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Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 3: The Settler Structure

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In Chapter 3 of the series, Chisom turns to the present tense. Settler colonialism is not a phase that European empires went through and emerged from. It is a structure that continues to operate, on every populated continent, in 2026. The chapter opens by naming the three forms of white terrorism’s modern operation: extractive colonialism, plantation slavery, named briefly and flagged for a future chapter; and settler colonialism, the focus of the rest of the episode.  Chisom walks through three live cases chosen to show the structure operating across its full register. Greenland under Denmark, where the Spiral Case is delivering individual compensation in 2026 while the colonial relationship continues, shows what the structure does to bodies. Indigenous nations in the United States, where the Doctrine of Discovery still operates in property law and where Indigenous women are murdered at more than ten times the national average, shows what the structure does to land and to law. Palestine, where the July 2024 ICJ ruling has been ignored, where the UN concluded in September 2025 that Israel committed genoc!de in Gaza, and where settler violence and settlement expansion in the West Bank reached unprecedented levels in 2025, shows what the structure does to both at once.  Chisom weaves the Doctrine of Discovery through the chapter as one variant of a global legal pattern of fictions that empty the land, alongside terra nullius in Australia, the Absentee Property Law in Israel, and state-land doctrines in the Nordics. She names directly that white terrorism, in the historical sense, is a system built by specific European institutions across specific centuries, now operated by multiple actors including the UAE, China, Russia, and corrupt African leaders, none of whom are the architects, all of whom are profiting from the architecture. She locates herself, as a Nigerian Black woman living in a country occupying Sami land. She closes with three principles for repair: restitution, sovereignty, truth.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/] Reach us at chisom@overnightwisdom.com [chisom@overnightwisdom.com]

Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 2: From Bodies to Borders.

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In Part 2 of a series, Chisom traces the long history of white terrorism in Africa as one continuous story rather than a list of incidents. Twelve and a half million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic between 1501 and 1866. Roughly 1.8 million died during the Middle Passage itself. The trade built Europe. Then it ended, between 1807 in Britain and 1888 in Brazil, and Europe pivoted. From taking Africans, to taking Africa.  From bodies, to borders. The Berlin Conference of November 1884, attended by fourteen Western powers and no Africans, formalized the rules for the territorial conquest of an entire continent in thirty-four years. Chisom walks through what Berlin produced: the Congo Free State and its eight to ten million dead, the Herero and Nama genocide and its direct documented institutional line to the Holocaust through the German anthropologist Eugen Fischer, British concentration camps in Mau Mau Kenya, the French settler colony of Algeria, and apartheid South Africa.  She handles the predictable critiques head-on, including the African kingdoms that participated in the slave trade and the post-independence African leaders who looted their own people. She implicates everyone, including the African leaders who continue to betray their people, and the African educational systems that still teach versions of history shaped for colonial purposes.  She closes with the receipts. The cobalt powering the device you are listening on. French uranium extracted from Niger. The British Museum still holding nine hundred looted Benin Bronzes. Climate displacement falling hardest on the continent that caused it least. Three principles for repair: restitution, sovereignty, truth. Africa is not a charity case. Africa is a creditor.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/] Reach us at chisom@overnightwisdom.com [chisom@overnightwisdom.com]

Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 1: Language Change

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In Part 1 of a series, Chisom challenges the term “white supremacy” and proposes a language change: it is white terrorism. She traces the term to its 1824 origins, maps the papal bulls that gave genocide divine authority between 1452 and 1493, and shows how the Doctrine of Discovery is still embedded in U.S. and international law.  Using her Three Clarities Framework, Chisom reveals how white terrorism interlocks with patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism, and religion to create what bell hooks called “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” She handles the academic objections directly, addressing why “terrorism” rather than “racial capitalism” or “settler colonialism,” and acknowledges the lineage of Black freedom thinkers from Du Bois to Bell Hooks who used “white supremacy” descriptively for the system. She closes with the present. In April 2025, France acknowledged the injustice of Haiti’s independence debt and stopped short of reparations. Acknowledgment without restitution is the modern face of white terrorism. The crime is named. The wealth stays. Words shape reality. Let’s stop calling it supremacy. It’s terrorism. Part II - May 13. Overnight Wisdom is a weekly podcast, with new episodes every Wednesday. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/] Reach us at chisom@overnightwisdom.com [chisom@overnightwisdom.com]

Designing for Survival: Business, Babies, and What Keeps Us Human with Lexi Montee Busch

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] This is a conversation about what it means to build something that meets people at one of the most vulnerable thresholds of life. In this episode, I sit down with Lexi Montée of Happiest Baby for a layered conversation on parenting, leadership, product, loss, resilience, and the moral weight of innovation. We talk about SNOO, the science backed smart sleeper designed to support infant sleep and safety, but this conversation goes far beyond babies and bassinets. We explore what it takes to build a company around a real human need, the difference between luxury and accessibility, the emotional complexity of early parenthood, and why care should not be treated as a private burden. Lexi shares what it means to work inside a family founded business, lead through ambiguity, navigate systems level change, and hold both commercial viability and moral consequence at the same time. We also talk about loss, rebuilding after the Los Angeles fires, motherhood, imposter syndrome, resilience, and the strange, beautiful work of becoming more human while building something that matters.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/] Reach us at chisom@overnightwisdom.com [chisom@overnightwisdom.com]

The Men Who Drug Their Wives

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In March 2026, a CNN investigation exposed a global network of men teaching each other how to drug and assault their wives and partners. This episode examines what the investigation uncovered, why this keeps happening, and what women need to know. We discuss the infrastructure enabling this violence — from pornographic platforms hosting thousands of “sleep” videos to Telegram groups where men trade advice on dosages and detection avoidance. We hear from three survivors who discovered their husbands had been drugging and assaulting them for years. But this isn’t just about individual perpetrators. This episode maps the systems that make this possible: platforms that profit from illegal content, police who dismiss survivors, laws that fail to protect women at home, and a culture that still treats women’s bodies as accessible to their husbands. We also address what needs to change — at the platform level, in law enforcement, in legal systems, and in how we raise the next generation. Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of drug-facilitated sexual assault and violence against women. Resources: * US National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 [tel:18006564673] or RAINN.org [http://RAINN.org] * International directories: UN Women, The Pixel Project Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/] Reach us at chisom@overnightwisdom.com [chisom@overnightwisdom.com]