Hello, delicious friends and welcome welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast

that is not your history class, with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot,

and reader of books.

Now, I have nothing against January.

January is a mighty fine month, no harm to her.

You know, it's grand. However, this one just seemed to go on forever. It was like we were stuck

and in a robberous of despair. Like, bad things kept happening consecutively one after another in a row. And yeah,

we're finally in February. And it's Black History Month over in the US. And I thought,

you know what? Since I've started doing things as a series, like I've been doing like a month

long series on the podcast,

I thought, you know what, let's cover Black History Month. It'll be a perfectly reasonable thing

to do. And yeah, yeah, however, people are already starting to have connoption about it.

And I thought, I generally thought, if anyone was going to have an issue with me talking about

black history is because I am the whitest person you've ever seen. I am whiter than Taylor Swift's

dancing. I am whiter than a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonderbread. You know, I'm so white, I glow in

the dark, okay? I'm a very white person, okay? And so I thought, if anyone's going to have an issue, it's going to be about that, right?

I'm like, here's black history.

Talk to you by a white woman.

Like, and I thought if that was going to be the issue, that was going to be a fair point, you know.

But that was going to be it.

I didn't think that the issue was going to be me talking about black history

during Black History Month and the topic being Black History. Like I thought, you know, start on page

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