The standard
Evaluate policy, culture, intimacy, and economics by whether they preserve and enlarge Black life across generations.
Why it matters
Survival is more than avoiding physical extinction. A people can remain numerically present while losing land, institutions, memory, reproductive security, political leverage, and the authority to define itself. Black nationalist survival therefore includes demographic continuity, cultural transmission, community defense, economic reproduction, and the maintenance of an organized will. This priority does not demand blind support for every Black person. It demands that internal disputes, personal ambition, and coalition politics be judged against the long-term condition of the Black collective. No abstract ideal of inclusion can outrank the concrete survival of the people whose liberation gives the doctrine its purpose.
Practical example
A redevelopment plan brings luxury investment but removes the Black population, destroys local businesses, and replaces community institutions. Even if the project is formally “diverse,” it fails because the Black community does not survive as an organized presence.
Failure test
A program that benefits Black individuals while dissolving Black collective capacity is not pro-Black.