Rip
dude was great
dude was great
RIP Yaphet Kotto
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Be Strong Blackman
All Star
Rip
datnigDASTARDLY
catching pigeons
I came in here thinking it was another one of them corny ass rappers I aint never heard of...
Now I feel bad, dude was always cool as fukk in movies
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RIP
Now I feel bad, dude was always cool as fukk in movies
. RIP
get these nets
Veteran
The line that has always stood out to meR.I.P.
I always think of the across 110th street song.
Across 110th Street
Woman trying to catch a trick on the street
Across 110th Street
You can find it all in the street
The family, who lives across town/
Would catch hell if the ghetto wasn't around/
Ghetto is the dumping ground/red light district for vice. Saw this as a kid when lilly white suburban people would drive into Newark to cop drugs.
Yaphet Kotto, Jewish actor who was first Black Bond villain, dies at 81
According to the ManishTana website, run by Orthodox rabbi Shais Rishon, Kotto’s father Avraham Kotto immigrated to the US in the 1920s as an observant Jew who could speak Hebrew. Kotto reportedly said in the past that his father’s ancestors were African Jews who originated in the area of modern Israel and migrated through Egypt to Cameroon. He also had said his mother, Gladys Marie, who was an officer in the army, converted to Judaism before marrying his father.
In a widely quoted interview, apparently with the Associated Press in 1994, Kotto described growing up in New York and the anti-Semitism he experienced as a religious Jew wearing a yarmulke headcover.
“It was rough coming up,” Kotto said. “And then going to shul, putting a yarmulke on, having to face people who were primarily Baptists in the Bronx meant that on Fridays, I was in some heavy fistfights.”
In a 2019 interview with the InsideHook website, Kotto talked about how Judaism was a guiding force in his life.
His father, who he said was a crown prince of Cameroon, “instilled Judaism in me.”
According to the ManishTana website, run by Orthodox rabbi Shais Rishon, Kotto’s father Avraham Kotto immigrated to the US in the 1920s as an observant Jew who could speak Hebrew. Kotto reportedly said in the past that his father’s ancestors were African Jews who originated in the area of modern Israel and migrated through Egypt to Cameroon. He also had said his mother, Gladys Marie, who was an officer in the army, converted to Judaism before marrying his father.
In a widely quoted interview, apparently with the Associated Press in 1994, Kotto described growing up in New York and the anti-Semitism he experienced as a religious Jew wearing a yarmulke headcover.
“It was rough coming up,” Kotto said. “And then going to shul, putting a yarmulke on, having to face people who were primarily Baptists in the Bronx meant that on Fridays, I was in some heavy fistfights.”
In a 2019 interview with the InsideHook website, Kotto talked about how Judaism was a guiding force in his life.
His father, who he said was a crown prince of Cameroon, “instilled Judaism in me.”
That line always sticks out in my head because he puts so much emphasis on that part.
“Woman trying to catch a trick on the street!!”
That’s my favorite part of the song.
philmonroe
Superstar
I remember dude on the A-Team. RIP to fam
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
He was cold in Truck Turner as Harvard Blue
YourMumsRoom
Black Excellence
Great actor. Features of the Original man (ironic, being a Jewish actor).
They should of let him play God over Morgan in Bruce/Evan Almighty.
They should of let him play God over Morgan in Bruce/Evan Almighty.
hell yeah
my man said "the lord himself couldn't look better..bytch i have money..cute...im handsome...now what the hell is on your mind!!1
"i have the dvd
...shyt is a classic to me
macadomusic
Superstar
I always remeber him in "The running man"
RIP
Take It In Blood
Banned
One of those actors EVERYONE knows but nobody knew his name