12 episodes in this series

Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism

Twelve chapters making one argument: what we call white supremacy is more accurately named white terrorism. From the Doctrine of Discovery to the passport in your pocket, the series traces how conquest was built, legalised and inherited, then asks what that name demands of us.

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Episode #48

6 May 2026

Stop Calling It Supremacy Its Terrorism Part 1

In Part 1 of this series, Chisom argues that “white supremacy” should be named for what it is: white terrorism. Using her Three Clarities Framework, she traces the historical and legal roots of colonial violence—from the Doctrine of Discovery to modern global systems—and examines how race, capitalism, patriarchy, and religion became intertwined. The episode challenges listeners to reconsider the language used to describe power, violence, and historical injustice.

Stop Calling It Supremacy Its Terrorism Part 2

In Part 2 of this series, Chisom traces the history of white terrorism in Africa from the transatlantic slave trade to colonial conquest and its lasting global consequences. She examines how systems of extraction, violence, and exploitation evolved—from slavery and the Berlin Conference to modern resource extraction and climate injustice. The episode also confronts internal accountability, challenging both colonial powers and African leadership while calling for restitution, sovereignty, and truth.

Stop Calling It Supremacy Its Terrorism Part 3

In Part 3 of this series, Chisom argues that settler colonialism is not history—it is an ongoing global structure still shaping land, law, and power in 2026. Through examples from Greenland, Indigenous nations in the United States, and Palestine, she examines how colonial systems continue to operate through legal fictions, displacement, and violence. The episode closes with a call for restitution, sovereignty, and truth as foundations for repair.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 4

In part 4 of this series, Chisom examines racism as the operating system built to sustain white terrorism. She traces the historical construction of race through colonial law, religion, and pseudoscience, while distinguishing personal prejudice from systemic power. The episode connects these histories to present-day realities—from policing and border violence to maternal health disparities and anti-Black racism across the globe.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 5

In Chapter 5 of the series, Chisom examines what happens when racism, patriarchy, and anti-Blackness compound into a distinct form of oppression often experienced by Black women. Drawing on Black feminist scholarship and the concept of misogynoir, she explores how these intersecting systems shape lived experiences across education, economics, politics, and gender-based violence. The episode closes with a call for clarity, self-definition, and building beyond the limitations imposed by systems never designed to serve Black women.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 6

In Chapter 6 of the series, Chisom examines the Black American experience through the lens of historical continuity, tracing the evolution of systems of racial control from slavery to mass incarceration. She explores how laws, institutions, and economic structures have shaped generations of inequality while highlighting the resilience, cultural contributions, and freedom struggles of Black Americans. The episode also reflects on the relationship between Africans and the Black diaspora, calling for historical clarity, solidarity, and recognition of a shared legacy.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 7

Chapter 7 turns to the church itself, tracing how Christianity became both the moral machinery of white terrorism—from the Doctrine of Discovery through Georgetown's 1838 slave sale to apartheid theology—and, in the hands of the enslaved, a language of freedom. It weighs the church's belated reckonings, from the Vatican's unrescinded 2023 repudiation to Pope Leo XIV's 2026 apology for the slave trade. The episode closes by asking a converted Africa, now home to the faith's demographic center, what it owes to a religion handed to it at gunpoint.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 8

Chapter 8 turns to science, the secular authority that manufactured race as an ancient hierarchy dressed up as objective fact—yet also the force that dismantled it, as the genome revealed nothing was ever there. It traces this arc from Linnaeus and Blumenbach through Morton's skulls, Galton's eugenics, and Tuskegee, to reckonings still owed, like the race correction only removed from kidney medicine in 2021. The episode closes by turning to the people this science ranked lowest, asking what is now theirs to refuse.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 9

Episode 9 turns to the border, opening on twin infants who died of cold within sight of Europe after a January 2026 crossing from Sfax—a death the episode refuses to call tragic, since the water did exactly what it was built to do. It traces the same deliberate design across the Sonoran Desert's unidentified dead and Europe's proxy war through the Libyan Coast Guard, then lays the passport index over the colonial map, weighing Nigeria's plundered oil against a Gulf allowed to keep its own. It closes on the author's own two passports, one face and two verdicts, naming the passport itself as the receipt for a much older theft.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 10

In Chapter 10 of the series, Chisom explores coloniality—the systems of hierarchy and ways of thinking that outlived formal colonial rule. Drawing on leading decolonial thinkers, she examines how colonialism continues to shape language, knowledge, identity, education, and power long after empires ended. The episode closes with a reflection on the lifelong work of recognizing these inherited patterns and reclaiming the freedom to choose differently.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 11

In Chapter 11 of the series, Chisom turns the diagnosis onto the reader and refuses the question they arrive with. “What can I do to fix this?” is a trap, because its only honest answer is that you cannot, and the despair is what the structure needs. She replaces it with the question that cannot be escaped, “what am I going to do given that I cannot fix it?“, and closes the three exits, paralysis, heroism, and purity. Then she goes first, Nigerian and Norwegian, extracted-from and beneficiary, paid by the institutions she indicts, refusing to resolve whether that makes her the leverage or the alibi. From there come the three questions she hands the reader, identity, context, and power clarity, and the ask that follows, which is smaller and harder than anyone wants: stop laundering it. The structure does not run on monsters. It runs on ordinary people doing ordinary jobs and declining to look at what the job is for. It ends without comfort and without despair, on the fact that you will probably not see this work finished, that it works anyway, slowly, and that the better world does not make itself, it gets built by ordinary people making ordinary decisions, pointed in the direction of a safer and more dignified world for all.

Stop Calling It Supremacy It’s Terrorism Part 12

In the final chapter of this part of the series, Chisom returns to where the journey began, tracing the origins and function of white supremacy before testing the historical record against the perpetrators' own laws. The chapter concludes that the system can only be dismantled by naming it clearly, and by confronting the case for reparations grounded in history rather than rhetoric.

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