White Supremacy in Georgia is pissed. The GOP is still fuming over the state turning Blue due in large part to Black People voting, and now is doing everything in their power to undermine the Black vote as punishment and prevention from us gaining legislative power. The level of ruthlessness is real, but Dr. Venus has some thoughts and comes at this discussion from a different angle than you may hear elsewhere.
This week, she shares the historical context of White Supremacy creating power structures to keep the marginalized from voting and why it's important to get educated so we aren't stuck in a caste system seven generations deep. She talks about why becoming a Black Woman Billionaire is a revolutionary act, one that creates infrastructures that allow us to fight for OUR interests and start to change the game in our favor. We have to fight, but they aren't playing fair. In order to beat them at their own game, we need to get strategic and head White Supremacy off at the pass for upcoming elections. If we don't think in terms of building in the future, we will always live at the effect of White Supremacy. Dr. Venus isn't okay with that, and she is betting you aren't as well.
Key Takeaways:
[3:26] We showed up and showed out in Georgia, and turned the state Blue. This made the GOP mad, and when White Men get mad, they create laws. This is how they fight.
[5:12] Dr. Venus gives historical context in which White people suppressed Black Men and Women and poor Whites from voting. These included both blatant and subversive tactics including violence, intimidation, literacy tests, the Grandfather Clause, purging them off the registry, poll tax, and charging Black Men and Women for petty crimes which stripped their rights to vote.
[10:07] White Supremacy using its power to keep marginalized people down is not new. When we see the GOP in Georgia leading the way to put laws in place to make it really hard to vote, it triggers a historical wound.
[10:57] The way America is structured is designed to keep people who have big money in, and to keep the middle and lower class out and away from having any type of power.
[13:02] Money isn't the problem. It's the structures in place that keep getting funded to keep those structures in place. When we get Black Women Billionaires that can put money towards our movement, it changes the power dynamic and gives us the opportunity to fund politicians, judges, and Congress members that have our interests in mind. This is how we see real change for generations to come. No amount of marching is the same as picking your candidates with ease and fighting money with money.
[17:08] Dr. Venus has switched her focus from racism to now focusing on White Supremacy, and it's so clear. We've been fighting them on fairness, but it's about money, capital, and infrastructure. Our ancestors knew how to navigate this because they knew the self-centeredness around White Supremacy, but we are now in our own time of fighting the 21st-century version of Jim Crow.
[22:01] Let's get committed to creating Black Women Billionaires who really are part of the solution so the funding is built-in and not piecemealed together.
[25:01] If we do not start funding our own power structures, they will have us picking cotton the 21st century way. Dr. Venus isn't saying let's be shady. Let's be strategic. We have to view this as a business. It takes money to fund your interest and empower what you value. If we think in terms of infrastructure, being a Black Woman Billionaire becomes a revolutionary act. The money part is just the fuel.
[26:30] We aren't dealing with fairness, we are dealing with who has the biggest microphone, and who can fund it.
[30:08] White Supremacy thinks so little of us that it would never dawn on them that we could create our super PACs and support registration and elections that have our interests at heart. That's fine, let them doubt us.
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