling themselves for a long time. Let’s take a look.
1) Oprah, the “Big O,” or “Okra” as she is known less charitably by some, is a formidable person on so many levels. But not all of them are good. A billionaire with a book club, a movie career and a magazine that only displayed her on the cover, month after month for 20 years, what’s not to like if you want to be influential? The problem for Oprah is that she starts out with a high index of suspicion because her market has been identified for so long by white women. Which means, regardless of her impact, that she is tap dancing for one audience. There’s also that disquieting quote from biographer Kitty Kelley, early in Oprah’s rise, in which Oprah described herself as a member of the Kennedy clan, no shit. We can leave that for discussion on her therapist’s couch, still, the constant attention to her image does get a little old. Another great African American of her generation, Denzel Washington, for example, has through the years quietly funded rehab for wounded soldiers in San Antonio. Everything that Oprah does on the other hand comes with a press release and is, ultimately, about the Big O, not other people. A black journalist who has interviewed Oprah, and also interviewed a prominent black America diva, Diana Ross of the Supremes, said that with the singer, the writer could tell that the diva was trying to pretend she was a nice down-to-earth person when clearly she was not. She was a diva instead, not that there's anything wrong with that. While Oprah one-on-one was genuinely nice. There’s no reason not to believe that is true. This is a very complex woman. But Oprah’s personal charm is not to be confused with Oprah the Corporation, which is similar to Target in terms of its primary aim, profitability.
2) Morgan Freeman is a wonderful actor with a soulful and worldly-wise voice and thru the years it’s been possible to watch his star-ward progress as the roles available to him have expanded. He has played God, presidents (including Nelson Mandela) and convicts. Unfortunately he also had any number of roles as sidekicks or servants of white people—magic Negroes in fact—most famously in Driving Miss Daisy which is the one role that continues to define him and puts him on our list today: “Winner of the Academy Award® for best picture of 1989, this gracefully moving drama, adapted from the hit play by Alfred Uhry, chronicles the 25-year friendship between a stubborn, aging Southern widow (Jessica Tandy) and her loyal chauffeur (Morgan Freeman),” which sounds uncomfortably like Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Wheels. For starring in a movie with that title alone, Driving Miss Daisy, come the revolution, Freeman deserves a blindfold and a last cigarette. Maybe no cigarette, actually. Indeed if Uncle Tom’s Cabin were filmed in the modern era, Freeman is the first actor to come to mind to play the lead. This is the historical danger of performing as a stereotype in a movie, no matter how big the box office. The title of another one of his many films offers a needed perspective: Guilty by Association. Which leads, btw, to another Hollywood actor who would be on this list for a single role, were he still living, Michael Clarke Duncan. The film is The Green Mile, staring America’s favorite white actor, Tom Hanks, based upon a Stephen King story that should be called, Driving Miss Daisy to Prison. The extraordinarily embarrassing plot, and role for which Duncan was nominated for an Oscar, features a black prisoner willing to be executed for a crime he didn’t commit in order to cure the white warden’s wife’s cancer, which the inmate has taken into his own body, a la a Magic Negro, to spare the white woman. This is the kind of shit Hollywood loves, and white audiences too. If Michael Duncan were still alive he would be on our list but Tommies, like Nobel Prizes, are only bestowed upon the living.
3) Condoleezza Rice. This is an easy one. As National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to President George W. Bush, she played a big part in the deaths of tens of thousands of dark-skinned people in the Middle East. Secretary Rice deserves neither the blindfold nor the last cigarette. Somehow she has escaped criticism because she left D.C., and as is often mentioned, as if it’s a mitigating factor in her guilt, Condi speaks French and plays the piano. So did many of the Nazis. It’s interesting that a few years ago a young black woman who attended Stanford, where Condi returned as a scholar after laying waste to Iraq, said how admirable and what a “role model” Professor Rice was to black women for the power she had achieved. The young woman speaking was from Ghana, and had come to the U.S. as a student, not growing up in the culture of the civil rights movement, and thus displaying one of the principal differences between slave-descended blacks and African-born brothers and sisters who come to this country and think it’s a candy store. Not all success is to be admired, bro. In this country, Toms still get called out.
4) Jay-Z. Mr. Beyonce strikes out on two counts. Artistic merit doesn’t cut you any slack nor does having grown up hard in the hood. In Jay-Z’s case, in the Bronx. It’s not how you grew up, bro, it’s your adult behavior that counts, especially once you’re past your salad days. Like Oprah, Jay-Z has achieved billionaire status but he seems more interested in adding to his pile—and buying bling—than helping the downtrodden, although his rap, to the media, is totally different. The excellent biography of Jay-Z by Michael Eric Dyson captures the former and the latter. In the epilogue, Dyson points to Jay-Z wearing a sweatshirt memorializing the black quarterback Colin Kaepernick who stood up to football’s white power structure. Then, shortly thereafter, switching sides, Jay-Z signed a $25 million contract with the league. Despite efforts to put the transaction in the best light, that’s the definition of selling out. Beyonce’s record, on the other hand, shows a lot of interaction with the Israelis, and little support for the Palestinians, but she was an early proponent of Black Lives Matter and she’s been giving Country Music’s white culture a headache recently, which is a good thing. And she’s hot.
5) Kamala Harris. The major difference between former Vice President Harris and former President Barack Obama is success in two elections. The fundamental theory of running for any elective office is doing some nasty or distasteful shit to be elected and then, in office, doing things that are transformational or good. Vice President Harris was totally dodgy on the campaign trail, lying about a clearly dysfunctional Joe Biden (although in all fairness, her campaign can also be seen as a way to push Biden to the exit), support for a genocidal Israel, and backing of the 1% that has become the leadership of the modern Democratic Party. Most of which looks a lot like Barack Obama on the campaign trail too. The difference is that Obama won his election, twice, which gave him the opportunity to do some good things, as in health care. While Harris is still most memorably known—to use a great one-liner that you heard in San Francisco—from her time as S.F. district attorney and later as California Attorney General: “She never met a black man she didn’t want to lock up.”
6) Michael Jordan. Arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, the one and only MJ has had a less illustrious history post-National Basketball Association. As is true with Oprah, and Jay-Z, he is a billionaire who has, for example, not pledged to give away his wealth. That’s because, as is the case with Barack, and Oprah, it’s all about Michael. There’s a truly odious anecdote, that hopefully is apocryphal, allegedly told by fellow NBA superstar Charles Barkley of walking down the street with Jordan, and being asked for a dollar by a homeless person, and Jordan refusing and saying, words to this effect, “Let him make it the same way I did.” Jordan’s self-gaze is particularly unfortunate because he is one of those former athletes with more to offer than mere money. There’s an interview he gave, once again about the Colin Kaepernick blacklisting by the NFL, that is astounding because Jordan is as well-spoken and analytical as he was effective on the basketball court. This is a very very very intelligent and thoughtful guy, which he ought to get more credit for as a player, namely his brain power as well as his ball handling skills. But in the end it’s all about him. Compare basketball’s Michael Jordan for example to the black American athlete who changed this country and the world, Muhammad Ali. Like with MJ on the basketball court, there’s actually no comparison.
7) Dean Baquet. One of the most powerful behind-the-scenes Negroes in recent years, former executive editor of both the L.A. Times and the New York Times. To cut to the chase, you don’t get to rise to the top position in American journalism by challenging the status quo. During his eight years in the big chair in New York, Baquet continued what has been the NYT’s historical policy of covering up mistreatment of the Palestinians, the Times’ embrace of elitism and long record of lagging hiring and promotion of minorities—except the big guy himself. To say nothing of the White Lady’s less savory racial policies in print, such as largely ignoring Latinos, and blacks being used mostly as vehicles for “liberal” self-promotion of white saviors. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Also to be laid at Baquet’s feet is the beginning of what appears now to be a very one-sided view of Donald Trump’s first term. You may not like the guy, Trump that is, but under Baquet’s leadership the N.Y. Times-Democrat began calling out everything Trump-related as wrong, a policy that is once again in effect today, while having ignored wrongdoing during the Obama and Biden administrations. It's called biased journalism, bro, which is in none of our best interests. In Baquet’s favor, and it’s a big deal, is the excellent 1619 Project, and #metoo (not to discount the work of the female journalists involved). Two errata: there’s a cool half hourlong video of Baquet interviewing Jay-Z, in which you can see the fear in Jay-Z’s eyes as he is being asked about the NFL, in other words questioned about being a Tom, which Baquet does not pursue. Jay-Z uses the opportunity to unnecessarily and falsely praise NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who is a pro-Israel whackjob and acts like a modern-day plantation overseer, censoring speech of mostly black athletes. It turns out well though because included is a brief and pithy observation of why basketball players are more outspoken than football players, Jay-Z’s explanation being that the smaller size of a NBA squad makes easier political organizing (while one might add, no irony intended, that basketball players are not constantly being knocked on the head.) Another interesting fact is that so many of those mentioned in any review of Toms and not-Toms, spent time in Chicago, including Barry, Oprah, MJ and Dean Baquet, who won a Pulitzer while working as a reporter there. Michael Clarke Duncan of the truly horrendous The Green Mile was also a Chicago guy. Don’t know what that means but there’s obviously something in the water.
8) Charles Robinson. This Harvard graduate and silk-stocking lawyer is from an upper crust section of Philly and serves as a placeholder for all the black people in management across the country who have sold out to The White Man. And The White Woman. Robinson’s conduct during two decades as General Counsel of the University of California, all ten campuses, regarding race, equity and transparency has been execrable and slime-filled but the best argument to include him on the list is actually a photo. You’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words? It’s true, bro, and helps you to spot Toms too. What does this one tell you?
9) Lloyd Austin. Former four-star Army general and President Biden’s Secretary of Defense. Primary enabler of the Israel Defense Forces during the Gaza War, who signed off on more than a few arms shipments to the IDF and is in large part responsible for the deaths of thousands of dark-skinned people. To say nothing of his side hustle after his army service and before joining the Biden Administration, as a defense contractor. The U.S. Army through which General Austin rose to four-star rank actually has made great strides in civil rights, through the years, by ending segregated practices and by elevating excellent black officers to command. This guy is not one of those. Like Secretary Rice, General Austin has blood on his hands and a lot of it. Like Condi, no last cigarette and no blindfold.
10) Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. For some of the preceding individuals, come the day of revolutionary justice, there will be a last cigarette and a blindfold. For some no blindfold and for some no cigarette. For Justice Thomas, there’ll be no trial. We’ve already heard enough to pass judgment. And interestingly, while one generally does not want to explore a Tom’s personal life, or marriage to a person of no color, Jennie Thomas is the exception because she seems to be an even bigger whackjob than he is. Normally black men are exempt from this particular complaint, btw, because brothers are only trying to bed white women in order to prevent them from mating with white guys. It's actually a kind of selflessness on our part. In other words, denying white men breeding resources, does that make sense? When that happens, the general idea is hit and run, get the booty and move on. But in the case of the Thomases, what should have been a minor hit-and-run turned into a major accident.
It seems only fair, if one is going to name names and call out Toms and proto-Toms, that black people who have done the right thing—like the title of the movie by Spike Lee—often to the detriment of their own careers, or at great personal expense, literally, should also be named. A few black leaders in this regard to ponder:
1) Denzel Washington
2) Spike Lee
3) Professor Angela Davis (who kinda wrote the book on resistance)
4) Colin Kaepernick
5) Ta-Nehisi Coates
6) California Comptroller Malia Cohen (who represents the opposite extreme from University of California General Counsel Robinson, she is a black bureaucrat who grew up in the S.F. hood, became private secretary to then-Mayor Gavin Newsom, entered elective politics and still remains grounded and loyal to her peep)
7) Tech entrepreneur Robert F. Smith—from Austin actually—who wiped out student loan debt for an entire graduating class of a HBCU, Morehouse College. He has also signed a pledge to give away his wealth, unlike other African American billionaires.
8) Reverend Jesse Jackson
9) Michelle Obama
10) Viola Davis. She has admitted her bad role, in The Help, playing a maid for a bunch of overprivileged white women. Otherwise, she’s a gem, and could also give Morgan Freeman lessons in acting.
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