Reimagining W.E.A.L.T.H. with Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today's History Story: Wealth in Community For centuries, wealth has been forged through land dispossession, ecological plunder, and brutal exploitation, often at the expense of Black lives. But is acquiring wealth this way truly our path to liberation? Or is it time to reimagine wealth built on care and solidarity instead of violence and competition? Today’s guest has a few ideas, and so do we as we lay out a blueprint for a new kind of wealth. Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor is a writer, activist, scholar, and the founder of the National Black Cultural Information Trust. As a leading voice in the fight for reparations, she brings unparalleled insight into how redefining wealth and reclaiming culture can lead to Black liberation. To learn more about Jessica's work, visit https://www.jamaiwuyor.com/. Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people who are leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. Hosting BHY is Darren Wallace. The BHY production team includes Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, and Amber Davis. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Len Webb for PushBlack, and Lance John with Gifted Sounds edits and engineers the show. BHY’s executive producers are Julian Walker and Lilly Workneh. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, we're talking about redefining wealth with Jessica and Mitchell Awuyor on this episode of Black History Year.
0:11.0	How do you define wealth?
0:13.0	Many may say it means only lavish houses, dropping fancy cars, or wearing luxury clothes.
0:22.0	The reality is, I collective idea of wealth has been programmed by
0:26.0	harmful players to feed our greed from material needs. And yet, this has left us bankrupt
0:32.2	in more ways than one.
0:34.0	For centuries, the idea of wealth, what we think of as financial power,
0:39.0	has been shaped by colonial periods of land dispossession, ecological extraction, labor exploitation,
0:46.0	and typically at the expense of humans of a certain hue.
0:50.0	But is that kind of wealth the key to our liberation.
0:53.0	Do we really gotta step on another's neck to get ahead?
0:56.0	Or, just peer me out.
0:59.0	It's time to reimagine wealth accumulation
1:02.0	as a process is not predicated on violence and competition, but I don't know, say care or maybe even solidarity.
1:09.0	What have we reframe wealth through a lens of collective well-being. I'm Darren from
1:14.5	Puss Black and you're listening to Black History Year. Throughout history,
1:19.3	our people have been terrorized by racial capitalism, a system that oppresses the many for the profit of a few.
1:26.7	And yet, against all odds, we finesse ways to meet our material needs within, outside, and beyond this system.
1:35.0	And we've done it by keeping it alive our tradition of collectivity that we carried with us from the continent to today.
1:42.0	Now before y'all start talking about generational wealth and
1:45.1	closing the wealth gap let me just introduce today's guess. She's an
1:49.2	incredible writer, activist, and scholar who doesn't shy away from digging through the lost and
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