Topic: Music Videos

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52: Build Black Better
2:46:36 - 2:51:08

52: Build Black Better

Tom Burrell, Studs and Sluts Campaign, Plantation Marketing

Advertising legend Tom Burrell discusses his theory of the "Studs and Sluts" campaign, which he argues is a continuation of slave-era conditioning. He claims modern media and music videos promote black men as "brutes" and black women as "sluts" to keep the community unwashed and easily controlled. The hosts apply this to the "Democratic Plantation," where these archetypes are used to maintain a reliable voting bloc.