New on TikTok: Every day, I give thanks for growing up in Jamaica when I did. Coming of age in the 70s, I didn’t have to go looking for knowledge about Marcus Garvey—it was in the air, the streets, and the music. It became a part of our identity. Our way of being in the world. "We absorbed the Garvey mindset through lived experience. It was in Burning Spear’s praise of Garvey as a prophet. In Culture’s warnings about the two seven clash. In Fred Locks’ dream of Seven Miles of Black Star Liners in Bob Marley's "So Much Things to Say" "Rastafari energized the language we lived in. They valued livity over property and gave us Ubuntu through I&I—teaching us we are connected. To each other. To our ancestors. To the land. To Jah." "We weren't just friends. We were sistren and brethren. Our elders were ma and fada It was a way of being—a way of knowing." "But this is not nostalgia. This is a Sankofa moment. If we did it before—if we carried Garvey’s mindset in our bones without even realizing it—we can do it again. But this time, we must do it intentionally." "Let's start today. Until next time—walk good." #MarcusGarvey #GarveyMindset #Motivation #Jamaica #PanAfrican

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