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What's Ray Saying?

WRS Classic: An Imaginary Past

What's Ray Saying?

Ray Christian

Blackhistory, Storyteller, Blackculture, History, Story, Storytelling, Arts, Slam, Africanamerican

5625 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ray looks at the origins of a false narrative of Black American history, its racist origins, the founder of revisionist history regarding the Civil War and Reconstruction, along with its influence on American society today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to a throwback edition of What's Ray Singh, recorded during the early development of the show.

0:06.4

If it sounds different, well, I used to do this whole damn thing on my own.

0:11.7

I've got a bigger team now, but these early episodes were made with love and are absolutely worth listening to.

0:18.8

Enjoy the show.

0:20.8

You're listening to What's Ray Saying the podcast.

0:26.7

Now, I'm speaking primarily from my part of the country where I was born in Rio,

0:31.3

the southern United States and Richmond, Virginia.

0:36.4

In the years I spent stationed in the South during my military careers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and spending some time in every other remaining Southern state, I have concluded there is the existence of a long-standing and dangerous nostalgia for the past that some Americans long for.

1:03.0

In America where only the concerns of the few were considered worthy of consideration. A history not founded and accepted historical research, but grounded in an attitude supported by fiction.

1:21.6

It was a whole lot better in the past when the colors accepted their place and everyone just got along,

1:31.7

I think we need to return to those times. I mean, yeah, it was a whole lot better of the past

1:39.3

when the blacks just accepted their place and everyone just got along. I mean, we need to return to those times.

1:45.3

I mean, just the other day, I was speaking to the Ray, and I said,

1:47.6

Hey, Ray, how's it going, brother?

1:48.9

And he got all excited and everything.

1:50.6

I said, man, just calm down.

1:53.9

What's Ray saying?

1:57.0

What's racing?

1:59.5

What's racing? What's racing? What's racing?

2:02.3

What's racing?

2:06.0

From the source of all black knowledge, excited by the growth of my newly hatched baby chicks,

2:13.3

finalizing the syllabus for my upcoming semester with a podcast that has no sponsor,

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