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IDKMYDE: The Myth of 'We're Past All That · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The myth of we're past all that.
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  Speaker 2: I welcome back no a ass to another episode of
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  Speaker 2: the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect podcast Network,
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  Speaker 2: especially in February. And it's entitled I didn't know. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you didn't either. I am your host, be Dodds, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you've heard this before. I know they fill
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  Speaker 2: up the comments section on our Instagram. Make sure you're
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  Speaker 2: following IDK myde with an underscore before it and behind it.
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  Speaker 1: But as somebody always saying.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, slavery, slavery was a long time ago, Well how
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  Speaker 2: about Jim Crow. Jim Crow is over for this one
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  Speaker 2: right here. Y'all keep bringing up the past. Why you
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  Speaker 2: keep living in the past. Oh, this is the backbreaker
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  Speaker 2: right here, I was hundreds of years ago. We're passed
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  Speaker 2: all that now, right then, explain why we still arguing
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  Speaker 2: about the same stuff. How about we open up that
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  Speaker 2: case file. But before we do, I've got to give
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  Speaker 2: you three of the most useless facts you'll never need, ever,
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  Speaker 2: not a day in life, about how we're not passed
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  Speaker 2: all that up. First, the Civil Rights Act was signed
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty four. That wasn't even two generations ago.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all ask your grandparents about it. They remember, it's not ancient.
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  Speaker 2: Your second useless facts, The Fair Housing Acts didn't pass
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  Speaker 2: until nineteen sixty eight. That was after Martin Luther King
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  Speaker 2: Junior was assassinated.
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  Speaker 1: Folks. Then your third useless fact.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the wealth gap in America, it was formed
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  Speaker 2: after slavery, not during it. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: did you know that the median white family has about
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  Speaker 2: eight times the wealth of the median black family. And
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  Speaker 2: did you not that that gap widened after reconstruction, after redlining,
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  Speaker 2: after the GI Bill was denied to black veterans.
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  Speaker 1: Because I didn't I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Look, here's the trick behind. Oh, come on, we're passed
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 2: It collapses time, it takes unfinished business and labels it ancient,
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  Speaker 2: so nobody has to deal with it. Yes, on paper,
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  Speaker 2: slavery ends in eighteen sixty five, but segregation explodes right
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  Speaker 2: after Jim Crow lasts nearly one hundred years. Red line
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  Speaker 2: and shape where people live at schools get defunded, jobs
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  Speaker 2: get blocked, wealth gets extracted, and then somebody looks at
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  Speaker 2: the results and says.
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  Speaker 1: Why can't y'all just move on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, why can't you just pull yourselves up by your
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  Speaker 2: boots traps those four words we're past all? That only
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  Speaker 2: works if you never talk about what came after. And
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what Carter G. Woodson was warning us about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred years ago. He said, if you disconnect people
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  Speaker 2: from their history, you can convince them that their position
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  Speaker 2: is natural.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the myth.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is, we're not pasted it, we're living with
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  Speaker 2: it and pretending otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Don't heal a damn thing. It just freezes the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: A whole century after Cardigi Woodson created Negro History Week,
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  Speaker 2: the myth has just been upgraded. Now it's not Black
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  Speaker 2: people don't have history, it's black history doesn't matter anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Same goal, different packaging. And Cardigi Woodson knew that the
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  Speaker 2: LIAW would evolve. That's why preservation had to be permanent.
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  Speaker 2: But the next time you hear somebody say we're past all,
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  Speaker 2: that your retort should be, you don't get past something
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  Speaker 2: that you never finished dealing with. And I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: maybe you didn't either,