By his own admission, in characteristically colourful terms, Ray Lewis was “not Jesus Christ”. Neither — as he put it back in 2008 — was he a bad man, and those of us who had the privilege of working closely with him are devastated that he has left us too suddenly.
He had a huge heart, an inimitable gift of expression and and unbreakable zeal for helping young black men on the toughest fringes of society.
