Cynthia davis cooley high biography of donald

From as far back as he can remember, Eric Monte wanted to create some Black heroes.

Raised in the Cabrini-Green Homes in the middle of the last century, Monte became enamored with the cowboys of the silver screen. One day, at the age of 5, he was outside his building astride a makeshift hobbyhorse, and a white man asked, “Who are you supposed to be?” Monte reared back on his broomstick and said, “I’m the Lone Ranger!” “You can’t be the Lone Ranger,” the man replied.

“He’s white. Everything about him is white, including his horse.” The young Monte looked more closely at the other box-office buckaroos he admired — Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy — and realized that they too were white. In the era of Amos ‘n’ Andy, he could find on the screen no idols who looked like him.

He vowed then and there to one day make his own. 

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