February 17, 2025

BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY: WE NEVER PLAYED THE GAME!

ALI-HAROLD BELL & KENDRICK LAMAR. WE SAW SOMETHING AND SAID SOMETHING!

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Performance Explained: Hidden Messages and Cultural Commentary / He hits the nail on the head!

AMAZON March 2024

In 1969 President Richard Nixon made me a Presidential Appointee. He changed my life forever. It was in 1957 that we met at the Burning Tree Golf Course in Bethesda, Maryland. It was there I became his caddy and friend. In 1969 we reconnected, he was on a tour of the 7th Street Corridor in NW DC after the 1968 riots and the rest is American History.

I was an all-around athlete at Spingarn High School in NE DC. I was trying to go to hell in a hurry until my Parkside Housing Project neighbor, Jody Waugh invited me to ride to the golf course one weekend to become a caddy. The Buring Tree Golf Course was another world compared to where I lived. All the caddies were Black and everyone seemed to be comfortable in their skin. It was a tight fraternity.

Today in most upscale golf courses in America, the Black caddy does not exist. They were kicked to the curb much like like Black jockeys. Isacc Murphy was the No. 1 jockey in the 1800s, he won several Kentucky Derbies, no one was even close. When it became mandatory to pay the caddy 10% of the player’s purse when they won a tournament, the players decided to make their sons, daughters, wives, and next-door neighbors became their caddies.

For example, if a player won a tournament purse of $100,000, his caddy would take home $10,000. Tiger Woods was no exception. He was never accused of being color-blind by Black caddies.

When Muhammad Ali shocked the world in Zaire, Africa in 1974 with a stunning 8th-round knockout of the undefeated and undisputed Heavyweight Champion George Foreman, there were hundreds of media waiting around the world to interview him.

He chose Harold Bell, an unknown sports radio talk show host in Washington, DC. It was his first and last exclusive interview. Fifty years later, the haters and fake news media still have not gotten over the Ali snub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5qVuUrDQY/

Ali’s Business Manager and confidant, Gene Kilroy once said, “Harold if you had been white you would be a millionaire and we would have been calling Howard Cosell, the Black Harold Bell.”

Dale Hansen, Dallas sportscaster voted the No. 1 sportscaster in America said, “Harold everything you have done makes my little bit look like the peeling off of the cover of ‘White Privilege’ and seemed rather insignificant.”

Nixon and Ali were two of the most controversial personalities in American history and they made Harold Bell “The Chosen One.” There was never, he says, she says, they were up close and personal–it is Black American History whether the haters and media like it or not.