Salt in His Shoes - Michael Jordan

Sometimes I dream ,That he is me, You've got to see that's how I dream to be, I dream I move, I dream I groove, Like Mike, If I could Be Like Mike, Like Mike, Oh, if I could Be Like Mike, Be Like Mike, Be Like Mike. Again I try, Just need to fly, For just one day if I could, Be that way, I dream I move, I dream I groove Like Mike, If I could Be Like Mike, I wanna be, I wanna be, Like Mike, Oh, if I could Be Like Mike

If you lived during the 90’s, you heard those lyrics a time or two or a hundred! I heard it every morning on the way to school. The station we’d listen to had a radio host whose first name Mike, and he used that song as his intro. When I heard it, I only thought of one thing, and that was being able to fly like Michael Jordan!He was my hero and that for many other kids my age. If you were a kid and you liked basketball, it didn’t matter what color you were, you wanted to be like Mike. That was the first time I personally witnessed an African American man have that kind of star power.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Even though race tensions were high sometime in the 90s, No matter what was going on in society, when you watched him play, you forgot about all those things. It was a beautiful thing seeing him bring people together from all walks of life, through the game of basketball. In my earlier post about Willie Mays, I talked about how important it was for that generation to pave a path for the ones after them. It was just as important for the ones after him, like Michael, to go down the path and make the ones before him proud. Michael did that by the way he carried himself on and off the court and becoming one of the most known athletes of all-time. I aspire to bring people together, like Michael, but in my own way. Thank you for inspiring me, MJ.