Adele Ferguson: Smith family of Seattle- a solid model for success

WELL, Black History Month is almost over and I’ve been thinking about who to offer as a role model for young blacks, leaving Barack Hussein Obama Out of it because I know of somebody better.

I give you Sam and Marion Smith and the Smith kids of Seattle.

I knew Sam Smith when he was in the legislature in the House in the 1960s, which he left to become a Seattle city councilman in 1967 I learned all about him from his son, Ron, when we were airplane seatmates returning from the Democratic national convention in Atlanta.. He had gone to the convention to help his dad, who lost a leg to diabetes a...