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Speaker 1: What Black History Month was meant to correct. I welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Know it alls to another episode of the most anticipated

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially in February,

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Speaker 1: entitled I didn't Know Maybe you didn't either. I'm your

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Speaker 1: host B Dott and for the final seven episodes of

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Speaker 1: Black History Month, we reopening some case files.

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Speaker 2: That's right, let's.

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Speaker 1: Start here, because Black History Month didn't happen because America

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Speaker 1: suddenly got curious. I told you at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the season. It happened because the story was being told wrong.

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Speaker 1: Much like in twenty twenty six, one hundred years ago.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen twenty six, Carter G. Woodson looked at America's

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Speaker 1: textbooks and realized something very dangerous black folks was either

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Speaker 1: invisible or only being mentioned when something went wrong. So

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Speaker 1: he opened up a case file on history itself. And

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Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do. For these last seven episodes,

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Speaker 1: we reopening them. And what I have for you to

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Speaker 1: kick off the episode are three of the most useless

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Speaker 1: facts you'll never need, not a day in life about

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Speaker 1: Black History Month.

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Speaker 2: Up.

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Speaker 1: First, of course, you know, Black History Months started as

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Speaker 1: Negro History Week one hundred years ago this year, but

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Speaker 1: It wasn't to celebrate, it was to correct.

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Speaker 2: Your second useless facts, Carter G.

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Speaker 1: Woodson believed that a black history was not taught accurately,

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Speaker 1: racism would always feel logical to the people that benefited

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Speaker 1: from it most. He literally said that he wrote it down,

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Speaker 1: we got receipts. And your third useless fact is he

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Speaker 1: never wanted a special month forever.

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Speaker 2: Carter G.

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Speaker 1: Woodson wanted the truth taught everywhere every day. And now

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Speaker 1: that I've given you those three useless facts, I asked,

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Speaker 1: do you know what was needed?

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Speaker 2: Because I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know, didn't know, I didn't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: here's the uncomfortable truth. A lot of American history isn't missing.

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Speaker 1: Information is missing honesty. Slavery gets softened, reconstruction gets rushed,

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Speaker 1: resistance gets labeled as riots. Success gets detached from black

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Speaker 1: people and handed to the system that wasn't accidental. Look

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Speaker 1: after slavery ended, the biggest threat wasn't black poverty.

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Speaker 2: It was black progress.

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Speaker 1: Black people voting, black people holding office, black people owning land,

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Speaker 1: building schools, creating wealth.

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Speaker 2: So the story had to change.

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Speaker 1: If you rewrite the past, you can control the future,

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Speaker 1: and that's why myths were created. The silber Waw wasn't

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Speaker 1: about slavery or reconstruction filled because black people weren't ready.

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Speaker 2: How about integration fixed everything? Or this is the most

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Speaker 2: damning one. Why you're bringing up hundreds of years ago.

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Speaker 2: We're past all that now.

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Speaker 1: Each one of those phrases removed. Whose responsibility? Each one

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Speaker 1: makes inequality sound natural, Each one avoids saying.

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Speaker 2: You know, we did this on purpose, And Carter G.

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Speaker 1: Woodson saw it happening one hundred years ago in real time.

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Speaker 1: Cardgi Woods has said, if a people are thought they

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Speaker 1: have no history, they'll accept whatever position they're given.

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Speaker 2: So Black History Month wasn't about pride.

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Speaker 1: It was about defense, defense against the laws, defense against erasure,

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Speaker 1: defense against a future built on edited facts. And here

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Speaker 1: we are, one hundred years later, in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: still arget over what gets taught, who gets centered? And

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Speaker 1: while the truth makes people uncomfortable, that tells you everything

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Speaker 1: you need to know. The resistance to Black history ain't

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Speaker 1: about the past, It's about the power in the present.

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Speaker 2: Carter G. Woodson didn't create a month, He created a warning.

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Speaker 1: If you don't correct the story, the lie becomes the

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Speaker 1: tradition look. Black History Month exists because the record was

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Speaker 1: never set straight. And this final week and about adding

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Speaker 1: new facts, it's about fixing the ones that we were

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Speaker 1: already given and I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I m