Well said...RIP.
He said in an interview once that he wanted to become an actor after watching Sidney Poitier's films as a child. That also explains why he played characters with intelligent, likeable, avuncular demeanours. I hope he was proud to have been a positive African-American male role-model, just as Poitier was for his generation.
For some reason it never registered with me that it was Carl Weathers in that film. Yeah great though, so silly but great.He was great in Happy Gilmore