24
   Single
   Detroit, Michigan
   High School Basketball Coach
   Army/Camouflage Paints


Survivor Host: Hello and welcome to our weekly SURVIVOR AFRICA chat. This week we are excited to be chatting with Clarence Black!

On night 21, at yet another intense Tribal Council, Clarence Black, the 24-year-old high school basketball coach from Detroit, Michigan, was voted out of the newly merged Moto Maji tribe. Clarence, welcome and thanks for chatting with us today!

Clarence Black: Thank you for watching and supporting the show. I hope we're entertaining!

Lizfan: Clarence, lemme just say, big fan here. You final words said, "If some said I'd be here a year ago, I'd laugh." What urged you to try out?
Clarence Black: My cousin and I were big fans of another reality show, and we thought it would be a goof if we sent in applications. But unfortunately for the other reality show, we couldn't get the application in because we didn't have Adobe Acrobat. So it just so happens that we went with the application that was easily printable. I know that's not the best explanation, but honestly, we just thought it would be a goof.

SurvivorGirl: Clarence, what do you think was your biggest attribute to being on the show? Why do you think they didn't vote you off sooner because of the bean incident? Was it widely discussed that they were going to keep you up until the merge?
Clarence Black: I never heard the conversation. I know it was discussed in tribal circles that it would be silly to get rid of me because I'm big and strong and can only help in the challenges. My best attributes are that I'm really big and really strong. I'm a college graduate, so my academic credentials are second only to Kelly Goldsmith and Linda Spencer. I think they realized that at that point we were down two challenges already and they needed strength.

CatM: Do you regret giving up on the Immunity Challenge?
Clarence Black: I don't regret giving up the challenge because I didn't give up; I played the odds. I didn't feel I could win eight challenges in a row. I didn't think that was realistic.

GoatFarmer: What was the scariest incident for you while you were in Africa?
Clarence Black: Easily, when we were confronted with the cape buffalo, because during our training at base camp we were told that above and beyond all other things we had to be wary of, number one was the cape buffalo because it's just flat out mean. What you don't see on camera is actually how terrified we were and how terrified our production people were standing next to us.





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