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Speaker 1: The next hundred years starts with who tells the story?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Know. It alls to another episode of the

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Speaker 1: most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially

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Speaker 1: in February, entitled I didn't know Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host be Dots, and I sincerely hope you've

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Speaker 1: enjoyed season five's twenty eight Black History episodes. For the

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Speaker 1: one hundred year celebration of Black History, Monk has been

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Speaker 1: the theme all season. One hundred years Ago, Carter G.

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Speaker 1: Woodson he didn't ask permission to tell Black history. He

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Speaker 1: built a system so it couldn't be ignored. So the

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Speaker 1: real question at the end of this season isn't what happened.

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Speaker 1: We know what happened. The question is who's telling the story.

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Speaker 1: Now let's open up that case foul. But of course

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Speaker 1: before we do, we have to give you three of

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Speaker 1: the most useless facts you'll never need, never not a

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Speaker 1: day in life about telling our history. Up First, moost

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Speaker 1: history has written after the power has already decided who matters?

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Speaker 1: Always say history is told about the victor. Your second

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Speaker 1: useless fact. For most of American history, black people were

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Speaker 1: excluded from archives, textbooks.

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Speaker 2: And museums, and our third useless fact.

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Speaker 1: Today, more Black history is being preserved digitally than at

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Speaker 1: any other time in history.

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Speaker 2: And over here we like to consider ourselves one.

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Speaker 1: Of the platforms at the forefront of said movement.

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

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Speaker 2: didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

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

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Speaker 1: Here's the truth that nobody likes to say out loud.

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Speaker 1: History doesn't disappear, it gets curated. Look for generations. The

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Speaker 1: story of America was told by the people in power,

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Speaker 1: the people with printing presses, the people who benefited from silence.

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Speaker 2: That's why Black history didn't vanish.

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Speaker 1: It just lived in kitchens, barbershops, churches, front porches, music jokes,

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Speaker 1: you know me, Mom's stories and TT's warnings, Uncle June bugs,

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Speaker 1: side eye. Cardog Woodson understood something revolutionary. If we wait

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Speaker 1: for others to tell our stories, they'll tell it in

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Speaker 1: a way that keeps them comfortable. That's why every year

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Speaker 1: we only hear about Rosa Parks and George Washington Carver

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Speaker 1: and Martin Luther King's Dream. They don't teach you about

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Speaker 1: Fred Hampton and Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther Part

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Speaker 1: of it self defense. That's why Carterig Woodson didn't create

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Speaker 1: Just a week he created ownership, and now one hundred

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Speaker 1: years later, something shifted. We don't need permission to publish,

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Speaker 1: We don't need approval to teach. We don't need a

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Speaker 1: gatekeeper to validate truth. Podcasts like this very one I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't either, social media, community archives,

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Speaker 1: digital storytelling. The twos are different, but the mission is

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Speaker 1: the same. The next one hundred years of black history

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Speaker 1: won't be decided by who allow It'll be decided by

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Speaker 1: who documents it, who protects it, and who refuses to let.

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Speaker 2: It be edited.

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Speaker 1: Ever. Again, that's the quiet power of this moment. We're

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Speaker 1: no longer asking to be included in history. We building

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Speaker 1: the record ourselves and sharing it right here on the

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Speaker 1: Black Effect Podcast Network. Cardigie Woodson once said that if

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Speaker 1: a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition.

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Speaker 1: A century later, the tradition is alive, folks, and the

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Speaker 1: responsibility is super clear. If the first hundred years were

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Speaker 1: about survival and correction, next hundred years are about control

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Speaker 1: and continuity. Black history. Money didn't end the conversation. It

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Speaker 1: started one and the next chapter won't be written by

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Speaker 1: whoever's loudest. It'll be written by whoever shows up, tells

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Speaker 1: the truth, and leaves receipts. Make sure you share these

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Speaker 1: twenty eight episodes of Black History Monk and keep it

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Speaker 1: locked the Starting in March, we're right back to weekly

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Speaker 1: episodes of I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't either, But then no, do do