The Visionary's Vault: BIP -Season 1- Ep. 9- Anti-Black Narratives in Social Welfare Policy

This week’s episode opens with "Crabs in a Barrel", an original poem by Jeffery C. White 🦀🗣️... a raw metaphor for survival under systemic constraint.Then we dive deep into a two-part reflection on how social welfare systems in both the U.S. and Canada have historically criminalized Black poverty and pathologized Black need 🧾⛓️. From the New Deal to workfare, Reagan’s “welfare queen” myth to modern-day AI surveillance in benefits systems 🤖📉, we expose how white supremacy isn’t just about exclusion... it’s about control, shame, and systemic punishment.🎓 In Canada, Christian breaks down the hidden legacy of segregation, displacement, and state-sanctioned exclusion, tracing connections from 1911 immigration bans to the destruction of Africville and the erasure of Black educational history 🇨🇦📜🏠.👁️‍🗨️ We unpack the “Four I’s of Oppression”...Ideological, Institutional, Interpersonal, and Internalized... and how they shape Black identity, community, and resistance today.💡 Featuring wisdom from Du Bois, Baldwin, Assata, and Michelle Alexander, this episode reminds us: anti-Blackness was never a flaw in the system...it is the system.Next episode drops 🗓️ Saturday, June 28th.🎧 Tap in. Speak truth. Challenge policy.✨ And as always, keep the conversation going.