Black Men are at or near the bottom of every American socioeconomic metric, but feminist and gender studies theory says Black men are privileged because of their maleness no matter their socioeconomic status. Tonight I’m joined once again by Dr. Tommy J. Curry, one of the founders of Black Male Studies and author of “The Man-Not,” to investigate how this way of thinking gained prominence.
This series is sponsored by the African American Men’s Historical Society. The AMHIS is a Black American men’s intellectual society focused on the preservation, history and empowerment of Black men. Go to https://amhis.org to learn more, and visit their substack at https://amhis.substack.com/
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:38 Tonight’s Subject of Discussion
1:10 Introducing Dr. Tommy J. Curry
2:00 Technical Difficulties
3:46 How Did The Rhetoric of Universal Male Privilege Begin?
5:33 The White Feminist Black Male Subhuman Patriarchy Exemption
6:51 Soundbites vs. Research in Academia
7:34 White Supremacist Patriarchy Projected onto Black Men
9:00 Economic and Academic Opportunists
10:00 Intersectional Gaslighting
13:11 Gendered Violence Red Flags
14:01 The Failure of Black Academia to Acknowledge Black Male Martyrdom
22:10 How Gendercide Leads to Genocide
23:45 How Are Black Men Still Seen As Privileged Despite All the Data to the Contrary?
26:07 The Harvard Report
26:50 The Anti-Empiricism of The Black Academic
28:36 The Origin of Black Male Privilege Rhetoric
29:03 The Fall
29:29 Left & Right White Supremacy
30:47 Why Did Weaponized Male Privilege Rhetoric Fail In the Middle East and Succeed in Black America?
33:18 Black America is a Captive Population
38:46 Commercial Break
39:26 Black Male Data and Stats
40:05 Why Aren’t Black Male Centered Statistics Included in Policy?
42:44 The Downward Mobility of Black Male Success
43:38 The Failure of Utopian Theory in the Face of Racial Polarization
45:53 Who Benefits from Black Male Erasure?
49:24 The Fate of Black Male Erasure Collaborators
53:14 Q & A Session
1:11:34 Special Appearance by Dr. T. Hasan Johnson
1:15:18 Solutions: Can This Be Fixed?
1:17:57 Closing Acknowledgements
