Is All History White History?

The Liturgists Podcast

The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

History is literally a story we tell ourselves about what happened in the past. The way we tell that story is usually influenced by the people who have cultural and political power. We heard from so many of you from around the world about how whiteness affects our perception of history. In this episode Andre Henry, Propaganda, and Nikki Blak join William Matthews to talk about those influential dynamics. They discuss how we can help others and ourselves by viewing history from several vantage points. We can look into our past to understand ourselves better and use empathy to see the richness other people's stories bring to the tapestry of history. During the month of February we will be releasing a very special project called "Black History Is American History" via daily episodes covering heroes, icons, and titans in American history. We will release them every day on a separate feed you can sign up for and to our members via the member feed. Find out more by going to theliturgists.com/blackhistory You can also join us each Sunday to talk with other liturgists around the world and meet in small groups. We also talk online everyday. To find out how to join The Liturgists to be a part of that community, visit theliturgists.com and look for the "Join The Liturgists" button.

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0:00.0	I'm excited to announce to you a very special project we've been working on.
0:03.4	It's called Black History is American History.
0:07.1	So here's what it's going to look like.
0:08.7	Every single day for the month of February, you'll get an episode featuring
0:12.5	myself, Nikki Black, propaganda, Andre Henry talking about Black history.
0:17.4	We're going to celebrate some of the greatest heroes,
0:19.3	icons and titans from American history.
0:22.2	If you want to know more about Black history, head over to the liturgist.com,
0:26.0	backslash Black history to learn more, the liturgist.com,
0:30.6	backslash Black history and join the liturgist as we have a conversation about Black history.
0:43.1	Our world is built with stories.
0:46.6	Sometimes these stories cause suffering by pulling us apart from ourselves and each other.
0:52.3	The liturgist podcast helps people love more and suffer less by pulling apart the stories that pull us apart.
0:59.3	Today's story, all history is white history.
1:09.3	I do believe that all history is white history and that the institutions that are deemed most
1:15.0	respectable are controlled by light people.
1:19.3	White scholarship has more control and has more of a say of what it means to be credible
1:26.5	of what it means to be objective.
1:28.0	Growing up in Australia, I learned a lot about Australian history in school,
1:33.2	but the things I learned were almost exclusively Australia's white history.
1:39.4	The indigenous history of Australia, which goes back 40,000 years,
1:44.3	was basically just lost over during my schooling.
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