Lee Evans Has Something to Say to Oprah

I know I'm not famous like Magic Johnson and have never had even a small fraction of his money on his poorest day since becoming a Laker, and therefore in the eyes of the world his accomplishments are worth much more than mine, and everyone listens to him and looks up to him. Just like Oprah. Rich is always good. Famous isn't. I was really famous for a while when Oprah was a teenager. She may even have seen my world record performances both on and off the track. Maybe she has forgotten what "Black and Proud" meant, because the way she goes on apologizing for African Americans and AIDS is enough to make me sick.

But both Oprah and Magic are really powerful people. They have more money than Fort Knox and they can say anything they want, anytime and any place. So why don't they speak up about AIDS? They could at least stop pretending that there is no controversy, or that all folks who say that HIV is NOT the cause of AIDS are whack.

I found out that while I was away with my team in Little Rock participating in the Sunbelt Conference Cross Country championships (which we won), there was a fair amount of activity on the special online bulletin board, and that the comments from "denialists" out numbered the "believers" 37 to 20 before air time, and were a lot better written. One of my friends copied some of the more interesting ones before the bulletin board disappeared from Oprah's site yesterday. [Read them here]

So now that I've gotten your attention Ms. Winfrey, how about having me and Prof. Duesberg on your famous show?

You have shilled for AIDS, Inc. about 100 times over the years, and I don't think you have ever given 5 minutes to discussing the fact that a lot of very smart people, with no vested interests, have been questioning this thing since the beginning. You made a lot of noise with backing down on that bogus book you gave your name to. Nobody thought the worse of you for having been fooled. You have been fooled by AIDS, Inc. too, and it really is not so embarrassing considering all the very rich and powerful people who also have been fooled (or are major shareholders doing the fooling), and who are your friends, and tell you all the inside dirt about everything. Have any told you privately what is really up with AIDS?

So how about it, O? And if you do have the integrity and bravery to take me up on my offer, no balancing Fauci allowed. I don't remember the last time anyone felt that a representative of AIDS, Inc. needed to have his "propaganda" balanced by the other side. America is waking up to this shell game, Oprah.

As a coach with a lot of accomplishments, I have some final advice. Change teams.

I look forward to the call from one of your producers. My number can be found easily through the University of South Alabama directory.

Peace & Love

Lee Evans

A new biography, by noted sport's writer Frank Murphy,  The Last Protest: Lee Evans in Mexico City, contains the only account of that unforgettable olympics Lee vouches for as accurate. Mr. Evans is currently the head track and field coach at The Univesity of South Alabama in Mobile, and one of his recruits, Vincent Rono (from Kenya) captured the gold in the men's 1500 m. final of the NCAA games held in Sacramento in June. Almost nobody knew this because the TV commenters thought the real story was in interviewing the second place finisher from Florida.  Even though he lost, his team (the favorite) still took first, and the TV people wanted to make sure he did not feel really badly about being beaten by some African from a no name university who was coached by the still unmentionable Lee Evans, who told Avery Brundidge and the entire racist Olympic establishment where to shove it 40 years ago. And since he never recanted, he has never been forgiven. I don't have to say how many national medals the UofSouthA won before his arrival four short years ago, but it would be the same as the number of AIDS patients cured in more than 25. (Otis)

NOTE: If you would like to see Lee Evans and Peter Duesberg discuss AIDS, and maybe a few other things, with Ms. Winfrey, an email to the big O, with a copy to the little one here, might get her further attention, so to speak.

Comments

[Otis]

I have received numerous requests over the past 24 hours to please open the comments to Mr. Evan's remarks to Ms. Winfrey, and after consultation to find out if he would make time to reply to a few questions, and receiving a gracious "I'll do my best", decided to do so.

[Ron Freeman]

Hey Lee,

I am in Guinea now, and your great post at YBYL just caught up with me.

This has to make something happen!

I have a celeb list that I will work when I get back to the States.

Peace,

Ron Freeman, M.A

[Lee Evans]

I thought this was funny.

In my emails today, there was one with "Oprah's Show" in the subject line, and when I opened it, I found that apparently all the efforts of the past days have resulted in my email getting added to a mass mailing list belonging to one of the O's many commercial empires.

Here is it, without the "you can click here" activated, because that would be free advertising for the duplicitous .... Ms. Winfrey, and any body with her money should pay premium for everything don't you think?

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[Brother from Brooklyn]

Brother Lee and Brother Ron,

It has been a long road since the 60s and it is a welcome sight for these sore eyes to find your names in the news again -- even if it is only the internet.

I am telling all my friends about what you brothers are up to since someone sent me the direction to this way sick site.

I remember NEWARK...DO YOU OPRAH ?

And I remember when "Power to the People" was a phrase that put a chill in the hearts of the establishment, and not a another Hollywood cliche they took to the bank.

[Amiri Baraka]

Sock it too her but good Brother Evans, the mightiest burner I ever saw tear up a track.

And I remember Newark like it was YESTERDAY.

[Codaryl "Cody" Moffett]

Lee,

I've been waiting my whole life for you to step up again.

I know that my father is looking down now with a bigger smile then when he played with Ornette at the "Both/And" club in the Fillmore in 1968 after you and Tommie Smith and John Carlos showed the world what Black Power really was about. And man was he grinning then.

I was only 8 years old, but I will never forget how everybody in Oakland was talking about you.

Thanks for making a dream come true.

Cody

P.S. Oprah, Word Up -- I will perform with Charles Jr., Charnett and Mondre for FREE the day Mr. Evans and Prof. Duesberg are on your show, and maybe some other players will join us. It could be BIG fun.

[Lee Evans]

Ms. Winfrey,

The next time somebody says the words 'Africa and AIDS' to you, please remember this continuing sad story of my African athletes in Mobile, and the next time someone says to you Peter Duesberg is a 'quack has been', please at least try and read this.

Thanks,

Peace and Love

Lee

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4/14/2007 3:25 PM

MOBILE, Ala. - Vincent Rono, NCAA champion at 1500m, ran the first ever sub 4-minute mile in the state of Alabama at the USA Invitational, Saturday, clocking in at 3:59.63 in blustery conditions..

The University of South Alabama senior posted the fourth-fastest time run in the world this year, third-best time run in the United States, and is the second-fastest collegian at the full mile distance behind Josh McDougal of Liberty, whose 3:57.46 in Lynchburg, Va., on March 31 tops the world list.

Rono just missed dipping under track and field's magical mile barrier last year at this meet, clocking 4:00.60 on a windy day last April. "I thought that maybe the wind might be too much," Rono said, "But we wanted to do it so bad because we came so close last year, and the today the pace was good enough to do it."

The pacemakers went through the first lap in 58.01, setting the stage for Rono to begin his push. Through two laps, the clock read 1:57 as the winds at Jaguar Track began to swirl, particularly on the backstretch. With one lap to go, the time was 3:00 and Rono had broken clear of the field that included nine-time Sun Belt Conference champion Tonny Okello and 3000m SBC indoor titlist Micah Tirop, both Jaguar athletes. Rono drove through the heavy winds and ran all the way through the line for his final time.

Okello, second as he was last year in this event, finished in 4:14.32, while the first-year Jag, Tirop, took third in 4:18.09.

The meet was shortened to due the inclement weather, but another of South Alabama's NCAA finalists got in a spectacular race in world-leading time.

Four-time SBC champion Ajoke Odumosu, ran the 400m in the fastest-time in the world this year, clocking 50.46. Her time betters that of South Carolina's Natasha Hastings, a 50.55 performance run in Columbia, S.C., on March 31.

Clarisse Moh was third, behind Odumosu, in a personal best 52.58.

The Jags travel to Auburn, Ala., for the Auburn Invitational, April 22.