Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is another episode of books and bars where I break down excerpts from my favorite books or books that I'm exploring. And of course, bars from my favorite rap songs or songs that I just listen to. Some of them are not my favorites. But when they drop a bar, I got to share it with you. So this is from a book, and this book was written by Booker T. Washington.

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So if you don't know who Booker T. Washington is, he founded Tuskegee University in Alabama.

He is a former slave.

So he was actually a slave.

He was born into slavery.

And then the emancipation proclamation happened. He was released from slavery.

And he was one of the many black slaves who were literally, imagine enslaving an animal

and then just releasing the animal to the wild and saying, figure it out, right? And that's

what was done to black people who were

obviously taken from Africa, brought here to the United States, made to work for nothing.

And then once they were, quote unquote, free, it was like, yo, figure it out.

Not only that, there was tons of infrastructural realities that made it difficult and almost impossible at times for blacks to advance themselves.

So what he did was he ended up creating Tuskee University.

His story's incredible.

You have to read

his book. They need to have a movie on him, definitely. But his book is caught up from slavery. So

I won't get too much into the politics and things like that. But Booker T. Washington,

especially in the black community, is he's actually pretty controversial. So and the reason why is because

there's almost these two schools of thought. Now just like anything, people make it way too black and

white, just like, you know, conservatives and, you know, liberals, Democrats, Republicans. There's

obviously a balance there. However, people getting the idea of just, you know,

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