BLACK MAN'S PERSPECTIVE: What’s Your Legacy?

An episode of the The Urban Breakdown podcast, hosted by The Urban Breakdown, titled "BLACK MAN'S PERSPECTIVE: What’s Your Legacy?" was published on January 20, 2018 and runs 36 minutes.

January 20, 2018 ·36m · The Urban Breakdown

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Summary

I believe a legacy can brighten the future. Legacy is defined in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as “something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor from the past.” We commonly hear about legacies “living on” today when they continue to affect those in the present. Given these terms, a legacy is not something that we have complete control over. After all, we cannot control how other people perceive us, we can only control our own actions. So how can we leave the world with a legacy of our choosing? What we must do is inspire through our own actions. If you go back through time and analyze the most influential legacies, you’ll see that they all inspired action through their own action. They didn’t just think about doing things, or tell others to do them; they went out and got things done on their own! These legacies began while they were still alive, except I’m sure they weren’t thinking about them in those terms. The

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I believe a legacy can brighten the future. Legacy is defined in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as “something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor from the past.” We commonly hear about legacies “living on” today when they continue to affect those in the present. Given these terms, a legacy is not something that we have complete control over. After all, we cannot control how other people perceive us, we can only control our own actions. So how can we leave the world with a legacy of our choosing? What we must do is inspire through our own actions. If you go back through time and analyze the most influential legacies, you’ll see that they all inspired action through their own action. They didn’t just think about doing things, or tell others to do them; they went out and got things done on their own! These legacies began while they were still alive, except I’m sure they weren’t thinking about them in those terms. The

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