Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about other ways that white slave masters were
Speaker 1: dehumanized enslaved black people in those slavery periods. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. Have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of the whistle walk or the whistling walk? First of all,
Speaker 1: can you even whistle? I could do a little sign signed,
Speaker 1: but dig it. The way the plantations were structured at
Speaker 1: that time, the kitchens were detached from the main house,
Speaker 1: So those enslaved Africans were cooking the kitchen building, but
Speaker 1: after the food was prepared, they need to carry it
Speaker 1: from the hitching building to the main building where the
Speaker 1: masters were. Because you gotta understand, sometimes the enslaved Africans
Speaker 1: that didn't meet their daily quota and got flogged. Oh,
Speaker 1: they were spitting their masters food when they was taking it.
Speaker 1: So to ensure that they didn't eat the food or
Speaker 1: spit on the food while they were bringing it to
Speaker 1: the dining area, they were forced to whistle. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: were forced to sing. Because you cannot chew and eat
Speaker 1: food when you're singing in whistling. Try go ahead, as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, don't even waste your time, because
Speaker 1: it is impossible. I've tried, and I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: know why these overseers were nervous because they were only
Speaker 1: feeding the enslaved Africans once a day, and the food
Speaker 1: they were feeding them didn't smell nor taste like the
Speaker 1: food they were being served. The whistle walk was also
Speaker 1: used as a device for slave masters to use, so
Speaker 1: they knew when to stop talking. You know, when me
Speaker 1: and my guests are here having a very racist conversation
Speaker 1: that we wouldn't dare want our enslaved property to hear,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about selling them off to different plantations
Speaker 1: and dividing and destroying families for generations. Well no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we don't want our enslaved property privy to that information.
Speaker 1: So we'll hear them when they're whistling, and we'll hear
Speaker 1: them when they're singing it, and we'll stop this conversation, right,
Speaker 1: John Brown. Now, sometimes the slave masters just used the
Speaker 1: whistle walks as form of sheer entertainment. Either way, it
Speaker 1: was the humanizing it's stripped as of who we were.
Speaker 1: To say you don't trust us enough to eat your
Speaker 1: food or spit in it as we've already prepared said
Speaker 1: food is insulting and just another way that our people
Speaker 1: were treated in those heinous enslaved periods. Now take that
Speaker 1: to school to work with you. Because I didn't know,
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't either,