Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is a special edition up on game and it's where I put you up on game on something. It could be an app. It could be a YouTube channel. It can be a clip. It could be a song. It could be an album. It could be anything that I feel like I want to introduce to you and share with you because I always love it when people put me up on game. All right. So today

is a person and someone who you may not know. It's not someone who's talked a lot about in history

classes. And black history is not something that is, you know, we don't learn a ton about it. We

probably spend one month, you know, February learning about it. And he is one of the people who kind of slept on, I feel like. And it's funny because he actually

inspired many of the leaders who we do learn about, the Malcolm X's, even the Martin Luther

Kings, the Black Panthers, et cetera. So this is Marcus Garvey. All right. So Marcus Garvey's

from Jamaica. He was someone who promoted blacks taking responsibility for their own destiny.

All right.

So you had several different schools of thought around the time of the late 1800s, early 1900s.

And of course, during the Civil Rights Movement, when we know about Malcolm X versus MOK, right? It's like the two

different schools of thought. One was, let's integrate, let's see if we can work ourselves in and,

you know, get white people to accept us. Malcolm X was of the school of thought, like, listen,

let's depend on ourselves. Let's develop self-reliance. Marcus Garvey was going so far as to say, and this was before Malcolm X, let's go back to Africa.

Let's actually unite and go back to Africa and be kings and queens like we're supposed to be.

And so he started the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

He was very much a proponent of black nationalism, which again is all about uniting, pooling

resources together within the black community, much like a lot of other races do.

And he was totally against relying on others.

He was someone who believed we should depend on ourselves.

We should work together. And I happen to really, really agree with this. This is very much,

Marcus Garvey was very much a line in the jungle. So what I wanted to share with you is one of

my favorite clips from a speech that he did. And it's powerful. Sometimes I just put it on repeat.

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