@adivunsolicited: Having a platform isn't the same as having perspective. Recently, Da'Vinchi sat down with Cam Newton and said some things about Black Americans, slavery, and race in this country that deserve a closer look. In this video I break it down through critical theory, the study of how power, media, and social hierarchy operate. What I cover: 🔹 Racial capitalism: Why "everyone practiced slavery" flattens a system that was hereditary, racialized, and built for profit, and why its effects (Black Codes, redlining, wealth denial) are still running today. 🔹 Ethnic distancing: What it means when someone raised and built in America steps outside the identity of "Americans" to signal "I'm not like them." 🔹 Racial buffering: How the U.S. racial order can hold up some Black immigrants as proof that the problem with Black Americans is cultural, not structural 🔹 The politics of respectability: Why adopting dominant behaviors to earn acceptance doesn't dismantle the system. 🔹 The immigration history: Before 1965, U.S. immigration law favored northern Europeans. The Civil Rights Movement, led by Black Americans, helped create the climate for the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which opened the door to the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. 🔹 The prison myth: The idea that states plan prisons based on third-grade reading scores is a talking point that keeps circulating. Literacy and incarceration are connected, but because poverty and underfunded schools drive both, not because anyone is building cells off a test score. White supremacist talking points are usually built on lies, and they spread because they sound like common sense. If you don't know the history, you have nothing to check them against. And when you distance yourself from the group a talking point targets, it's easy to repeat it without asking where it came from. This isn't about attacking anyone from the diaspora. Solidarity across the diaspora starts with knowing the history, and it means holding the people holding the microphone to a higher standard. 📚 Reading list The frameworks: • Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Cedric J. Robinson (racial capitalism) • Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities, Mary C. Waters (ethnic distancing and how West Indian immigrants navigate U.S. race) • Racism without Racists, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (how the U.S. racial order operates and sustains itself) • Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (the politics of respectability) #davinchi #BlackTikTok #criticaltheory #haitiantiktok #BlackHistory

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