BLACK MODEL OF A MAN!

singer Barry White

You know I see this picture, and remember an interview the singer, Barry White did a few years before he died. The interviewer was condescending in his tone, white and famous. I can't remember the man's name, but I remember his obvious intent to trip Barry White up somehow.  Barry White never let himself down.

At one point in the televised interview the interviewer asked him how he could have both his ex-wife and his current girlfriend singing in his band. You could sense the giddiness of the interviewer and almost hear him behind his hand snickering and saying, "Get outa this one!"

In that deep sonorous voice of his Barry White looked steady into the man's eyes and said, "Because I am a man." Every layer of meaning fell into the landscape between the two men and the interviewer clearly stumbled from the overwhelming power of Barry White's life force in his words and posture! 

That was one of the great moments and stances of power a man can make and demonstrate to his enemies and to younger men in need of examples of a deeper sense of manhood. It was a way to place histories into a perspective that showed that the progress of history and evolution is determined in the substance and potency of a man's life force, and his words. To speak to the core essence of one's manhood in the name of being a man is the way of a man in the deepest sense of the word. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.7.14