The Project 2025 Author Studied Black People. Here’s Some of What He Learned.

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[00:00:31]>> Welcome back. Welcome back. You are listening to Lar Daniel Favors on SiriusXM's Urban View where talk empowers and be comes action. Hey YouTube, hope you guys are doing well.

[00:00:39]We just have a brief uh concluding segment today. We have had some riveting conversations this morning. Uh we had Glenda Carr on from Higher Heights uh talking with us about the political realities of this day. And as we were ending our conversation with Glenda Carr and preparing to welcome in Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson, a conversation we just ended, uh we learned that the state of Virginia's Supreme Court, despite the fact that Virginia voters overwhelmingly came out to support their redistricting effort, uh the state of Virginia Supreme Court literally just decided that in a 4 to3 decision that the yeah, those those maps were unlawful. And so what we now have and because what we also saw happening last night in Tennessee uh was a situation where basically in the state of Tennessee, they took the city of Memphis, a city that is 60% black, and essentially cracked it into three different districts, eviscerating one of the the congressional districts, the only black uh congressional district in that state, congressional district 9.

[00:01:41]they took that seat away and cracked the remaining uh the the community into three separate districts. And so it's been a real it's been a rough time. It's been a rough time. It's been a challenging moment in in in black political life and reality. And and I was talking with Representative Pearson and with some of the callers after and and we recognize that we are dealing with people who are largely psychopaths.

[00:02:02]Uh when you're talking about a white voting populace that has been willing to go without their medical needs met, without their their education needs met, without their employment needs met, without their housing, when you are dealing with a population of people who are so committed to white narcissism as narcissists that over the centuries they have become psychopathically pathized such that they are willing to go without everything in order for us to suffer.

[00:02:33]you realize what a very precarious situation we're in. And I have been saying this and I'm going to continue to say with my full chest, they're going for slavery. They're not going to establish all the elements you need for slavery and stop at Jim Crow. They're going for slavery. There were images of the legislators in the state of Tennessee smiling gleefully laughing, giggling about the fact that they had been able to do this to nullify, eradicate black political power. 60 plus years we have been using a framework of trying to convince them, appeal to them, navigate around them, uh engage with them. 60 plus years we have been doing this work to try to convince them that they too will be better off if they allow for all of us to have rights and they have largely said as a class no we we heard what you said and we've decided no we'd rather go with them similar to what their exactly what their ancestors have done they are they're living their ancestors wildest dreams and so while we are you know navigating that and it's a heavy heavy time obviously we also have Mother's Day coming up and and Mother's Day this And happy Mother's Day to all of you who are mothers, who have the mother energy, who are mothering people right now. And today, I want us to take a listen to a clip uh from I read honey.

[00:03:46]I R E A D H U N E Y. I just found this person. Um she's brilliant and and is doing some amazing things. But she did the work of pulling Kevin Roberts, who's the head of the Heritage Foundation, the organization that created uh Project 2025. She pulled his dissertation, she pulled his thesis because while he got his his area of focus was history, his area of emphasis was in various aspects of looking at family and kinship networks within African-American enslaved communities in Virginia and and and two very two periods that kind of have an overlap between the mid 1700s and the mid 1800s. Now, obviously, it is quite nefarious to make the focus of your study, the people that you're studying, um, the objects of your scorn, and then taking what you've learned about them, and using that infusing into policy to undermine them. But what he studied was insightful. What he wrote, for those of you who have read the dissertation, read the thesis, insightful. And I want you all to take a listen to this clip because I read honey decided to explain to all of us what is contained in these writings. I encourage you to pull the writings. I haven't completed reading them myself. I've just begun the one. But I encourage you to read it because when someone and I heard some people say, I'm not going to say who it was. I heard some people say recently that they were doubting why anyone would have a master's or a PhD or a bachelor's in African-American studies. And they were having this conversation on air at the same time they were talking about Kevin Roberts who got his dissertation studying black people and was able to use that information to completely create an architectural framework that destroyed all the rights that we had. And so it was just curious to me that these two black people were questioning why anyone would want to have this degree as someone who holds this degree. I take these conversations personally and and particularly when the person who was able to understand all of our pressure points because he studied us was able to fuel it into policy to destroy us.

[00:05:35]Imagine if more of us spent time studying us and figuring out how to use our history and knowledge about who we are as a people to benefit us. Imagine.

[00:05:43]But no, we're going to have conversations about whether or not the degree is worth anything. Do with that what you will. But pay attention to this conversation that I read Honey shares with us. And at a certain point, I'm gonna pause the video so we can unpack just a little bit. We only have a few minutes, so we won't be taking any more calls. But take a listen to I read Honey as I read Honey reads the room.

[00:06:01]I've been seeing this go around. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, got a PhD in African-American history and then used it to author Project 2025 and dismantle civil rights.

[00:06:12]Y'all know that sent me down a rabbit hole, right? Y'all want to come? Come on.

[00:06:18]I said, "There's no way this man has a degree in African-American history.

[00:06:22]Learn the things that he learned about um African-Americans, about the formerly enslaved, and come out the megalomaniac that he is today." Um, and I saw in his Wikipedia that his degree is not in African-American history. His degree is in history. Now, he has what we would call a concentration.

[00:06:41]Wikipedia says main interest in African-American history. Um, for those people with multiple degrees, you know that you can choose an area with maybe one or two disciplines. So, it wasn't his main focus per se, but in looking at his Wikipedia, you know, I found his thesis and I found his uh dissertation.

[00:07:02]When he got his master of arts in history, he wrote his thesis on African Virginia extended kin, the prevalence of West African family forms among slaves in Virginia, 1740 to 1870. For his dissertation, he did slaves and slavery in Louisiana, the evolution of Atlantic World Identity, 1791 to 1831.

[00:07:26]You know, you know, I took notes. Now in his master's thesis he spoke about um how the extended family extended kin was a way to resist right um he talked about the centrality of that he spoke about the high status and influence of women he said it was metrophocal >> and that without these enslaved people being metrophocal they wouldn't have been able to see any success when it came to freeing themselves. M >> do y'all if you're not picking up what I'm putting down the women without the women things wouldn't have changed or moved that's what he means in this paper he also talked about the flexible systems of descent meaning family right um it wasn't just everything was through the father it was like oh that's my cousin them oh that's auntie them like how extended kin played a central role in the enslaved community and how it helped them to resist community. He learned that community and women were key central focuses of the enslaved community that led to their freedom.

[00:08:42]>> Now, let's pause here for just a second.

[00:08:43]Let's pause here for just a second. And the reason I want to pause here for just a second is because we're in a time right now where we have a lot of of people in our community who believe that the the man head of the household framing is the the organic sort of framing for all families. That is not true. What we know is that that has never been true for us. We are, as you said here, we have an the extended kinship understanding. We understand that there is a role for women to play in leadership decisions and positioning.

[00:09:09]And without a metro focal focus, the black communities that were able to free themselves are not able to free themselves. When black women are not in positions of power, when the needs of community are not centered, the black community, historically, according to the man who studied us so well, he understood how to create systems that were going to destroy us. We would not be free were it not for our focus and our appreciation for the way that women's leadership is absolutely necessary. It's Mother's Day weekend. We just had all our rights taken away when it comes to voting. They're re they're bringing slavery back. kind of feels like a good time to remind ourselves of the centrality of black women historically. Not to say that there is not a role for black men. Of course, there's a role for black men. That community includes black men. It includes black women. It includes those of us who who are beyond any of those paradigms. But the focus for him on women is important because they have spent decades trying to convince all of us that a man is the natural leader and should sit at the head of the household when that has never been something that function for us. We have ealitarian recognition that there is dualities.

[00:10:21]It's why I say mother father god. We don't do well when it's just one person at the top. Particularly when that one person at the top is also genderized in a way that makes them believe that they have supreme power over everybody else.

[00:10:35]When women are empowered, they don't rule that way. That's why Joel Webbon, that white Christian nationalist pastor, said that women could white women could not vote in their white Christian nationalists in America because the way women vote, they think about community.

[00:10:47]The way women are socialized, whether it's nurture, nature, whatever the the way women are socialized is socialized to think about community.

[00:10:55]Let's go back to the video because it's Mother's Day. These people are taking rights left, right, and center. It's time to remember why our superpowers are what our superpowers were. Let's hear the rest of the video. In his uh dissertation, he focused the main core argument, there were a couple of them, but a couple the only two I want to focus on is that how enslaved people in Louisiana shaped their world by actively resisting. That's what he learned. He also learned that the enslaved use the Catholic Church um the rights of the Catholic Church, market gatherings, uh legal petitions to build community and push back against slavery. Let's go back to that market gatherings. To me, that sounds like a cookout.

[00:11:40]>> It seems like they would gather together and plan and organize, which means everybody wasn't invited to the cookout, excuse me, market gathering >> in order for things to get better.

[00:11:52]everybody wasn't invited to the market gathering.

[00:11:56]Now, reading these two papers and and seeing how he governs as the president of project of heritage foundation who pushes project 2025 that the dichotomy of it is mindblowing because it's like the exact opposite. Notes took them. So in project 2025 they say that the traditional nuclear family is normal.

[00:12:18]But in his own goddamn research he found that when the community is metrophocal when the women are running it and when there is extended ken community helping as well.

[00:12:33]>> They saw change. They saw revolution.

[00:12:37]Maybe that's why they forcing these traditional nuclear family norms because they know what community can do.

[00:12:45]>> All right. Now, I'm not going to go over all of it. Not going to go over all of it. But another thing that project 2025 purports is that DEI oh it's you know oh they're they're skeptical of DEI but in his own research cultural agency and black community led to resilience that is central to American h not African American history diversity helps drive the country forward >> that's why we don't have healthcare Nope. Different different video. After going down that rabbit hole, um it was never to counter what my fellow content creators are saying. It it it it went a different route. After I read both those papers and I and I understand how white supremacy works, I realized that this man has researched where the power in the black community lies.

[00:13:38]>> Come on.

[00:13:39]>> He understands that it lies with women.

[00:13:40]He has from the 1700s at the start of his paper to the early 1800s to the late 1800s in his dissertation he has tracked the power of black women when it comes to liberation and how you know we have been the the the drivers of it. So now as a black woman I'm like oh okay he got all the ingredients. Yeah. So I'm trying to see how he's going to try to uh use the organization to chip away at that power. But you can have all the ingredients. That don't ever mean you going to taste the sauce.

[00:14:12]>> Come on. Three minutes.

[00:14:13]>> Come on.

[00:14:15]And so with that, it's important for us as I try to stop this screen share. I wanted to share that. Happy Mother's Day weekend. Happy Mother's Day weekend. I know some of y'all are probably a little offended. Deal with your ancestors in the history. I didn't make the rules and I didn't study this He did and he noted it. And it's true. Because when women are in leadership positions, the entire community gets their needs met.

[00:14:35]We are seeing right now what the world looks like when only men are in charge of leadership decisions. Look at how America is wreaking havoc with all of its men in power blowing up people in the Caribbean. Blowing up people in the blowing up people the WHOLE PLANET JUST BOMBS BOMB BOOM CRASH CRASH CRASH LIKE LITTLE BOYS PLAYING WITH tonker trucks and G.I. Joe figures. This man studied the black community and learned that the most successful components of liberation type activities happened when women were in leadership positions. You can argue with your moms. You can argue with your daddy. You can argue with whoever you want to argue with. Don't you argue with the ancestors. They did it. When women are in power, resistance works. When women are in positions of leadership, community is able to thrive. Not to say that there is no space for men to be in leadership, but we're seeing the realities of an all men leadership creation right now. It's imbalanced at best. And so on this Mother's Day, as these psychopathic white narcissists are doing everything they can successfully to return us back to enslavement, and when project 2025 focuses on a nuclear family structure with men in power, they're not just doing it because they like people with penises. They're doing it because if women have equitable access to power, things have to get shared. Things have to be equitable. The community gets its needs met. If I'm a ass wealthy white man who doesn't want nobody but me to have power, the last thing I would want is a world where women have equity. And it's one of the reasons why project 2025 focuses on ending all programs for for women, ending all programs for people of color, ending all programs except for the communities that are going to have white nationalist framings and have men at the head of households who are the only ones able to vote on behalf of that community and that family. Do with the information what you will. Kevin Roberts studied how black people were able to successfully resist. And what they noted was that our sense of community and our ability to be welcoming to women in positions of power play fundamental roles. Let's hold on to those lessons and think about how they should be showing up now. They're bringing slavery back. My, what an important time for us to think about how we return to our sources of power and refuse to give into these manipulations that are designed to separate us not just from who we truly are, but separate us from community. I love you all. Have a phenomenal weekend. God bless you.

[00:16:55]Happy Mother's Day to every single one of you. We're not just going to be all right, y'all. We going to thrive because we're going to do this work together.

[00:17:00]Figure out how your purpose aligns with the needs of our people. Walk in with your back straight and find something you can do this