1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: The black woman who built her own war hospital. Well, 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:08,159 Speaker 1: come to Jamaica. I didn't welcome back me all all 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: friends to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on 4 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: the Block podcast network and entitled me didn't know. Maybe 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: you didn't know, Ida, Maybe you didn't know Needa. You're 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: a host right here, I'll be dark. What y'all think? 7 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: How do how'll do on my Jamaica? Look? I want 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: to go to Jamaica this year and my manager slash strategist, 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: she's have Jamaica, so she turns that thing on and off. 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: You did what I'm saying, mid doing manfest there. Whenever 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: I try to do a Jamaican accent, my reference point 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: is Sebastian from The Little Mermaid. Yeah, you see her 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: looking at her across the wig like that's where I 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: get that. Or I just say Holly Salassii. Whenever I 15 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: say Holly Salassii. It's also puts me in the frames 16 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,319 Speaker 1: to talk like this. I'm gonna work on it. If 17 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: you haven't figured it out yet today episode, you do 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: still need your digital passport because we're headed to jamn 19 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: Come on, and I got a quick reminder for you 20 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: before we start. When I'm black woman, get telling nom history. 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get built anyway. But before we get in 22 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: all of that, you know, I gotta kick off the 23 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: episode with three of the most useless facts you'll never ever, never, never, ever, never, 24 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: never need not a day in life. Up first, one 25 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: of the most important nurses in war history wasn't even 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: allowed to work for the British military. Your second useless fact, 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,199 Speaker 1: This same black woman treated wounded soldiers on the front 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: lines during the Korean War. And your third useless facts 29 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: she treated those wounded soldiers by building her own hospital 30 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: in a war zone. Man, let's talk about Mary Sea Cole. 31 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I 32 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. 33 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know. Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica in 34 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: the early eighteen hundreds. She was a healer, a nurse, 35 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 1: a businesswoman, and somebody who knew how to get things done. 36 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: She learned traditional Jamaican healing from her mom, who ran 37 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: a boarding house for six soldiers. By the time she 38 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: was in her twenties, Mary was already treating cholera outbreaks 39 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: across the Caribbean and all cholera was was the runs? Yeah, 40 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: it was a diarrhea disease caused by bacteria. When the 41 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: Korean War broke out in the eighteen fifties, Mary wanted 42 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: to help wound the British soldiers, so she applied to 43 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: join the official nursing corps. And they said absolutely not 44 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: not because she wasn't qualified. You know why the eighteen 45 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: fifties because she was black. Oh, and Mary got the receipts. 46 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: The rejection letters still exists. Mary applied four times one, two, 47 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: three four. Meanwhile Florence Nightingale got the resources, the support 48 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: and the history books. So Mary Seaco looked at their 49 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: rejection and said, cool, May I go do it? Missus. 50 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: She traveled to the war zone on her own dime 51 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: built what she called the British Hotel park hospital, part 52 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: supply center, part refuge. The British Hotel was two miles 53 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: from the front line. Mary would ride out on horseback 54 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: after battles to treat the soldiers right where they fell 55 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: under fire. She treated soldiers directly on the battlefield, would 56 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: use herbal medicines, provided food, care, comfort man. The soldiers 57 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: loved her. They called their mother Sea Cole, but here's 58 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: the global part that they just don't teach. Mary Seacole 59 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: wasn't just helping individuals, she was building infrastructure. This has 60 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: been the same theme all season. When institutions blocked her, 61 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: she created her own. That's the whole playbook right there. 62 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: If you don't learn anything else this season, when you 63 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: get blocked by an institution, create your own. Because after 64 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: that war, Mary seaco returned to England, broke no pension, 65 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: no recognition, no statue, no story, just faded until people 66 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: went back and looked for it. In two thousand and four, 67 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: she was voted the greatest Black Britain. In twenty sixteen, 68 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: she finally got a statue in London, one hundred and 69 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: thirty five years after her death. A century later, you 70 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: know the story. Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week 71 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: because stories like Mary Seacole's disappear without protection, not because 72 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: they aren't powerful, but because they challenge who gets the credit. 73 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: And cgdubnew that what I call Cardig Woodson. If we 74 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: don't preserve black excellence globally, history will hand the flowers 75 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: to somebody else. Make sure you share this episode. If 76 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I congratulations. Your 77 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: passport has been stamped. Next stop Africa.