IDKMYDE: The Next 100 Years Starts with Who Tells the Story

The Season 5 finale ties everything together and asks the real question: who controls
the story now? Thoughtful, motivating, and a look forward—not backward.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The next hundred years starts with who tells the story?
Welcome back Know. It alls to another episode of the
most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially
in February, entitled I didn't know Maybe you didn't either.
I'm your host be Dots, and I sincerely hope you've

(00:21):
enjoyed season five's twenty eight Black History episodes. For the
one hundred year celebration of Black History, Monk has been
the theme all season. One hundred years Ago, Carter G.
Woodson he didn't ask permission to tell Black history. He
built a system so it couldn't be ignored. So the
real question at the end of this season isn't what happened.

(00:41):
We know what happened. The question is who's telling the story.
Now let's open up that case foul. But of course
before we do, we have to give you three of
the most useless facts you'll never need, never not a
day in life about telling our history. Up First, moost
history has written after the power has already decided who matters?

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Always say history is told about the victor. Your second
useless fact. For most of American history, black people were
excluded from archives, textbooks.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And museums, and our third useless fact.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Today, more Black history is being preserved digitally than at
any other time in history.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
And over here we like to consider ourselves one.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Of the platforms at the forefront of said movement.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I didn't know, I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Here's the truth that nobody likes to say out loud.
History doesn't disappear, it gets curated. Look for generations. The
story of America was told by the people in power,
the people with printing presses, the people who benefited from silence.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's why Black history didn't vanish.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It just lived in kitchens, barbershops, churches, front porches, music jokes,
you know me, Mom's stories and TT's warnings, Uncle June bugs,
side eye. Cardog Woodson understood something revolutionary. If we wait
for others to tell our stories, they'll tell it in
a way that keeps them comfortable. That's why every year

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we only hear about Rosa Parks and George Washington Carver
and Martin Luther King's Dream. They don't teach you about
Fred Hampton and Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther Part
of it self defense. That's why Carterig Woodson didn't create
Just a week he created ownership, and now one hundred
years later, something shifted. We don't need permission to publish,

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We don't need approval to teach. We don't need a
gatekeeper to validate truth. Podcasts like this very one I
didn't know. Maybe you didn't either, social media, community archives,
digital storytelling. The twos are different, but the mission is
the same. The next one hundred years of black history
won't be decided by who allow It'll be decided by

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who documents it, who protects it, and who refuses to let.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It be edited.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Ever. Again, that's the quiet power of this moment. We're
no longer asking to be included in history. We building
the record ourselves and sharing it right here on the
Black Effect Podcast Network. Cardigie Woodson once said that if
a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition.
A century later, the tradition is alive, folks, and the

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responsibility is super clear. If the first hundred years were
about survival and correction, next hundred years are about control
and continuity. Black history. Money didn't end the conversation. It
started one and the next chapter won't be written by
whoever's loudest. It'll be written by whoever shows up, tells
the truth, and leaves receipts. Make sure you share these

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twenty eight episodes of Black History Monk and keep it
locked the Starting in March, we're right back to weekly
episodes of I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Maybe you didn't either, But then no, do do