WEBVTT - Black History is American History 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.280 My league has how the knowledge you want, My league, 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.360 but has how a knowledge you need? 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:05.840 Lead. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.920 Yeah, they have out the books that the whole wild 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.280 world one up read My League. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.760 But welcome, welcome, Welcome. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.840 To Malie's Bookshow, Bringing a World Together with Books, Culture 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:20.040 and community. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.680 Whoa, it's twenty twenty five. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.520 This is season three, episode one. Come on now, come on, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.920 I gotta get back into it. I gotta get my 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.040 mind right. This episode that I'm going to be doing 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.320 today is what's been in the airwaves. Plus it's Black 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.440 History Month, and so this is called black history is 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:40.519 American history. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.120 So I hope you enjoyed this episode. But hey, I'm back. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.600 I'm back, and I'm back Malak's Book Show, Bringing a 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.199 World Together with Books, Culture and community. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.360 One more, more, more, more thing. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.640 I also have an episode I'm going to feature that 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.880 I interview Katie Mitchell, who wrote the book Prose to 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.920 the People. I interviewed her because that book is coming 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:07.240 up in April. And guess what Malik Books is in there. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.760 Because it's a book about black bookstores and their impact 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.679 all across this nation America, and so I'm excited. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.840 It's a picture book, it's beautiful pictures. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.200 It talks about Eliite books in all the decades that 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.039 we've been doing this work as a black bookstore, but 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.000 it's we just one amongst others that are featured in there. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.160 I called it the Black book Revolution. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.600 This story has never been told and so I'm glad 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:34.800 that we're featured in. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.240 It because we have put into work and there's a. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.959 Lot of body of work. So pros to the people 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.520 by Katie Mitchell. That interview is going to be on 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.640 here along with my talk about Black history is American history. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.920 And I'm woven indeed, I because that's what has been 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.360 rolled back, So I'm woven all this in together. All right, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:03.760 peace enjoyed the episode. It's twenty twenty five and we're 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.200 starting our third season of Malak's booksh Up bringing a 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.400 world together with books, culture. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.960 And community. It's twenty twenty five. This is our third season. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.600 We hadn done over one hundred episodes in the last 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:21.200 two seasons. This particular episode is what's been in the 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:26.639 streets on in the airwaves. We're talking about black history 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:32.240 is American history because of this DEI this been all 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:37.080 in the media talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:38.120 We've been. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.919 Listen, the father and founder of Black History Month, it 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.600 started off Black History Week. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:45.919 It's Carter G. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.800 Whisson who wrote a book called mis Education of the Negro. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.519 And let me tell you, that's a powerful book. He 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:57.400 wrote it decades and decades and decades ago. He's an educator, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.800 and the book is relevant to this day, this Education 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.360 of the Negro. The thing that stood out the most 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.040 about that book is the fact that he said, if 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.519 you control a person's education, you don't have to worry 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:15.000 about their actions. If you put a barrier in front 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.200 of them, they will carve out a path through the 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.480 barrier or door. That right there stuck out in my 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:22.720 mind because. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:28.120 Black people in America don't control their education all right. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.760 We go to public schools primarily, and even when we 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.880 go to most of the private schools, they are usually 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.880 funded by other cultures, other races. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.960 So we don't control our. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.360 True education in America. And one of the most dangerous 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:50.320 things in the country is a person who's uneducated. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:50.840 Listen. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:56.040 It costs more on this system in this country to house, 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:02.400 to do social reform, do all these different projects in programs. 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:06.480 When someone's educated. So it is a benefit to this 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:07.800 nation to this country. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.760 If a person is educated, y as can read and 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:17.200 write and arithmetic, because it's a burden on society if 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.400 you're not educated. So it's a system in place. Everyone 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.240 is required to go to school, everyone is required to 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:29.000 take stating tests to assess the effectiveness of. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.960 A school or where you at as a person. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.080 Okay, and the American is not doing too well in 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:40.280 terms of that on these standardized tests. All right, considering 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.480 it's the mightiest nation on the planet, it's the major superpower, 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.520 and it's the leading nation of innovation, but yet these 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.960 test scores are horrible compared to other nations who have 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.640 far less resources and so forth. Well, anyway, DII Diversity 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:04.760 Equity and concludion, Diversity, equity and inclusion. Black history is 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.880 American history, and we don't need permission to celebrate our 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.600 culture and our achievements because. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.720 We made a contribution blood and sweat in this nation. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.040 And one of the reasons why this nation is mighty 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:27.080 as powerful is because of black culture, black people and 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.000 the achievements that we made many inventions. I don't need 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.960 to go through that because black history is world, not 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.599 just American, but it's wild history because black people taught 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.760 the world. Math, science, we educated. We wasn't jungle bunnies 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.320 running in the jungle when they came to Africa to 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.320 en slave maybe some black people, but black folks built pyramids. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.520 Black people had high science and math. Black people was 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:58.760 culturally civilized, and they're taught this as secret societies and 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:04.599 certain books. You go read doctor Ben Jackman's book, Black 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.919 Men of the Now. You can read Mother of Civilization 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.200 by doctor Joseph bin Jackman. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.360 Hey, you can read J. A. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.480 Rogers and a Black American who wrote a book in 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:16.840 nineteen twenties. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:18.839 World's Great Men of Color. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.479 All Right, you can read his book that he wrote, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.440 Africa's Gift to America. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.159 Black history is American history. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.719 Black people contributions to this nation have helped this nation 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:31.599 to become. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.880 Mighty powerful and proud. You know what I'm saying. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.040 When people watch us in sports, watch US win Olympic medals. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.960 World championships, they are excited. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.039 And it has united this nation under a lot of areas, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.000 particularly sports, and he'll integrate us in a lot of ways. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.400 But there's this national pride. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.080 A lot of it has to do with black success 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.240 in sports and entertainment. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.240 Okay, Now, in business, come on now. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:07.239 In business, we were the top mathematicians before we became slaves. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.800 So we were builders, just like we built that white house. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.200 We wasn't just jungle bunnies uneducated coming over here. We 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.920 had knowledge where wisdom it was stripped from us. That's 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.440 another story. But I'm just here to talk about Black 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.320 history is American history, and we don't need DEI to 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.640 celebrate our culture. We didn't have it back when Jay 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.680 Rogers wrote Miseducation of the Negro and started Black History Month. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.400 We don't need permission from no president or. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.800 No leader or no school board. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.440 We're gonna celebrate our culture because it is our culture 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.800 and is our responsibility to pass it on to. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:46.800 The next generation. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:52.360 We have achieved the Norman success in this nation, despite racism, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.680 despite slavery, despite listen, I know some of you don't 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.920 like to hear all of that. I know some of 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.720 y'all don't want to be reminded of your past, but hey, 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.160 it's part of American history. I'm not for counsel culture. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.560 Let's just tell the truth. Let's just be honest, all right. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:14.840 So right now, it's twenty twenty five, we got a 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.120 new president and all this d I. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.080 Talk about diversity, equity, inclusion. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.960 A lot of companies are eliminating, the federal government is eliminating. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:32.360 So and so the question is do we need to 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.719 be successful in America? So I personally listen. I got 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.200 a bookstore. Believe books, all right, I've read a lot 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:41.640 of books. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:46.280 I've seen a lot of gut it, okay, And do 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.840 we need social programs and to be successful? I don't believe. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:49.960 So. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.240 Now it's nice to have. Then it's a benefit to heaven. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.760 I'm not against having these social programs, you know, to 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.679 level up, all right, I'm not against that at all. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.439 But I don't want us thinking that if we don't 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.200 have them social programs like d I, that we can't win. Well, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.319 I'm here to tell you can win. No more excuses. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.280 You can win without d I. We crawed up about 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.240 a slavery didn't have no social program and look. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:17.920 Where we're at. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.960 We don't have to have these programs to win and 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.240 be great and successful. We been able to achieve and 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:31.079 no missuccess in this country, regardless of discrimination, regardless of racism. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.360 So it is d I gonna stop black folks from winning. No, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.920 it can only stop you if you believe that, and 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:37.760 I don't believe that. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.520 I believe black people are one of the most resourceful, resilient, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.720 and strongest people on this planet. And if they don't 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.200 want to give us. I live through affirmative action, I 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:55.200 lived through multiculturalism. I've lived through d I it just listen. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.920 History peats itself. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.960 When you don't get it right. So we always keep 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.800 going back to the same thing. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.800 And then another generation say, oh, as reverse racism. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.679 Oh you're not hiring the best people for the job. No, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.400 and you getting favoritism because of your skin color. I 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.120 didn't been through that. Do affirmative action. I didn't been 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.640 through that through marketing called and multiculturalists. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.480 Now I'm living through d They give it, they take 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.920 it away, they give it, they take it away, they 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.880 give it, they take it away. It's a lot of 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.840 blacks to think that we have to have these programs, 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.199 and I'm not against it. If we have it, I'm 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.960 not against it. But you're not gonna tell me that 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.760 that's gonna stop someone like jay Z from being successful 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.960 or Beyonce, they being theirs. Okay, we have people do this. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.199 Dude invented I forgot his name. He invented the water gun. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.200 You know what I'm saying, made millions from it. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.040 Oh right, So man, I can go on and on 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:56.800 about modern day inventions. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.120 I believe Robin his name is Robert Hope Bryant. All right, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.240 he's a billionaire. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:02.920 All right. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.120 Now, I ain't got to speak for him, but this 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.000 brother said Deis did. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.600 All right, all right, I'm not looking at we got sick. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.320 Look we in nineteen sixties, we had civil rights movement. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.640 We are what eighty something years up from or sixty 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.400 something day? Okay, from nineteen sixty four civil rights moving 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:22.840 to today. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.760 We got data to study. The best way to learn 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.520 from the past is study the past. Study history. If 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.600 rewards you for your research, look at the data. Look 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.840 at the data. Okay. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.040 We can keep getting all these social reforms and handouts, right, 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.000 and all of a sudden, another generation come boom every 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.640 twenty years and we're back to square one. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:44.240 All right. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.559 If we want permanent change, permanent salute, we got to 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.280 learn from the past in order to gain what we 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.319 need in the future. 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.520 All right, History rewards you for your research. We got 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:56.160 the data. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.280 We got the data when integration took place, we got 0:11:59.280 --> 0:11:59.760 the data. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.600 How a lot of our black business in the South 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.880 folded up because we didn't recycle the black dollar no more. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.160 We was forced to do dough segregation, black bus companies, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.760 black restaurants, black this, black. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.040 Dad, and you was forced to support these companies. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.080 Now you have a choice to go to other companies 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.559 because it's you know, they got rid of the Jim Crow, 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.800 they got rid of all that. But guess what we're 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.920 choosing as a people to not recycle the black dollar 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.840 within our own community. So we have a lot of problems, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.600 you know, that are coming up and arison because of 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.880 the lot of unity. And really, look, I'll watch these 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.400 old movies and I read some of these books. When 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.120 you become an owner of business owner, you become a 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.040 problem solving all right. America in order to grow it 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.280 had to solve his problems, all right. Imagine living in 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.760 the wild, wild West, all right. People came from all 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.840 over America and hit it West to get a plot 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.320 of and freedom. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.040 They knew that there was no loss, it was lawless. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.040 They knew there was war with the Indians, they knew 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.800 that it was all these unlawful. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:12.440 Murders taking place. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.480 Yet they still came and sacrifice to come and build 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.000 the West, all right. So they didn't have DEI, they 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.680 didn't have social reform, they didn't have nothing. They had 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.679 unity and a belief and the idea. All I'm saying 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.280 is sometimes you just you know, they had they got land, 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.680 and they believed in unity, all right, and they solved 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:33.160 the problem. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:33.640 Listen. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.680 If unite the black dollar induced for self, we can 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:44.040 have more of what it's in America Americans for sale, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.200 and we need to buy them like everybody. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:46.800 Else, all right. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.800 But if you need unity, we have to work together. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.840 And that's not taking nothing away from other people. It's 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.040 yet because other cultures of the racists, that's what they do. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.800 They support their own and they also read the wealth 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.160 to other people. But they start at home. Charity starts 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:08.920 at home. Black history is American history. We don't need 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.720 social programs to be successful. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.080 That's the trick, all right. Listen. I'm not against it, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.480 but you can't tell me if we don't have. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.800 It, that you're not gonna be educated, you're not gonna win, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.720 and you're not gonna be successful. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.480 All Right. It's nice to have it. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.840 All right, but the reality that you might not have 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.200 it and it might go away and then what you're 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:32.600 gonna do. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.080 You're gonna not be resilient. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.400 You're gonna you're not gonna keep continue the path, you know, charge. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:44.240 Forward, make changes may make you got to win, all right. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.920 The bottom line is you got to win. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.960 I use books to help my community to win, all right. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.240 Anything you want to find, you can find a book. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.840 Nips Unso didn't have an education, but he was a 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.120 mellion there, right. Nipsey Hustle didn't graduate from high school 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.040 or college, but yet he was a million there, right, So. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.360 It DEI wasn't social programs. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.960 Listen, you can win without this if listen, you can't 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.560 force a people to change that don't want to be changed, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.560 all right. But the reality is that we have to 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.760 believe in ourselves that we can still win regardless of 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.200 these social programs, because they keep playing. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.440 They dangle it, then they take it away. They dangle 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.120 it and then take it away, and then we. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.920 Start matching them down the street, wanting and shouting and pouting. 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.320 Because they take it away. That's what they always do. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.040 That's the history of murder. I'm just telling you the history. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.200 I live through it. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.680 Affirmative fact, give it, take it away, multiculturalism, give it, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.200 they take it away. Di they give it, they take it. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.920 Away, same thing. But it don't change the fact. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.600 Black history is American history, and Black people we don't 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.960 need no one, no permission to celebrate our culture, our history, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.880 and our achievements in this country. We're gonna celebrate whether 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.640 we got DEI, whether we got affirmed or that, whether 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.480 we got multiculturalism, we're gonna celebrate it. And if people 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.440 don't think you visible leaks books lead books dot com. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.080 If you want to see greatest yr world's great men 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.240 of color, I forgots give to America. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.320 J A. Rock. He didn't live to see how powerful 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.240 his books have become. But let me tell you something. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.200 Black people is part of America and we not going nowhere. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:26.720 We're part of why this. 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.600 Nation is great, and we not going nowhere because Black 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.040 history is American history and we're gonna. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.200 Celebrate it from the top to the bottom. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.120 And Wenna, we don't need nobody's permission to celebrate what 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.800 is true and what is great about this nation. Yet 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.560 we're not trying to dwell in the past. But you 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.800 know what, Yes, we got to go forward. And there's 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.040 been a lot of changes that have happened for the good, okay, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.960 And people have stood up, they have marched, they have protested, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:56.800 or what have you. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.600 And there have been a lot of changes in this conation. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:00.760 All right, we can. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.520 Go to any college as long as you got to 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.800 do you know, the. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.840 SAT scores and the grades. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.280 You know, you can go to pretty much any Harvard, Yale, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:11.840 whatever whatever school. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.679 I went to USC. But all I'm telling you is, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.359 regardless of these program. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.879 D I, it ain't gonna change the fact that Black 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.440 history is American history, and we're part of the success 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.560 of this nation. And we're not going nowhere, and we're 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.040 gonna keep forging ford to make this country as best 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.280 as it can can possibly. It got a lot of problems, yeah, 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.239 but it also got a lot of things that we 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:34.240 can be proud about. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.760 And so we're gonna move forward. We're gonna march forward. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.720 And I'm not gonna sit here and keep trying to 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.800 bag of people to do for us. Well, we must 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.399 do for ourselves, all right. No one can make the 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.920 change but us. No amount of money is gonna change 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.720 the fact that we got to unite and do for 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.080 self or we're gonna suffer the consequences so hey, that's mine. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:01.600 First episode, Season three, Malik's Bookshelf, bringing a world together 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.760 with books, culture and community peace. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.320 Hope you enjoyed this episode. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:14.600 Black History is American History. Look April twenty twenty five. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.000 The new book Pros to the People, the author Katie Midcher. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.639 I'm sitting right here at the ABA convention out here 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.120 in Denver, Conlorado. Before I leave, I got to get 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.639 some information about this wonderful book. We are featured in it, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.320 Elik Books. Like I said, it was a story that 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.840 never been told. Now people are writing, and she wrote 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.879 on Prose to the people, Katie, how you doing. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.879 I'm doing really good. Thanks for hanging out with me 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.639 here in Denver. Good to see y'all again. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.640 Yes, yes, yeah, Now break it down. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.639 Tell us why what motivated you to write this story 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.760 about black bookstores, your black bookstore owner as well. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.080 So tell us about the book, why you wrote the. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.399 Book, and what readers can take away from the book. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:56.640 Yeah. 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.840 So I knew that this history was so important, getting 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.359 to know all the black bookstores around the United States. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.879 I said, people need to know this history. And it 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.919 wasn't compiled in one volume like you said, It was 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.240 all in a news article here, you know, somebody's basement there. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.719 But I wanted it to be our history, to be 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.879 more accessible. So in the book you can expect to 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.639 find profiles of all sorts of different bookstores from the 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.080 past and the present. I'm going back all the way 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.560 to the eighteen thirties, which a lot of people don't 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.880 think there would be black bookstores in the eighteen thirties 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:28.840 because slavery was going on, but there was a black 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.040 book store then all the way to the twenty twenties, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.600 all around the country, all different types of bookstores. Because 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.840 you know, we all are not a monolith as they 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.320 like to put us as. So everybody's politics is different, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.480 their interest, their inventory and getting those stories. But then 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.560 also seeing how connected we are in that same vein. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.440 So I'm super excited. You know Eliite Books with the jingle, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.560 you know, we pop in with that and everything. So 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:54.880 super excited. 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.200 Who we excited. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:02.600 Look, this is a photographic got information about different bookstore, 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.520 black bookstores, but it's lots of pictures, lots of history 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.080 is in this book. Did you get any of the 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.200 photos back from eighteen thirties? 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.960 You say, we do have some old photos in there. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.560 I went to the archives and really dug to get 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.880 that information and was so lucky and blessed to get 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.920 a four by and Miss Nikki Giovanni before she passed 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.200 last year, So you'll see that in there, and also 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.040 pictures of her at the Black bookstores, because everybody I 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.280 talked to had a Nikki Giovanni story, so I wanted 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.520 to make sure she had the first word in that book. 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.040 Wonderful. I mean, that's an excellent author. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:41.720 She's a wonderful, award winning writer, and she is definite 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:46.520 impacted future generations of writers and thinkers. 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:50.080 And so we excited about pros to the people. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:55.480 Hey, listen, you know gonna go hard on this book. 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.960 We in it, and I'm very thankful that the years 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.080 of work since nineteen ninety we've been doing in Los 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:04.679 Angeles found. 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.000 This way in a book because we all collectedly. 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.720 I always call it the Black Book Revolution, the impact 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.439 that we made nationwide throughout this country. It's a story 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.640 and ain't been told, but now it's being told in 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:18.560 Katie Mitchell. 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.200