Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. Today is Books and Bars.

I really, really enjoy doing these episodes. I enjoy doing all episodes, but I especially enjoy

sharing excerpts from books that I love to read and bars from my favorite rap, music, lyrics,

etc. So as to highlight the mindset, music, lyrics, etc.

So as to highlight the mindset, the philosophy behind,

not just the books, but also the bars and hip-hop.

So today is from a book, and it is a book about someone whom I really admire,

not because I agree with everything that he says, but I agree with what he stood for.

And I really love his approach to what he believed in.

And this is someone by the name of Malcolm X.

Malcolm X was a revolutionary.

Malcolm X was a minister in the nation of Islam.

Malcolm X was also someone who was assassinated in 1965.

And there's a lot of controversy surrounding his assassination. But he was someone who is

controversial to say the least, but someone who stood for or had the same endgame as a

Martin Luther King and others in terms of wanting equality

and justice for blacks, he just had a totally different way of going about it. And he was also

someone who was not afraid to be wrong or to reinvent himself, which is something really

fascinated about Malcolm X. He went through several transformations in his life. He used to be

a criminal and then was reformed while in prison to become a member of the nation of Islam and

totally transformed his life and became dedicated to spreading the nation of Islam's message

along with black nationalism, which was basically the idea that black should

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