Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr., the former Los Angeles Lakers point guard recently inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame, donated $100,000 to the Howard University School of Communications at the school's 30th anniversary gala.
Is Magic Johnson the best example of black excellence ever?
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He's one of the most influential black businessmen in America. He owns five Starbucks and has plans to open 10 more -- nearly all of them in black neighborhoods, including one in Crenshaw and one in Harlem. He's got four Magic Johnson Theaters in inner-city neighborhoods. He owns a TV and film production company, a talent-management company (Vivica A. Fox, Steve Harvey, Mase are clients) and a record label. He's part owner of four shopping centers, a restaurant and Founders Bank. He's got a foundation that since 1991 has given away $15 million, primarily to community-based organizations dealing with HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs. He's making truckloads of money in neighborhoods in which white businessmen are scared to pull to a stop, much less invest.
He hires black contractors to build businesses that he staffs with black employees, many of whom are working for the first time. When he built one multiplex, in Crenshaw, he hired 12 gangbangers to be part of the construction crew, and six of them stayed on in full-time jobs. He has gone into areas where there were mostly pawnshops and liquor stores, and put up gleaming palaces that have stayed as clean as they were the day they opened.
OHHH BUT MAGIC DON'T GIVE BACK...
He hires black contractors to build businesses that he staffs with black employees, many of whom are working for the first time. When he built one multiplex, in Crenshaw, he hired 12 gangbangers to be part of the construction crew, and six of them stayed on in full-time jobs. He has gone into areas where there were mostly pawnshops and liquor stores, and put up gleaming palaces that have stayed as clean as they were the day they opened.
OHHH BUT MAGIC DON'T GIVE BACK...
Magic is one of the greatest members of the GOAT franchise fraternal order, that alone makes him Black Excellence. 
He beat aids, he's worthy for discussion
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
never had aids tho
HIV, Aids whatever, either way
at some of the comments disregarding what he has done because of AIDS or that fairy of a son
When black people are together, there is nothing called #blackexcellence. Everybody wants to tear everybody down, regardless of what they have accomplished.
words are so powerful. If you hear "you aint shyt" for generations, then you actually live and embody those same words.
still love ma peoples, cause im one as well
He put them in black neighborhoods, giving black people jobs, and businesses in their neighborhoods. What do you want him to do, give nikkas money for nothing?
Mr. Somebody
Friend Of A Friend
Individuals of African descent dont like being called Blacks, friend.
Also owns movie theaters
A man who legit gave back and still gives back to the black community, across the nation, not just in one city like most these nikkas.
And yet so called "black" posters are dissin him cuz he has a gay son
And yet so called "black" posters are dissin him cuz he has a gay son