IDKMYDE: The Myth of 'We're Past All That

We're past all that" sounds good... until you look at the timeline. B Daht breaks down
how time gets weaponized to shut down conversations.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The myth of we're past all that.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I welcome back no a ass to another episode of
the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect podcast Network,
especially in February. And it's entitled I didn't know. Maybe
you didn't either. I am your host, be Dodds, and
I'm sure you've heard this before. I know they fill
up the comments section on our Instagram. Make sure you're

(00:25):
following IDK myde with an underscore before it and behind it.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
But as somebody always saying.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh, slavery, slavery was a long time ago, Well how
about Jim Crow. Jim Crow is over for this one
right here. Y'all keep bringing up the past. Why you
keep living in the past. Oh, this is the backbreaker
right here, I was hundreds of years ago. We're passed
all that now, right then, explain why we still arguing

(00:54):
about the same stuff. How about we open up that
case file. But before we do, I've got to give
you three of the most useless facts you'll never need, ever,
not a day in life, about how we're not passed
all that up. First, the Civil Rights Act was signed
in nineteen sixty four. That wasn't even two generations ago.

(01:14):
Y'all ask your grandparents about it. They remember, it's not ancient.
Your second useless facts, The Fair Housing Acts didn't pass
until nineteen sixty eight. That was after Martin Luther King
Junior was assassinated.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Folks. Then your third useless fact.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Most of the wealth gap in America, it was formed
after slavery, not during it. As a matter of fact,
did you know that the median white family has about
eight times the wealth of the median black family. And
did you not that that gap widened after reconstruction, after redlining,
after the GI Bill was denied to black veterans.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Because I didn't I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I didn't know. I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I didn't I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Look, here's the trick behind. Oh, come on, we're passed
all that.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It collapses time, it takes unfinished business and labels it ancient,
so nobody has to deal with it. Yes, on paper,
slavery ends in eighteen sixty five, but segregation explodes right
after Jim Crow lasts nearly one hundred years. Red line
and shape where people live at schools get defunded, jobs
get blocked, wealth gets extracted, and then somebody looks at

(02:30):
the results and says.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Why can't y'all just move on?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, why can't you just pull yourselves up by your
boots traps those four words we're past all? That only
works if you never talk about what came after. And
that's exactly what Carter G. Woodson was warning us about
one hundred years ago. He said, if you disconnect people
from their history, you can convince them that their position
is natural.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
And that's the myth.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
The truth is, we're not pasted it, we're living with
it and pretending otherwise.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Don't heal a damn thing. It just freezes the conversation.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
A whole century after Cardigi Woodson created Negro History Week,
the myth has just been upgraded. Now it's not Black
people don't have history, it's black history doesn't matter anymore.
Same goal, different packaging. And Cardigi Woodson knew that the
LIAW would evolve. That's why preservation had to be permanent.
But the next time you hear somebody say we're past all,

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that your retort should be, you don't get past something
that you never finished dealing with. And I didn't know
maybe you didn't either,