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He made skateboarding cool for a large demographic of kids who maybe wouldn’t have gotten into it otherwise. He was skilled and popular enough that his name/image sold product, thus he was turned pro.
Yeah it was nice to see him come up during a time where people still considered skateboarding a "white boy thing" I was never a fan but the representation was nice.. Shit like this just makes us all look bad but like I said he's throwed off.
There were a ton of great black skaters on the scene before Terry. Early Girl/Chocolate had Sheffy, Jeron, Jovantae, Keenen, and Shamil. Then there's Kareem, Shiloh, Sal, Clyde, Marcus, Lavar etc. Now, the rail chomper era was pretty white.