100 STRONG BMB

Born and raised in Boston of African American and Cape Verdian Decent. Father of seven. President and CEO of Heavy Weight Security and Carpe Diem Protective Services. Professional; host, doorman, bouncers and bodyguards. Recent founder of a new movement in Boston. 100 STRONG Black Men of Boston was birthed March 27th 2007 as a result of the violence in the community and the arrival of the Guardian Angels to the inner city.At a community meeting at Global Church Ministries Community Activist Jim Thompson interrupted the forum in which the founder of the Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa was posturing showboating and grandstanding at the pain of our community on what he was going to do in terms of the violence. Jim Thompson respectfully stopped and reminded him that 25 years ago when the Guardian Angels first arrived he was the young gang banger whose crew chased the Guardian Angels off the block never to return. (go check the archives news at 11:00 1985!)Now in 2007 the Angels are back and Jim Thompson is a father and concerned citizen and at that moment he posed the question and call to the community for 100 STRONG Black Men, because the Guardian Angels are not the solution nor the problem, the Men in this community need to stand up and take their rightful place. Since then the movement has grown by leaps and bounds. Weekly meeting are producing African American Male CEOs, clergy, judges, lawyers, probation officers, ex addicts, ex cons etc. However the prerequisite to every meeting is we check all titles and egos at the door and then and only then we just come together as sons fathers and brothers to begin the process of rebuilding and reclaiming our community....OUR hood.