Have y'all ever heard about the Wichita Monrovians. Well, on today's episode, if I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. Let me take you back to nineteen twenty five. Picture this an all black baseball team taking on the KKK in Kansas. I'm talking about a real game, bats balls, bigotry, all on the same field. Sit back so I can share the most gangster sports story you'd never heard in your life. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
didn't know. Now, the Monrovians, not the Moravians. The Moravians are members of the Moravian Church. The Monrovians refers to the baseball team named after Monrovia, Liberia. They were the Wichita Monrovians, and it was a Negro league baseball team in the nineteen twenties, and they used to put belt to ass. But let me say the scene. It's June, it's hottest fish grease hundred and two degrees in the shade, and these brothers roll up to play against the ku
Klux Klan's own baseball team. Now, first of all, I ain't even know the KKK had a baseball team. You mean to tell me these foods got time to hate and learn how to bunch. How you multitasking your racism and get this. Both teams agreed to bring in two Irish Catholic umpires, but Catholics was on the Klans hit list too, So basically everybody on that field knew they were playing for more than just runs. This was about
proving something. It was black excellence versus white supremacy, and y'all know, damn well, excellence always got a better bat and average. So both the game starts and that's a straight up dog fight, great pitching back and forth. But then the Monrovians got hot. They came through with them clutch hits, slid in the bases like they was dodging Jim Crow loss. By the end, Monrovians win ten to eight.
They didn't just beat the Klan, they in bare. Can you imagine a post game plan meeting, now, brother, Jebidah, you said you could pinch. You had them colors out there smacking balls laughing, right, Jebidah, we might have to take your white card. Jebidaih. Now you might think, what's the big deal, just a baseball game, but Nah, this was deeper than that. This is nineteen twenty five. It
wasn't just about sports. This was about black folks standing tall, staring oppression right in the face and saying, we'll beat you at your own game. And they did. Now, fast forward to today, what's the lesson. We still swinging, y'all. Every time we excel in places that they said we couldn't. We're still channeling that Monrovian spirit. So the next time someone tries to play you, just remember, if the Monrovians can beat the Klan in nineteen twenty five, you can
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