January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

give Mike Tyson a sense of appreciation or an understanding of the virtual of
loyalty. When the Black Muslims wanted Ali to drop Dundee because he was white
-- Ali said no. |
|2/13/04 03:14:27 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|All true,
but a more accessible and less sullen Tyson would have played better to fans,
the media and possibly corporate endorsements. Of course, social grace lessons
probably wouldn't have kept him out of jail---for the rape conviction or for
assaulting a motorist who was involved in an accident with him. Psychiatric
drugs maybe, but social lessons, no.|
|2/13/04 04:56:04
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Angelo -In
the movie, "North Dallas Forty," Nick Nolte clumsily tries to pick up Dayle
Haddon, is shot down, and asks for a second chance, commenting that, "I got all
my social graces from football coaches." Thomas Hearns wisely realized that
being thrust into the mainstream media storm, after a life in the ghetto and the
Kronk gym might leave something of a communication gap that could be to his
disadvantage. What you say is very true. Executives, political candidates, and
others in the public eye, whose regard will be affected by how they come across,
regularly avail themselves of services that will allow them to more positively
present themselves, since publicly viewed people are judged on very brief, and
often shallow images.Tyson's milieu is a bit more difficult. His life
and ~his~ responses to it has likely set up a vicious cycle/circle of bad
choices begatting more of the same, with a resultant helplessness with any idea
of ways to break out of them.|
|2/13/04 05:35:14 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Very honestly speaking, I' d never
trust Mike Tyson ! I' d never trust to stay alone in the same room with him. If
I said something he doesn' t like I don't know how he could react. How many of
you would trust ? There are/were many fighters who are/were clearly good guys:
Evander Holyfield, Primo Carnera, Lennox Lewis, Erminio Spalla, Joe Frazier,
Francesco Damiani, Muhammed Ali', Nino Benvenuti etc. etc., but for Mike Tyson I
really don't know. I haven' t still understood if he is good or bad . To rape a
girl it means being a monster. Nobody knows if he really did that to Desiree
Washington in 1991. Nobody but Mike and Desiree.|
|2/13/04 06:52:57 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I have no
illusions that Tyson is just a person who has been misunderstood as he has done
some bad things in his life. While denying that he raped the girl he was
convicted of raping, he says he has done other bad things he was never caught
and punished for, so he understood that he deserved to be in jail.What
are some of the things he did but wasn't punished for? Did he rape others or
did he murder someone? Only he knows this.It is ironic that people from
higher classes continue to get training and education, such has corporate
executives in the public eye would get public speaking training while when
someone like Hearns gets the same type of training which he needed, people are
surprised. The same hold true for education because if someone from the
working class, for example, continues to goes to school, even if this person is
working a job (but maybe not the best job), this person can be labled a
"professional student," which is a derogatory term because he or she is never
seen as leaving the safety of school to take their place in the "real world."
While someone from the upper classes never leaves school, so to speak, and this
person gets a different, more postive label of university professor. The
professor is allowed to study his or her whole life and it is not looked down
upon even though he or she has never worked in the so called, "real world."|
|2/13/04 10:17:41
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Massimo -I
wouldn't trust Mike Tyson's mental stability either, in many situations. I'm not
sure that he has low impulse control; that implies that there are baffles
~there~ (that may be easily scaled). I think he pretty much operates in "lights