Slavemasters In Your Neighborhood with Clint Smith (May 2021)

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The debates over U.S. monuments that celebrate Confederate generals, soldiers, and politicians show just how pervasive slavery's legacy is - and how it continues to impact the way Black America moves and exists in the world today. In May 2021, Jay sat down with author/poet Clint Smith to discuss this and more on this episode of the Best of Black History Year. __________________________ 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 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 Jay (2020-2023) and Darren Wallace (2024). The BHY production team includes Jareyah Bradley and Brooke Brown. 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, a look at the slave masters in your neighborhood on the best of black history here.
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0:40.0	In 2021 the debates over US monuments that celebrate Confederate generals, soldiers, and politicians was very intense in America.
0:51.0	And it continues to impact the way that black people move and exist in the world today.
0:56.7	In May of that year, Jay sat down with author and award-winning poet Clint Smith to discuss this situation and more on the best of Black History
1:07.6	year.
1:08.6	Part of the insidiousness of white supremacy is that it takes empirical statements and turns them into ideological ones.
1:18.0	So you and I say the Civil War was fought over slavery and slavery was the cause of the civil war. Somebody can come to me and I've experienced this. Somebody's like man Clint like you're trying to indoctrinate students with your ideological views, with your politics.
1:33.7	And I'm like, that statement's not a political one.
1:36.4	It's an empirical one.
1:37.3	It's one that's based on evidence, right?
1:39.4	But that's part of how racism and white supremacy
1:42.2	attempts to sort of twist history and make you feel as if saying something
1:46.7	that is true is reflective of a certain type of politics rather than history.
1:57.2	Understanding our history is essential to the progress of our community,
2:01.9	but history in all ways interpreted with neutrality. The way
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