IDKMYDE: The Bananas Weren’t the Problem
from I Didn’t Know, Maybe You Didn’t Either! Hosted by The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
In the 1930s, early standardized tests claimed Black children scored lower because they supposedly ate too many bananas. B Daht exposes how racist "science" was baked into modern testing—and how those lies still shape education today.
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