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You May Be Cool But, You’ll Never be MLK Jr influencing Famous peoples Career Path cool.

King convinced Nichelle Nichols (who incidentally later went on to work for NASA), to continue on playing the role of “Uhura” on Star Trek after the first season. Nichols said that he had told her at the time, not to leave the show simply because not only was she playing the role of a main character on TV, she also wasnt playing a character that conformed to the “black TV standards” in that day in time, instead she was actually a powerful character equal to those around her.

Then intern it had a larger effect; Whoopi Goldberg once announced that when she seen Uhura(Nichols) on TV, she said to her Mother: “Momma! There’s a black lady on TV, and she ain’t no maid!” She state that it was partially because of Nichols that she became such a huge StarTrek fan and later why she pushed so hard to get a character on StarTrek the Next Generation, despite the disbelief of the producer that shed actually to be on the show. Astronaut Ronald McNair, was inspired to become an astronaut because of the character of Uhura. He was the second black person in space who ended up being on of the people who passed away in the Challenger explosion. McNair’s brother stated, ____”Now, Star Trek showed the future where there were black folk and white folk working together. I just looked at it as science fiction, ’cause that wasn’t going to happen, really.’ But Ronald saw it as science possibility. He came up during a time when there was Neil Armstrong and all of those guys; so how was a colored boy from South Carolina – wearing glasses, never flew a plane – how was he gonna become an astronaut? But Ron was one who didn’t accept societal norms as being his norm, you know? That was for other people. And he got to be aboard his own Starship Enterprise.”____

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You'll never be Spock resting on his Riviera cool.

You May Be cool but, you'll never be Spock resting on his 1964 Buick Riviera cool.

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You may be cool but, You’ll never be Leonardo DiCaprio taking care of orphaned children Cool. One of the only Actors to never win an Oscar... But yet that does not detour him from being an amazing man. During the filming of the movie Blood Diamond, DiCaprio was working with 24 orphaned children from SOS Children's Villages. This organization is a third world foster care program, where they provide care for children who no longer have parents to support them. They also support many other children who are not in their “Foster Care” by providing health care, education for those who want it, and psycho-social support. Along with offering emergency relief programs. Not only does he help out and support third world children, he is big on Humanitarianism. From ocean health, to wild life preservation, DiCaprio has donated millions in the effort to better the world.

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You’‘ll never be Katherine Switzer running the Boston Marathon before women were allowed to cool

It’s easy to forget that until relatively recently — 1972 — women weren’t even allowed to officially run the Boston Marathon race, but... In 1967, a runner named Kathrine Switzer entered the all-male Boston Marathon under the name "K.V. Switzer," making her the first registered woman to run the race. Switzer was attacked during the race, despite the harassment, Switzer finished the race, and five years later women were finally allowed to run the Boston Marathon.

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You’ll never be Jimi Hendrix cruising around in his custom 1960s dune buggy cool

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You’ll never be Easy Company sitting on top of The Eagle's Nest drinking Hitler's private reserve cool

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You’ll never be Cordell Jackson, the Rockin’ Granny, cool.

Cordell Jackson (July 15, 1923 – October 14, 2004) was an American guitarist thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.