Revising White Revisions with David Ikard
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today's Historic Story: Nearest Green
No matter what laws change or how much progress they want us to believe we’re making, racism only evolves and makes it even more necessary for us to get creative in the fight for our liberation. That means, we’ve got to take back our stories. We do that toay with Dr. David Ikard. He is a professor of African American and Diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University. An award winning author of 4 books, his work centers Black issues, social justice, and the lives of Black men and boys. But Ikard isn’t just a scholar. He’s an artist too. it’s no surprise that most of his paintings relate to black folks, social justice, self-determination, nature, and the rawness of our collective humanity, he says. Check out his work online at Ikard Gallery to see for yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | James Baldwin said, I am what time, circumstance, history have made of me, certainly, but I am also much more than that. |
| 0:14.0 | So are we all. I'm Jay from Push Black and you're listening to Black History Year. |
| 0:21.0 | So no matter what laws change or how much progress they want us to believe we're making, racism only evolves. |
| 0:29.0 | It makes it even more necessary for us to get creative in the fight for our liberation. |
| 0:36.0 | That means we've got to take back our stories, we've got to take back our narratives, but how does that look? |
| 0:42.0 | When they deliberately erase Black folks from the narratives that shape our identity and the very core of who we are, |
| 0:50.0 | what happens when we tell our stories, what possibilities arise when we revise white revisions. |
| 0:58.0 | Today's guest is going to help us understand. |
| 1:01.0 | Dr. David Atcard is a professor of African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1:10.0 | An artist and award-winning author of four books, his works centers, Black Issues, social justice, and the lives of Black men and boys. |
| 1:20.0 | But first, check out what happens when they erase our stories from history. |
| 1:28.0 | Two men, one shared destiny. |
| 1:32.0 | By the time the truth came out, one of them would be head of a billion dollar empire. |
| 1:38.0 | The other, he'd be nearly erased from history, but only nearly. |
| 1:46.0 | Because history has a way of creeping back into the present, right when we least expected. |
| 1:55.0 | Jack Daniels was a white man all over the place. |
| 1:59.0 | He worked odd jobs for everyone, from preachers to whiskey makers in Lynchburg, Tennessee. |
| 2:06.0 | When he showed an interest in distilling whiskey, he met a Black man who would change the course of Jack's life and his family's life for generations to come. |
| 2:16.0 | That man's name was nearest green. |
| 2:20.0 | Born into slavery, Nathan nearest green was a man with a unique gift. |
| 2:26.0 | He could whip up some good whiskey. |
| 2:30.0 | The skill was a remnant of alcohol production from past African cultures that was passed down to green. |
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