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In part 2, we discuss the deeper mechanisms of how African Wildlife Conservation operates in Africa including the ecological factors. We dig into the neo-colonist components of how indigenous rights are co-opted to pit Africans against each other. We also discuss the necessary means to empower indigenous Africans to struggle to regain their land.  Dr. Aby Sène-Harper is a faculty of Parks and Conservation Area Management. She is a trained interdisciplinary environmental social researcher whose work advances socially and ecologically just approaches to managing public lands, natural and cultural resources in the US and in Africa. Her research lies at the intersections of parks and protected area governance, livelihoods, nature-based tourism, and Race and nature. Support Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths Land grabs and conservation propaganda https://africasacountry.com/2022/06/the-propaganda-of-biodiversity-conservation Western Nonprofits Are Trampling Over Africans’ Rights and Land https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/01/western-nonprofits-african-rights-land/ THE RED DEAL: INDIGENOUS ACTION TO SAVE OUR EARTH https://www.commonnotions.org/the-red-deal https://www.survivalinternational.org/

We sit down with Dr. Aby L. Sène to discuss African wildlife conservation as it's practiced by the west in Africa. Sène covers how African Wildlife conservation is another extension of European colonialism including militarization, enclosure, and primitive accusation. Essentially conservation serves as a front for colonialism.  Dr. Aby Sène-Harper is a faculty of Parks and Conservation Area Management. She is a trained interdisciplinary environmental social researcher whose work advances socially and ecologically just approaches to managing public lands, natural and cultural resources in the US and in Africa. Her research lies at the intersections of parks and protected area governance, livelihoods, nature-based tourism, and Race and nature.  Support Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths Land grabs and conservation propaganda https://africasacountry.com/2022/06/the-propaganda-of-biodiversity-conservation Western Nonprofits Are Trampling Over Africans’ Rights and Land https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/01/western-nonprofits-african-rights-land/ THE RED DEAL: INDIGENOUS ACTION TO SAVE OUR EARTH https://www.commonnotions.org/the-red-deal https://www.survivalinternational.org/  

We're taking a month off due to scheduling but we'll be back in July. Until then we want to leave you with this episode, “What’s Africa Got to Do with Me? This myth corresponds with some of the new episodes we have coming up so we thought this would be a good time to re-air it. Enjoy! Original description "Regardless of how one identifies, the facts are clear that the state of Africa has a tremendous impact on our daily lives. The resources stolen from Africa are sold as products in America, the exploitation of Africa funds the system that oppresses us in America, both of the American ghetto and African communities operate as neo-colonies for extraction, and the entire African Diaspora is sold myths of propaganda about each other. We establish these connections by digging into the book "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by activist-scholar Walter Rodney. This episode is premiering on the day that would have been his 79th birthday. March 23rd, Is also our one-year anniversary as a podcast. Thank you to all of our supporters."

In part 2 of the myth Rooting for Everybody Black (Pt.3 overall of the Myth of Trickle Down Blackness), we continue our talk with Georgetown University Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, about his new book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). This episode picks up right where we left off. Continuing with elite capture as our philosophical lens, we discuss the pitfalls of two additional popular phrases "All Skin Folk Ain't Kinfolk" and "Crabs in a Barrel." We also discuss if elite capture helps produce "bad people."  Book https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture Please support our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths      

In this episode, we talk with Georgetown University Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, about his new book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). In early 2021 we interviewed Taiwo about his essay of a similar name (Identity Politics and Elite Capture) to debunk the myth of trickle-down blackness --the concept that if a select group of Black people can gain access to elite spaces then the fruits of that access will magically trickle down to the masses of Black people. Pt. 1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-myth-of-trickle-down-blackness-w-ol%C3%BAf%E1%BA%B9-mi-o-t%C3%A1%C3%ADw%C3%B2/id1504205689?i=1000505786323 This episode picks up as part two of that conversation. With elite capture as our philosophical lens, we discuss the pitfalls of popular phrases like "Rooting For Everybody Black" and "All Skin Folk Ain't Kinfolk" that obscure class differences among Black people and allow a faux racial solidarity to dilute our politics. We also discuss if class suicide can weaken the negative impact of elite capture. Book https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture Please support our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths    

In this episode 2, we continue to cover the fallacies of the popular phrase "The System is Broken" in our discussion with Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Knox College, Dr. Yannick Marshall, about his article "A Short Dictionary of Liberal Language on Policing." We discuss the following terms: Broken, begin to, both sides, change, deterrence, feared for his life, flawed or imperfect, healing, held accountable, legacy, know his heart, peace/peaceful, reform, supposed to, and tragic. We discuss the state and how it creates and absolves systems for white capital. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/25/a-short-dictionary-of-liberal-language-on-policing Support our patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths

In this episode, we cover the fallacies of the popular phrase "The System is Broken" by discussing an article written by Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Knox College, Dr. Yannick Marshall, entitled "A Short Dictionary of Liberal Language on Policing." We discuss the following terms: Broken, begin to, both sides, change, deterrence, feared for his life, flawed or imperfect, healing, held accountable, legacy, know his heart, peace/peaceful, reform, supposed to, and tragic. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/25/a-short-dictionary-of-liberal-language-on-policing Support our patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths

For part two, we continue our interview with the political prisoner, John Naeem Trotter. He gives further insight into the Indiana prisoners' rebellion of '85 and the counterinsurgency plans by the Indiana Department of Corrections to stop the prisoners' movement following the rebellion. We also speak with New Akrikan political prisoner, Shaka Shakur. Shaka was shipped out of Indiana to Virginia due to his political activity. Shaka also speaks on the history of the prison movement in Indiana as well as the violent conditions prisoners are still facing including being attacked and targeted. In Memory of Lokmar Yazid Abdul Wadood https://www.idocwatch.org/blog-1/2021/2/9/in-memory-of-lokmar-yazid-abdul-wadood   For more information (scroll to bottom) https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/02/24/the-indiana-prisoner-rebellion-of-1985/amp/   Chris Needs Help With Legal Fees https://fundrazr.com/FreeChrisTrotterref=ab_8WKSJyVJlzy8WKSJyVJlzy Shaka Shakur https://www.idocwatch.org/blog-1/tag/Shaka+Shakur   Support our patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths

In this episode, we discuss how telling oppressed people to never resort to violence is BS. We use a case study of a little-known prison rebellion at the Indiana Reformatory (Pendleton Corrections) in 1985 that required violence for survival. We speak with the co-leaders of the ‘85 rebellion who are still unjustly locked up in prison, John C Cole, aka Balagoon, and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter. they highlight the conditions that led to the rebellion, why taking over the prison was a form of self-defense and the need for prison abolition. We also discuss how the United States stands in no moral position to condemn violence when it perpetuates it around including the current war in Ukraine and its military aggression throughout the globe. For more information (scroll to bottom) https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/02/24/the-indiana-prisoner-rebellion-of-1985/amp/ Support our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths NEW DISCORD!

In this episode, we dive deeper into the fallacies of ancestry DNA tests with evolutionary biologist Dr. Shay-Akil McLean. Dr. McLean helps us explore how our understandings of biology, DNA, and genes are deeply intertwined with the history of slavery and colonialism. Also, he helps us see how science is ultimately used as a distraction to race/racism. Bio Dr. Shay-Akil McLean, Ph.D. (@Hood_Biologist & @DATTShayAkil) is a Queer Trans masculine & gender queer man racialized as Black, on stolen Indigenous land, an educator, organizer, writer, public intellectual, human biologist, anthropologist & sociologist. Shay-Akil earned his Ph.D. from the UIUC School of Integrative Biology’s Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation (PEEC). Shay-Akil studies Du Boisian sociology, STS/HASTS, race/ism, human health demography, evolutionary genetics, & theoretical population genetics. He holds degrees in biological anthropology (BA & MA) & sociology (BA & MA) which he uses to study bioethics, medical ethics, philosophy of biology, population genetics, evolutionary theory, health inequities, & knowledge LINKS: 1. Shay-Akil McLean Academia https://illinois.academia.edu/ShayAkilMcLean 2: Political Education Readings - https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgkR2_KRa91ZoldRk0jiSmWg_O7w?e=7ZdABQ 3: DATT Freedom School Readings (Summer 2015) - https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgkR2_KRa91ZhMUFqfOuI1XfC1fdGA?e=bZX76G 3.1: DATT Freedom School Syllabus (Summer 2015) - https://decolonizeallthethings.com/2015/06/22/d-a-t-t-freedom-school-summer-2015-syllabus/

In this episode, we discuss the fallacies of ancestry DNA tests. We explore the history of racialization, how science has aided in upholding racism, and the questionable science behind ancestry tests. We also challenge the view of what it means to "return to our roots." Support our patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Invention-Politics-Re-create-Twenty-first/dp/1595588345 Social Constructions, Historical Grounds https://www.academia.edu/43704012/Social_Constructions_Historical_Grounds Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/1017476/mod_resource/content/1/barbara-j-fields-and-karen-fields-racecraft-the-soul-of-inequality-in-american-life.pdf  

In part 2, we continue our discussion with Ogadinma Kingsley Okakpu on the myth of the Omicron variant originating in Africa. We expand our conversation to examine vaccine science, the World Economic Forum's Great Reset plan, and how to help global south countries (particularly African) fight Covid and gain political autonomy. How South African scientists discovered Omicron and set off a global chain reaction https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/world/south-africa-omicron-origins-covid-cmd-intl/index.html UK, Germany and Italy detect Omicron variant cases, Israel closes borders https://www.reuters.com/world/concerns-over-covid-variant-trigger-more-travel-curbs-southern-africa-2021-11-27/ The omicron variant was in Europe a week before South Africa reported it https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1060025081/omicron-variant-netherlands-europe-south-africa Omicron is less severe than delta variant and two Covid vaccine jabs give good protection, study suggests https://archive.md/9N1P3#selection-1067.1-1067.106 The Pfizer Inoculations For COVID-19 – More Harm Than Good (This video is against the vaccine but still discusses data relevant to the discussion) https://perma.cc/KQ5V-MWQV Chinese Doctors Confirmed African Blood Genetic Composition Resist Coronavirus After Student Cured https://archive.is/sKtDE The pandemic appears to have spared Africa so far. Scientists are struggling to explain why https://www.science.org/content/article/pandemic-appears-have-spared-africa-so-far-scientists-are-struggling-explain-why The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World is Possible https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346563059_The_Pandemic_of_Racial_Capitalism_Another_World_is_Possible

In this episode, we discuss if the Omicron variant originated in Africa with Ogadinma Kingsley Okakpu. He is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate of Biomedical Sciences at UC Riverside and a member of the AAPRP All African People's Revolutionary Party. We draw on his scientific expertise to explore how variants are tracked, how Africa responded and exceeded expectations in their handling of covid, the significance of a public health infrastructure, how supporting the global South is more than calling for vaccine donations, and how Covid relates to the Great Reset. Support Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths How South African scientists discovered Omicron and set off a global chain reaction https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/world/south-africa-omicron-origins-covid-cmd-intl/index.html UK, Germany and Italy detect Omicron variant cases, Israel closes borders https://www.reuters.com/world/concerns-over-covid-variant-trigger-more-travel-curbs-southern-africa-2021-11-27/ The omicron variant was in Europe a week before South Africa reported it https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1060025081/omicron-variant-netherlands-europe-south-africa Omicron is less severe than delta variant and two Covid vaccine jabs give good protection, study suggests https://archive.md/9N1P3#selection-1067.1-1067.106 The Pfizer Inoculations For COVID-19 – More Harm Than Good (This video is against the vaccine but still discusses data relevant to the discussion) https://perma.cc/KQ5V-MWQV Chinese Doctors Confirmed African Blood Genetic Composition Resist Coronavirus After Student Cured https://archive.is/sKtDE The pandemic appears to have spared Africa so far. Scientists are struggling to explain why https://www.science.org/content/article/pandemic-appears-have-spared-africa-so-far-scientists-are-struggling-explain-why The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World is Possible https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346563059_The_Pandemic_of_Racial_Capitalism_Another_World_is_Possible

In part 2, we continue our review of myths we covered throughout the last year focusing on the myths: Algorithms are Colorblind, and Angela Davis was a Black Panther. Support our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths

In this episode, we review the myths we covered throughout the last year. Each co-host picks one myth to review as a team. We will be reviewing The Myth of Trickle Down Blackness, Black Wall Street was Self Sustaining, Algorihtims are Colorblind, and Angela Davis was a Black Panther. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths Twitter - @blackmythspod Instagram -blackmythspod Facebook- The Black Myths Podcast

In part 2, we further expand our conversation on racial violence to what our guest, Rasul Mowatt, calls the Racial Violence Continuum from his book, "Geographies of Threat, the Production of Violence: The State and the City Between Us." We explore 11 forms of racial violence from the least alarming to the most alarming. Part 1 https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1504205689?ls=1 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths Book https://www.routledge.com/The-Geographies-of-Threat-and-the-Production-of-Violence-The-State-and/Mowatt/p/book/9780367708948 Book discount/coupons https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mDDOfoaRZJzM67qldVrsk-LQg4h-qMLj Twitter - @blackmythspod Instagram -blackmythspod Facebook- The Black Myths Podcast

In this episode, We discuss why the origins of racial violence cannot be explained by white hatred. We explore the violent nature of the state, lynchings as a form of social control, and the purpose that violence serves to maintain capitalist order. We re-invite Rasul Mowatt to offer the necessary perspective pulling once again from his book -- The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence: The State and the City Between Us Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths Twitter - @blackmythspod Instagram -blackmythspod Facebook- The Black Myths Podcast

In part two, we continue our discussion with Dr. Rasul Mowatt on how map-making shaped what we come to know is redlining. We also discuss city Planning, gentrification, and the limits of "building Black wealth" under the auspices of capitalism.  Rasul A. Mowatt, Ph.D., is just a son of Chicago and a subject of empire, while dwelling within notions of statelessness, settler-colonial mentality, and anti-capitalism. He also functions in the State as a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Geography in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University, and soon will be a Department Head in the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University. Part 1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/myth-redlining-originated-in-the-u-s-w-rasul-mowatt/id1504205689?i=1000539249905https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2pb_p6TVg   Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths Twitter - @blackmythspod Instagram -blackmythspod Facebook- The Black Myths Podcast  

In this episode, we discuss the origins of redlining with Rasul Mowatt, Ph.D. Rasul recently released a book entitled "Geographies of Threat: The State and the City Between Us" that uncovers colonial-era maps prior to the history of redlining in the United States that demonstrate similar practices. More importantly, we discuss the political nature of map-making. Instead of viewing map-making as a neutral task, we discuss the nature of conquest that the map-making of the western world came to represent. Rasul argues that the conquering and administration of space are essential to the making of the state. Redlining is an expression of this history. Rasul A. Mowatt, Ph.D., is just a son of Chicago and a subject of empire, while dwelling within notions of statelessness, settler colonial mentality, and anti-capitalism. He also functions in the State as a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Geography in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University, and soon will be a Department Head in the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University. Book https://www.routledge.com/The-Geographies-of-Threat-and-the-Production-of-Violence-The-State-and/Mowatt/p/book/9780367708948

In this episode, we discuss the philosophy and methodology we use to define Black Myths. Our goal is to give the audience a framework of how we evaluate myths, define a myth, and make it worthy of discussion. We also discuss the psychology behind why some of us as Black people cling to myths despite being presented with counter-evidence. With us to explore these concepts is nationally recognized scholar, speaker, educator, and organizer, Taharka Anderson. His scholar-activism centers Black educational philosophy, the narratives and social vulnerabilities of Black males, and Black students and school discipline. He is currently a doctoral student in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a master's degree in the Social & Cultural Analysis of Education and a bachelor's degree in Sociology with a minor in Africana Studies, both from California State University, Long Beach.