Top three most powerful black people in America?

[union]

Here's my top three:



For obvious reasons Obama is number one.


Clarence Thomas is number two.



can't really think of a good third so I'll give Eric Holder the third spot.


Disagreements, inputs, inevitable contemptuous ad hominems toward Thomas?

[FAH1223]

Oprah.

[yunis09]

Advo after his recent election to office

[Blue_609]

the most powerful black man in america



kimbo slice

[Voltage]

1. Obama
2. Oprah
3. Al Sharpton

The God honest truth

[melo]

1- Obama
2- Oprah
3- Jay Z

[union]

@ Voltage Does anybody really take Al Sharpton that serious? I think he's more like a t.v celebrity now instead of a legit civil rights leader


I can't believe I forgot oprah fah,she is indeed definitely in the top three


But Clarence Thomas has a lifetime appointment in the Supreme Court so he's in there.

1. Obama (for the next 2 years at least, perhaps 4 more years after that)
2. Clarence Thomas (until he retires from supreme court, probably 10-15 years more)
3. Oprah, queen of prime time talk shows

[Voltage]

For me most powerful blacks are blacks that can carry the Black agenda, that can give it power and respect. Clarence Thomas represents himself. To me Bader-Ginsburg is more of a powerful black person before Thomas, at least she carries and represents the Black agenda even though she is Jewish lady.

Obam is obviously the most powerful Black man in the world. He led to a Black mayor in Slovenia. Then Oprah who singlehandedly represents Black women around the world.

Then next is AL Sharpton. If you ever need power the fast way as a Black person, just call Al Sharpton. Believe it or not Al Sharpton is among the most feared and appeased people in America. He just came back from a nation tour with Gingrich of all people about how to improve education for America's children (Read: inner city urban kids). I mean Gingrich is the former speaker of the Republicans and presidential candidate. How more legitimized can Sharpton get?

Al Sharpton saying "das raycest" just once is more powerful than a nuclear bomb being dropped in America.

[union]

Whites who carry the black agenda are far too many to count. Nancy Pelosi, the Clinton's, etc. This is for racial blacks, and regardless of your disagreements with Thomas's conservative positions he is black and a powerful jurist. Being powerful doesn't mean being good. Al Sharpton I think has a lot of celebrity power but he lost a lot of credibility after the Duke rape case where it was proven that the woman was lying.

[Voltage]

F*ck Clarence Thomas. No doubt he is a powerful American, a powerful man, a powerful individual, but I and most people would never put him in the "powerful Black" in America like I would put Obama, Oprah, gen Colin Powell, Eric Holder, or even for that matter Condoleeza Rice who is a conservative.

Thomas got to where he is by attacking the Black agenda, I don't think then you can bring him around to represent the image of powerful Black man. He is a powerful man.

[Nabeela]

-Obama
-Oprah

Can't think of a 3rd person right now.

[Ataleof]

People need to learn the difference between 'powerful' and 'influential'.

[abdalla11]

How come you guys forgot Jesse Jackson?

Obama
Oprah
Jesse Jackson

[union]

F*ck Clarence Thomas. No doubt he is a powerful American, a powerful man, a powerful individual, but I and most people would never put him in the "powerful Black" in America like I would put Obama, Oprah, gen Colin Powell, Eric Holder, or even for that matter Condoleeza Rice who is a conservative.

Thomas got to where he is by attacking the Black agenda, I don't think then you can bring him around to represent the image of powerful Black man. He is a powerful man.

Clarence Thomas is black because of the circumstances he had to grow up with. He was a fatherless dark skinned, flat nosed and kinky haired boy born in rural Georgia and he worked his way up to the Supreme Court in the face of poverty, racism (both from whites and his own black people) and crippling poverty.

[waryaa]

1- Obama
2- Eric Holde - Current AttorneyGeneral (obama is very smart)
3- Oprah