Who Taught
You That?
A thoughtful podcast about the beliefs we inherit — and the systems that handed them to us. Every episode takes one idea we were taught to accept as true, and asks the question underneath it.
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What if the beliefs you inherited were never truly your own?
Who Taught You That? explores the decolonization of the mind through conversations about history, identity, faith, language, education, culture, race, and freedom.
Most of us were taught to treat certain ideas as simply true. That some ways of knowing are rigorous and others are “cultural.” That some languages sound intelligent and others sound broken. That some histories deserve to be remembered while others are folklore. Those categories were not discovered. They were assigned — by schools, churches, universities, and whoever controlled the curriculum.
Each episode examines one of those inherited beliefs, asks who benefited from it, and looks at what it costs to keep carrying it. The conversation is honest but never an attack — not on faith, not on family, not on anyone still inside a system they did not design. Questioning does not always destroy what we value. Sometimes it removes the fear from it.
Because before accepting an idea as truth, there is one question worth asking first: who taught you that?
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Season One
Why I Started Asking Questions
The personal journey that led to questioning inherited ideas about faith, identity, history, culture, and freedom — and the courage it takes to examine the stories that shaped us.
Are All Your Thoughts Really Your Own?
How beliefs about intelligence, language, culture, identity, success, beauty, faith, and human worth get shaped by family, schools, religious institutions, media, and colonial history — with a simple five-question thought audit.
This Is Not an Attack on Faith or Religion
The line between faith and religion — how colonial power used belief to convince people to abandon their languages, traditions, names, and ancestors, and what our inherited beliefs actually produce.
The Language We Were Taught to Be Ashamed Of
How language became a ranking system, and who the ranking serves. Shame as an inheritance, the difference between fluency and belonging, and what returns when you take a language back.
Who Decides What Counts as Knowledge?
How education became one of the most effective tools of colonial power, and how the classroom quietly taught obedience while calling it learning. The problem is not multilingualism — it is hierarchy.
Whose History Do We Remember?
How earlier historians wrote Haitian heroes out of their own revolution — and how a new generation of scholars is putting them back.
Beauty, Race, and the Invention of Worth
Colorism, Eurocentric beauty standards, hair, skin tone, facial features, and the internalized shame they produce. Who taught us what beauty was supposed to look like?
When Tradition Becomes a Chain
The difference between honoring a tradition and letting it stop you from growing. When does an inheritance deserve respect — and when does it need to be questioned?
Can We Heal Without Hating Our Ancestors?
Inherited trauma, family beliefs, and religious conditioning — and the responsibility to choose what we carry forward. How do we honor our ancestors without repeating everything they inherited?
What Does Mental Liberation Look Like?
The season closes with practical ways to reflect, question, heal, and reclaim identity. What does freedom look like in the way we think, speak, believe, and define ourselves?
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