Today we’d like to introduce you to Markie Abbott
Hi Markie, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
Born in Dallas, I was put in Foster care at the start of birth. I was placed with a family forty miles outside of Dallas in a town called Venus, Texas. After a few short years my family adopted me. I was the child who did all the sports and many after club school activities throughout Pre-K to Grade 12.
A quick touch into my family base is I have a large family with truly wonderful parents. So, to go on, I was accepted into college on dual sports scholarships. My track career started at Freshman year and on. While, as my volleyball career began during my sophomore year, to the brinks of my third year. These scholarship rides to college were super high achievements for myself; with of course my parents very much appraised approval.
I, honestly did not have a typical college athletic career, barring most of my injuries only during highschool. I do remember the first time someone put my ability down. I wish I could say it didn’t come from an upper class-man, yet, it did. It was among my tidbits of a team of only 10 people. All sprinters, middle distance runners, very few jumpers. As for my positioning on the team, I was acquitted to being the only Woman’s High Jumper.
Initially, I was sitting on the benches receiving my first pair of high jump shoes. With those in the training room for recovery. They were in whisper conversation about me. The words that jostled me to perk my attention was “Can she even jump?” Knowing I was the only one constantly being badgered by them from my warms up, to my conditioning to my workouts with them, even my eating habits. They stayed consistent on the ” you’ll never be good because we say so.” Even though I kept up with them and our coach didn’t think I wasn’t good, ‘clearly. Personally, I oversaw their treatment as insulting not uplifting.
Going into the track meet that week was our first meet. So, the only thing on their side was collegiate meet day experience, I was still a Freshman. I put the thoughts in of what I wanted to accomplish and that was to qualify for nationals. Upon arrival to the track, I knew jumping against veteran woman taller than me was new too. I basically showed up only ready with how I had practiced.
I can’t remember all what happened that day. Plenty of errors that were being resolved by a great coach. Nonetheless,a personal PR along with a good spot for NAIA DI Nationals is what I accomplished with. From then on, not one sol’ person dated since that day, told me what I personally was doing wrong to them “in my event”. I took back the only thing that proved what people like that feel they can do to control the mind sets of others. That can really make or break you. My saying goes ” I can control what I can do, I can’t control others.”
I was a Business Major there, Management with a Concentration in Fashion Marketing. Since then that University…if fashion wasn’t the actual vein to my existence I’d given up and died without it a long time ago. Most of the fettered occurrences that transpired, were after my first transfer of schools. I went on twice transferring schools. Purely, events out of my control. As a nineteen year old, I had overly positive feedback about it to myself. That for the future I’d already learned from my first two years things happen in business.
Regardless I focused my only close to valued major at my third and final University transfer to be a Marketing major. Fully anticipating every work to fit the mold of a Fashion Marketer.
Jumping slightly before COVID-19 in 2020. It was the “timely” year for the fine grained builds to my career aspirations. Evidently, hardly with NYFW under my belt, while working towards my continuing journey out in Los Angeles. Everything was cut short because of the virus, I waited long and hard until the fashion world reset. Which, with the rest of the world it did in the beginning of 2021.
As I’ve stated on my social media since then to have made connecting occurrences to America’s “de-gression “,to date back almost 70 years. COVID ended and with it my freedom. I’ve endured a long alone fight with what at first couldn’t be seen but heard. Heard, yet physically life inflicting. I began to document as much as I could to share my truth to the matters that were there; detrimentally distorting facts, and the lives of Woman, and BLPOC.
In the midst of my beginnings, my intents to press forward with my career I travelled to Europe. I fought a strategic “winging-it” plan for Japan that later turned to Milan. Thankfully, I gained experience in my niches in fashion. Collectively a voice to be an activist once I got back to Texas. Since then that has been my entire journey for 2 years now (2022-2024). Something could be done to fight back. I began being something self-proclaimed. “Dead fast is not as easy as it comes.” I’ve proved my title as an activist, I stand for Human, Woman, Civil, equal, BLPOC rights.
I truly just crossed paths with a confused black woman. I told her to call me a knight or not. Her answer was “to not.”
Upon recent events only 7 days ago on October 10, 2024 I encountered my 8th police brutality event. I was not treated with equal or civil rights to the matter. So to anyone reading this now I am very happy this was accepted by what I’ve been asked to write. This was supposed to be turned in a few days even prior to also what I’ve been calling, ” a political hate crime attack against me.”
What do I do from here? The explanations are easy; mostly all I hope is deeply understandable of what I have already written. God has put me on this Earth for a reason. It’s truly apparent now, I’m finishing this written piece on a park bench from my nap. Moves that are made upon a chess board have been made on several sides. Not all has been explained though, I am patient, I do stand for justice and I will use all that I have grown to be to put up a good fight to bring peace in the world.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
As much as I definitely inputted LOL.The road has never been smooth for me.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I’m proud to be known for my love of fashion that has aided in acts for Activism.
I haven’t let societies new ways conform me. I’m fighting everyday for rights and freedoms.
I’m proud to live to know these things and that I won’t have any long term life regrets.
Have you learned any interesting or important lessons due to the Covid-19 Crisis?
Oh most definitely, outside from what I’ve mentioned. We must all learn to continue to be ourselves.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markie.abbott/
