Dr. Venus is not arguing over if racism is real. She's not trippin' about the first 100 days of the Biden/Harris administration. Nor does she care who's right or wrong in terms of social change.
Here is what she has given her life to empowering Black Women to win.
This week, Dr. Venus breaks it down as an identity theorist on why we need to put our attention on outsmarting White Supremacist structures in service of the economic emancipation of Our People.
We need to put our focus less on feelings and more on strategy.
If you keep playing checkers when your opponent is playing chess you are bound to lose. Can we really outsmart them? Yes, but it's going to take some work, and we have to be committed to winning. White Supremacy is predictable, and once we create our own self-sustaining ecosystem, we could use their model to create one of our own. Once we do, we would never have to go to White people for money, again. Going forward, we're playing chess — and playing to win. You are invited to do the same.
Key Takeaways:
[5:29] Dr. Venus takes this discussion on as an identity theorist. Until she took on understanding White Supremacy as a historical practice, she didn't know EVERYTHING in America was modeled after the institution of slavery in North America. Slavery was bigger business than railroads for North America, and now it exists in the fabric of every structure, including those that are invisible and not as obvious until you really look at them.
[9:18] Dr. Venus is going beyond the history of cotton picking and really examining the infrastructures that made it possible such as the buying, selling, and trading.
[11:05] Black culture gets packaged and commodified as hip, cool, and trendy and then gets pushed back to Black people to buy. We take something, crush it and take it to the next level, and that becomes something that White Supremacist structures sell back to us. For example, gangster rap was bought by more White than Black young people. That which is illicit — aka Black — becomes something that can be sold.
[16:12] White Supremacy is invisible but very present in everything from car, home, and business loans, even how the TV portrays a Black Woman speaking or dressing. There is an investment in how they dehumanize us and make profits off our labor to justify killing us.
[20:15] When you are a corporation and not an individual, there are benefits including tax write-offs, legal advantages, and the ability to get money based on the idea of a potential return. The rich get richer, and this keeps the structure of White Supremacy even more rooted for years to come. Even the banks we have now don't see us as a viable option to loan money out because we are Black.
[22:09] In terms of cultural currency, Black people set the tone and trends. We have it on lock. White people turn it into money, fashion, comedy and they have been doing so for the history of time, but, what if we modeled their structures for our own gain? Think about it. If we move our fight from protests about social justice to capitalism, we can start to organize ourselves around a product built for Black Women-owned by Black Women and really change the game. And if we make that product and system repeatable for other Black Women to succeed, we can monetize in years and not decades.
[28:40] Dr. Venus is out to infiltrate and to outsmart White Supremacist structures. They think we are stupid, dumb, and lazy. Let them. While they are doing their thing, Dr. Venus is building out an ecosystem where Black Women creators will get PAID instead of giving out their content for free.
[29:45] With $1.4 trillion in buying power, we can do whatever we want. We can flip that script in service of ourselves and that takes us from slave to master, from victim to owner.
[34:01] They will try to burn down everything we do just to stay in power, but they can't burn down a digital community. Since the technology Dr. Venus is creating goes by the rules of capitalism, we're good.
[35:01] Think of this less as a personal thing and more of a structural thing. It's easy to be in your feelings, but this is where we need to focus on the money and not the shock value of the news.
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