WEBVTT - 012823 Florida Says Black History Lacks Educational Value (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:00.920 And now. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:05.040 Moving my mic back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.000 You're like that. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.879 You can strikes with waters from headquarters behind him and 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:12.640 the line. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:14.960 If you're just tuned it in the civic exich for 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.919 I'm your host, Ramsay's job, Rams' job, I am q ward. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.080 You guys are listening to CIVI excited. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.160 Does indeed stick around? We still got a lot more 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:27.640 show in stow for you. We're gonna be talking about 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.800 the U Order Department of Education be ashamed of them, 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.720 So we're gonna be talking about that they in short, 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:45.280 I don't think that, uh, the education of African American 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:50.080 studies has any educational value, and so we're gonna break 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.199 that down. And we're also going to be spending some 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.680 time talking about a gentleman by the name of Bo 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.640 Diddley for our way Black history fact. For those of 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.640 you who are are fans of rock and roll music 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.880 or blues or any of that sort of stuff, we're 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.080 going to show you the black origins of certainly rock 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:13.720 and roll. I'm sure that you can actually tell about 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.120 the blues. 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This 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:46.120 article comes from binnews dot com and before we get 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:52.480 into it, what are your early thoughts or what were 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.240 your early thoughts when you first heard about this and 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.560 the why. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.520 You and I have discussed the very very rapid and 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:06.120 dramatic temperature change in overt racism post the election of 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:11.320 our former president, and I saw hundreds of thousands, millions 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:17.320 of black people arguing for overt racism's place in today's culture, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:22.120 in today's ecosystem, as something they preferred. I like it 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.960 for our racist to wear it on their chests and 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.200 say it with their chests and let us know how 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.440 they really feel. And I've always pushed back on that 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:35.440 right because the actual outcomes matter more than the performative part. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:36.440 Right. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.400 So if being ashamed of being racist means you treat 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.679 my children nicer just so people will think you're not racist, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.360 then I prefer that I don't need to know your 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.280 true colors. If the world I live in is better 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.360 because you're faking it, I don't live with you. I'm 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:55.640 not in your home, so you're allowed to keep those private, dangerous, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:01.039 bigoted thoughts to yourself with everyone now wearing it more 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.280 on their chest. I think I spoke to you off 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.480 air about the idea that there are a lot of 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.480 people who part of their not just social identity, but 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:18.400 professional identity, is that they're decent. So to protect their pocketbooks, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.640 they got to pretend to be decent people, or at 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.760 least they used to, because something like this would have 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.840 never been something that we even considered having to cover 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.479 in news, because those people would have understood how flagrantly 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.840 and overtly racist it would be to say what they said, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.880 to say what they said, and to have something like 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.960 this make the news, they be too embarrassed. Nobody's embarrassed anymore. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:46.320 They're standing on it. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:53.359 They're standing again and stand to lose nothing because their 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.239 supporters now feel more inclined and more emboldened to support 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.880 these types loud views and express these types views out loud. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:09.560 This governor in a state that is extremely diverse can 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:16.400 come out and with a straight face tell people that 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:21.440 there is no scholastic or educational value in African American study, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.440 that's the most hurtful thing, and have a whole governing 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.920 body stand behind in him and support it. And I'd 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.680 be willing to bet that there were minorities involved in 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:35.440 this decision. I'd be willing to bet that blindly, you know, I. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:40.960 If I were to accept that, it would be very 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.520 easy because, as we've seen in the first part, of 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.640 the show when we were talking about the five officers 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.200 that ended the life of I think his name is 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:53.480 Tyree Nichols. They were all black. All five of those 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:59.880 officers ended that black child's life. Six black people involved. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.960 So absolutely I could totally see this board, you know, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:12.560 parroting these what we believe to be white supremacist sentiments 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:21.560 and really espousing these ideals. And again, I think that 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.480 the thing that's so hurtful about this is that they 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:31.160 say it has no educational value. That part is really hurtful. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.400 So again I mentioned that I had a conversation, a 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:38.120 very meaningful conversation earlier in the week with a person 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:46.240 that I feel deserves way more of a stage than 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.560 he already has, and he's got a huge stage, Anthony Browner. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.520 Once upon a time at our old station where we 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.760 Q and I used to work, I'd go into the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.840 the program director's office. I was a music director, So 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.040 I'd go in the office at the end of the 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.400 day and I would program the logs for the next day. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.600 I was a music director, meaning that I basically scheduled 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.240 the order in which the songs played. Surprise supplies. You know, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.360 they don't take your requests oh, I shouldn't say that anyway. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.360 Some Yeah, sometimes sometimes you can get a request in, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.000 but for the most part, it's predetermined anyway. So I 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:27.480 would go in there and I'd spend some time, put 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.040 a lot of thought into this, and it would take 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.120 some time, and I would listen to these lectures. I 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:38.199 would listen to these people, these great thinkers, these really 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:44.200 educated folks, Anthony Browner being one of them. And I 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:49.880 realized that I was either not educated or miseducated. I 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:54.679 was given an alternative version of reality. In fact, I 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.520 still know things that aren't entirely true. And I learned 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.160 that in my conversation recently with it. And so I 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:08.240 personally began to appreciate the value of a full education, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.800 an education that included African history as human history, as 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.040 world history, an education that included African American history as 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.920 American history. Right, because it's it's crazy. How do you 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:27.600 tell the story of the United States. Well, we were 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.720 being oppressed by you know, the King of England. You know, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.840 they were taxing us and not we didn't have any representation, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.880 and then we did the Boston Tea Party, and then 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.640 you know the the you know, you know the story you. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.520 Know, lack of religious freedom, et cetera. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.160 Yeah, and this is you know, a lot of a 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.000 lot of things go into this. So basically, we're trying 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.959 as a country, or as we started off as a 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:59.559 series of colonies, but we were trying to gain our independence, right, U, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:05.000 gain some autonomy, be self determined. And you know, this 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:11.439 fighting spirit is indeed written into the story of this country, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.880 right but when you break it down a little further, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:19.720 for black people, that wasn't true. And we're still trying 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.160 to make it true day and day after day, year 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.520 after year, decade after decade. We're still inching forward. Would 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.920 love to feel as free as that rich white man 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.920 that we always talk about seems to be. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:39.600 It is. You couldn't see it. But as you were 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.920 saying that, I just got chills. And the reason why, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.199 as I've been trying to figure out how to say 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.760 something for as long as we've been doing this show, 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.000 and really for as long as I've been having these thoughts, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.960 and I think you just helped me get there. I 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.880 do not think there is a more determined people to 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.960 be a part of this country's history and what it celebrates. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:07.640 In black people, we really, really, really really really are 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:14.680 proud Americans, like insanely so, considering our history with this 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.520 country and everything that stands for and everything that it 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.360 was built on. But we are the single most determined people, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.719 I think, in the history of the world to subscribe 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:30.520 to the teachings and beliefs of a country that has essentially, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.800 for most of its history not just undervalued and underappreciated us, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:44.120 but abused us. And we somehow still really, really, really 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.280 want to be proud Americans. We do not want to 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.520 seek our revenge, We do not want to overthrow the place. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.520 We just want to like all those words that you 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.679 guys didn't mean about us when you were writing Constitution, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.320 when you were writing the villain Rights, when you were 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.200 writing the Pledge of Allegiance, when you were writing all 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.160 these beautiful things that we sing and memorize and recite. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.840 Even though we now realize you were not talking about us, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.200 we still hope one day we're going to wake up 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.000 and you guys are gonna be like, Okay, you guys too, Yeah, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.400 that's it, that's it. Yeah, that's funny that you said that. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.560 That is a really that's a pretty low bar. It's 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:34.320 both awesome and so crushingly different. Yeah, and I didn't 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.480 mean to cut you off. I'm saying that. I'm just like. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.960 Wow, man, like well, I think that that that makes 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:44.040 the point, because you know, their worry has historically been 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:48.000 with the whole conversation about CRT or really American history 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.400 and whether or not that should be taught in classrooms there. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.320 Their whole conversation has been about it, let's be honest, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.920 centering the feelings of white children and the expense of 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.240 everyone else, of white children's parents. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.760 Ooh, that way they say, it's about the children, It's 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.839 about their parents who have to answer those questions and 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.800 speak to those feelings that their intelligent children will have 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.280 when they hear those stories. Sure, they're not going to 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.120 assume culpability and feel guilty themselves. They're gonna feel hurt, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.040 They're gonna want questions to answer it. They're gonna feel empathy, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.040 and they're gonna have to teach that out of them, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.520 and they don't want that. I think the word they 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.000 use is indoctrinated. They think that these teachers will doctrinate 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.360 their their children to want to rise up and be 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.160 good people. Yes, but that's not the words of activist 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.679 good people. They don't want their children to become activist rooms. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:51.199 That's funny. Well, I think that, uh, you know again 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.200 that that kind of proves the point. And you know, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:14:05.480 if you educate people, young people, especially about African American history, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:10.680 black history in this country, and indeed African history by itself, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.440 and you teach it all the way thoroughly up to 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.480 present day, then what you're teaching the students is, well, 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:26.920 these black people, these African and African American people, have 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:28.840 an incredible resolve. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.080 They're very diligent. They have been through a lot and 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:39.640 have not organized to rise up, you know, in mass 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:47.520 you know, and if that were something that were to happen, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.560 nobody could really blame them. And yet that's not what 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:56.520 they want. They're just simply seeking to be counted. They're 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.640 seeking to have a fair go of things. Why is 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.680 my neighbor's house three hundred thousand dollars more than mine 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.160 and it's the same house. I'm black and I live 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.600 here and my neighbor's not black, And if I change 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.040 the family portrait in my house, then all of a sudden, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.600 the value of my house goes up three hundred thousand dollars. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.120 Why is it the black real estate agents make less. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.160 And we're just talking about one tiny, teeny tiny facet. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.960 Why is black wealth? Why we're talking about education outcomes? 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.280 Why is education? You know what I mean? And you can't, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.840 And it's there's so many people that will just accept 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.160 the way the world is because A it doesn't affect them, 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.480 or B they don't know any better. But you know, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.800 I think that a comforting thought for folks is well, 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.640 that's just how it is. You know, some people are 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.880 better at this, some people are better at that. And 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.080 that's a falsehood because what I often do is compare 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:55.080 black outcomes across the Atlantic. So are the outcomes for 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.440 African Americans the same as the outcomes for Africans? And 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.400 if so, they you know, Okay, your point is well made, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.080 But often enough the outcomes are not the same. And 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.760 so what's the difference. Well, these are African Americans and 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.160 these are Africans, so the American part must be the difference. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.400 So what's going on with the American part that's making 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.920 the African Americans suffer more than the African counterparts? Granted, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.880 Africa is not in the best shape, but there's different 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.760 ailments in African. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:25.960 Countries. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.800 There's the legacy of colonialism, there's you know, the theft 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:37.600 and theft really in mass and then bad deals and 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.600 people not honoring and then all kinds of government manipulation, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.600 British government manipulation that you know, destabilizes the country. And 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.880 then you have left with the continent that looks the 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.800 way it looks now. But you know how the prison 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.240 populations look. You know what I mean, You see what 0:16:55.280 --> 0:17:01.160 I'm saying. So history is very, very important because it 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.520 gives you a framework to understand the world a little 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.080 bit better. Now, I didn't read this article yet, and 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:08.679 I do need to read it just to you know, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:14.040 preserve some journalistic integrity here, So I'll start. According to 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:19.080 w E s H two News, the FDOE said in 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.800 a letter to College Board that it would not approve 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.119 including ap African American studies into the Florida Course Code 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.720 directory and instructional personnel assignments because quote, the content of 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.639 this course is inexplicably, inexplicably contrary to Florida law. That 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.879 would have been enough. It wouldn't have been enough. But okay, 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.520 but here's where the knife gets twisted and significantly lacks 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:49.200 educational value. Okay, that's the hurtful part. So my history 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.480 lacks educational value. And mind you, this is an. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.600 AP course and it's contrary to the law. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.760 Yeah, and I get that. That's you know, you fight 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.479 some battles, you lose some battles. What are you going 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.480 to do? Right, But then to go ahead and insult 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.680 the educational value of our history is a slap in 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.359 the face. You know. As a matter of fact, our 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.320 way black history facts should have been about that that 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.000 beach in Florida where only blacks could that was the 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.119 only beach in Florida where black people could go and swim. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.520 In fact, I'll do that, and that'll show you just 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.679 how racist Florida has been in the past. And this 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.760 obviously shows that Florida is still, at least in these 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:37.199 pockets of power, tenuous power, how racist it still can be. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.960 And I was making a point. This is an AP course, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.720 so those for those familiar, AP is not kindergarten, it's 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.119 not first grade, it's not second grade. AP is advanced placement, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.640 I believe is the is what it's abbreviated for. I 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.720 I took AP courses in high school. It was a 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.560 long time ago, but all right, I'll finish reading or 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.520 I'll continue reading rather. The AP African American Studies course 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:03.920 was limited this academic year in sixty schools across the nation. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.680 Per the College Board website, the course intends to introduce 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.919 high school students to African American studies and includes a 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:16.000 curriculum that covers literature, geography, and more. Here's a quote. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.719 Drawing from expertise and experience of college faculty and teachers 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.160 across the country, the course is designed to offer high 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.880 school students an evidence based introduction to African American studies. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.040 The description of the course reads, per College Board quote, 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.760 the interdisciplinary course reaches into a variety of fields literature, 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.440 the arts and humanities, political science, geography, and more science 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.760 to explore the vital contributions and experiences of African Americans. 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.280 During the twenty twenty three twenty four academic school year, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.879 the pilot is expected to be implemented in hundreds of 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.679 schools before all institutions can start offering the course in 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.760 twenty twenty four to twenty five. The first AP exams 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.880 are set to be administered in the spring of twenty 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:04.240 twe twenty five, following the FDE blocking the African American 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.439 Studies course. College Board issued the following statement quote, Like 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.840 all new AP courses, AP African American Studies is undergoing 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:16.200 a rigorous multi year pilot phase, collecting feedback from teachers, students, scholars, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.760 and policymakers. The process of piloting and revising course frameworks 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.520 is standard part of any new AP course, and frameworks 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.040 changed significantly as a result. We look forward to publicly 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.399 releasing the updated course framework as soon as it is 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.800 completed and well before this class is widely available in 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.520 American high schools. In its letter to college Board, the 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.560 FDOE wrote, in the future, should College Board be willing 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.920 to come back to the table with lawful, historically accurate content, 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:45.000 FDOE will always be willing to reopen the discussion. Okay, So, basically, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:52.000 they spent years with some of the most prominent educators 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:58.359 in this country developing in this curriculum, They piloted it 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.919 to see if it were works, and then when they 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:06.960 took it to Florida, Florida says it lacks significant education 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.800 or sorry, significantly lacks educational value, and then later says 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:21.239 that the content was historically inaccurate. In other words, if 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.880 you come back to the table with lawful, historically accurate 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.840 content will resume the conversation, so that lets me. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.040 Know they and still ultimately till you know, yes and 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:31.320 we're empowered to do so. 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:35.359 Right, they're going to make it wrong even if it's not. 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.040 They already did that. And I think your point that 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.000 you made was they're doing this right in front of 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:48.240 everyone's face, not even hiding the fact, and they're adding 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:53.920 insult to injury. It's like they're mocking us. How dare 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:54.480 you say? 0:21:54.680 --> 0:22:01.919 And singularly because other ap history classes from other cultures, 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:07.159 other backgrounds, other migrant cultures that came over to this league, 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.720 talk to them. Those are historical, listory and lawful. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.640 I did a talk about this again on the Black 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:23.560 Information Network Daily podcast where I discussed the Holocaust. So 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:31.639 m hmm, let's talk about this tragedy is a tragedy. 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:35.159 I want to make sure that I say that I 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:40.320 do believe that children should know about the Holocaust. I 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.439 believe everybody should know about the Holocaust. It is an 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.639 awful thing that happened, and we need to continue to 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.080 learn from it so that we know how to be 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:51.520 the best brothers and sisters to our Jewish brothers and 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:54.679 sisters as we can possibly be A and B. We 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:56.800 need to know about it so we know how to 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:05.879 observe the uh makes of a similar event phenomenon taking 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.920 place in the future, so that we can prevent it 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:13.920 from you know, prevent the systematic extermination of human beings 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:21.440 for their religious beliefs. Right, it's necessary. It has significant 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:25.600 educational value. Right, I believe this, Right, so does the 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:27.080 Florida Department of Education. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:28.240 Right. 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:34.040 Six million. Now, again, I'm not an atrocity is an atrocity, 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:38.840 and I'm not trying to compare other than to say 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:43.520 that while that counts in my view and their view 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:50.800 as significantly having educational value. Also, when you take into 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.320 account the amount of slaves that die just in the 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:55.520 Middle Passage, I think that was somewhere in the neighborhood 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:59.960 of eighty million, eighty eighty five million, something like that. 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:03.560 If that number may not be right, but it's certainly 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:09.840 more than six million, right, And so that too belongs here, 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.360 And if that were the only thing, that would be it. 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:21.439 But obviously the rabbit hole goes much deeper. But now 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:23.280 it's time for the way Black history facts. So let's 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:26.080 move it on. Today's Way. Black History Fact is sponsored 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:29.640 by the Black Information Network Daily Podcast and today we 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:34.040 are pulling from two sources, so we be Rollingstone dot com. 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:36.399 Shout out to Rolling Stone, they did a nice article 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:42.200 on us and Blackpast dot org and we are talking 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:46.679 about Bo Diddley. Sorry, I had a moment shout out 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:48.399 to Rolling Stone because they did an article on us. 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:51.639 That's actually shout out. They did do an article on 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:52.080 this show. 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:52.679 Thank you. 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.720 Yeah, that's that's that's special. 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:58.000 That's an impossible thing to say out loud, and it'll 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:00.880 be true. Man, we're doing something special apparently, all right. 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.919 Boxer and singer Bo Didley, whose birth name was Ellis 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:09.880 Bates McDaniel, was born on December thirtieth, nineteen twenty eight, 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:13.680 in McComb, Mississippi. He was adopted by his mother's cousin. 0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:16.480 When the mother's husband died in the mid nineteen thirties, 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.320 McDaniel moved her family to Chicago, where young Ellis took 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:23.840 violin lessons from Professor ol W. Frederick at the Ebenezer 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:27.679 Missionary Baptist Church. He studied violin for twelve years and 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:32.240 composed two concertos or concertos. I never know how to 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:35.600 say that word. In nineteen forty, his sister bought McDaniel 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:38.240 and acoustic guitar for Christmas. He soon started to play 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:42.600 the guitar, largely duplicating his actions on the violin. Soon afterwards, 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:46.120 he formed his first group of three, named the Hipsters 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:52.199 and later known as the Langley Avenue Jive Cats. I 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:55.160 Love That. It was during this time that the band 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:58.879 leaders gave him the nickname Bo Diddley. Didley recorded his 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:01.240 first single, Bo did Lee Slash I Am a Man 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:04.359 on March second, nineteen fifty five, on Checkers Records. It 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:07.200 topped the R and B chart for two weeks. Soon afterward, 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:10.119 Didley began to tour, performing in schools, colleges, and churches 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.280 across the United States. Regardless of the venue, he taught 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:16.119 people the importance of respect and education and all the 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:19.760