The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: What Black History Month Was Meant to Correct

Episode Date: February 22, 2026

Black History Month didn't start as a celebration. B Daht explains what the historybooks were getting wrong long before February ever became a thing.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Hans Charles. I'm Minilick Lemoombo. Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What Black History Month was meant to correct. Welcome back, No, at All's, 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, BDOT, and for the final seven episodes of Black History Month,

we reopening some case files. That's right. Let's start here, because Black History Month didn't happen because America suddenly got curious. I told you at the beginning of the season, it happened because the story was being told wrong, much like in 2026. 100 years ago in 1926, Carter G. Woodson looked at America's textbooks and realized

something very dangerous. Black folks was either invisible or only being mentioned when something went wrong. So he opened up a case file on history itself, and that's what we're going to do for these last seven episodes. We reopening them. And what I have for you to kick off the episode are

three of the most useless facts you'll never need, not a day in life, about black History Month. Up first, of course you know Black History Month started as Negro History Week 100 years ago this year, but it wasn't to celebrate. It was to correct. Your second useless fact, Carter G. Woodson believed that if black history was not taught accurately, racism would always feel logical to the people that benefited from it most. He literally said that. He wrote it down. We got receipts. And your third useless fact is he never wanted a special month.

forever. Carter G. Woodson wanted the truth taught everywhere, every day. And now that I've given you those three useless facts, I asked, do you know what was needed? Because I didn't. Here's the uncomfortable truth. A lot of American history isn't missing information. It's missing honesty. Slavery gets softened. Reconstruction gets rushed. Resistance gets labeled as riots. Success gets detached from black people and handed to the system. That wasn't accidental. Look, after slavery ended, the biggest threat wasn't black poverty. It was black progress.

Black people voting. Black people holding office. Black people owning land. Building schools. Creating wealth. So the story had to change. If you rewrite the past, you can control the future. And that's why myths were created.

The Civil War wasn't about slavery. Four. Reconstruction failed because black people weren't ready. But how about? Integration. fixed everything. Or this is the most damning one. Why are you bringing up hundreds of years ago?

We're past all that now. Each one of those phrases removes responsibility. Each one makes inequality sound natural. Each one avoid saying, You know we did this on purpose. And Carter G. Woodson saw it happening 100 years ago in real time. Carter G. Woodson said, if a people are thought they have no history, they'll accept whatever position they're given.

So Black History Month wasn't about pride. It was about defense. Defense against the laws. Defense against erasure. Defense against a future built on edited facts. And here we are. A hundred years later in 2026, still arguing over what gets taught, who gets centered. And while the truth makes people uncomfortable.

That tells you everything you need to know. The resistance to black history ain't about the past. It's about the power in the present. Carter G. Woodson didn't create a month. He created a warning. If you don't correct the story, the lie becomes the tradition. Look, Black History Month exists because the record was never set straight. And this final week ain't about add new facts.

It's about fixing the ones that we were already given. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. Over the last couple years, didn't we learn that the folding chair was invented by black people because of what happened in Alabama? This Black History Month, the podcast Selective Ignorance with Mandy B, It impacts black history and culture with comedy, clarity, and conversations that shake the status quo. The Crown Act in New York was signed in July of 2019, and that is a bill that was passed to prohibit discrimination based on hair styles associated with race.

To hear this and more, listen to Selective Ignorance with Mandy B from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Bowen-Yang. And I'm Matt Rogers. During this season of the Two Guys' Five Rings podcast, and the lead-up to the Milan Cortina, 2026 Winter Olympic Games. We've been joined by some of our friends. Hi, Bob, hi Matt. Hey, Elmo.

Hey, Matt. Hey, Bowen. Hi, Cookie. Hi. Now, the Winter Olympic Games are underway, and we are in Italy to give you experiences from our hearts to your ears. Listen to two guys, five rings on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. What if mind control is real?

If you get control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, aka neurolinguistic programming.

Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. And at Morehouse College, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the Board of Trustees, including Martin Luther King's Senior. It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles.

I'm in a little like Lamouba. Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.