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Channel research hub

This is the index for a continuing, video-by-video fact-check of Basic Logic. It tracks transcripts, screenshots, factual claims, methodological errors, recurring arguments, and the online citation ecosystem from which the channel may be drawing. Claims recorded here are attributed to the channel or a candidate source; they are not endorsed. Each video has its own note so new research can be added without turning this hub into one unmanageable document.

Channel identity and research status

• YouTube: Basic Logic (@BasicLogicIQ)
• Verified YouTube channel ID: UCA6oXQTT_mtCj32dZDdoL6w
• X: @BasicLogicIQ
• X location signal: X’s “About this account” panel said the account was based in Portugal and joined in August 2025 when reviewed. X says the country or region is inferred from aggregated IP addresses; this is evidence about account operation, not proof of the creator’s nationality, identity, birthplace, or residence.
• Public-video inventory captured: 110 videos as of 2026-09-27; the earlier 104-video snapshot from 2026-09-02 is retained in the inventory note
• Individually verified additions: Why Black America Owes Reparations, published 2026-10-04 and reviewed 2026-10-07; and Why Does Africa Actually Lack Water, published 2026-10-22 and reviewed 2026-11-08. 112 tracked video notes comprise the preserved 110-video September snapshot plus these two additions; no complete channel refresh is claimed.
• Completed fact-checks: 11
• Additional full transcripts captured: 0
• Remaining inventory-only notes: 101

Identity boundary

The current evidence does not establish the creator’s civil identity. Similar wording, citations, timing, an X location, or a shared political perspective can support a source-lineage hypothesis, but none is sufficient by itself to identify a person. In particular, the working hypothesis involving Gottskálk / Opin Augu remains unproven.

Navigation

• Basic Logic Research Reading and Review Checklist — guided reading order, active research queue, completion checklist, quality-review order, and provenance backlog
• Basic Logic Youtube Channel Inventory — preserved 110-video September snapshot plus individually verified additions, with priority, topic, transcript, and fact-check status
• Basic Logic Cross-Video Claim Map — recurring claims, inference patterns, evidence, and provenance connections
• Basic Logic Fact-Check Method — the repeatable standard for transcripts, screenshots, sources, verdicts, and completion
• Basic Logic Source and Link Catalog — consolidated user-supplied links, Reddit source bundles, primary-source replacements, candidate provenance sites, and links from evidence clusters to the relevant dossiers

Completed video dossiers

1. The Genetics Behind Unequal Societies — complete transcript, four preserved screenshots, study-by-study audit, direct admixture-outcomes review, and source-provenance investigation

2. Racial Egalitarianism - All Arguments Ranked and Debunked — complete transcript, two preserved screenshots, Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study audit, national-IQ-map audit, adaptive-locus review, and cross-video comparison

3. The IQ Debate We're Not Allowed To Have — complete transcript, three preserved screenshots, Head Start and national-IQ-map audits, Jensen/Watson/Jussim suppression-claim review, and legal/evidentiary analysis

4. Why Is Per Capita Impossible For Them — complete transcript, three preserved screenshots, estimand/denominator audit, SNAP conditional-probability correction, and reconstruction of the invalid gang-homicide subtraction

5. Why Is Black America Like That — complete transcript, five preserved screenshots, historical homicide and family-series reconstruction, welfare-causality review, and Sowell/meme provenance analysis

6. Why Is Africa Like That — complete transcript, five preserved screenshots, official development-trend reconstruction, colonialism/resource/climate audits, national-IQ-map comparison, slave-trade review, and Cold Winters/aid provenance analysis

7. An Honest Review of Civil Rights — complete transcript, eight preserved screenshots, Title II/IV/VI/VII and EEOC audit, Runyon and Little Rock chronology correction, school-fighting-chart review, and market-discrimination analysis

8. Why Do Western Elites Fear European Bloodlines — verified transcript, four preserved frames, Mosca/Pareto and Gregory Clark audits, assortative-mating and caste-genetics review, fertility/welfare and migrant-skill analysis, and authentication of the Aristotle passage

9. Why Did the Third World Learn to Cry Racism — verified transcript, six preserved frames, Orania history/energy/legal-status review, fear–shame–guilt and diversity/trust audits, cross-cultural morality comparison, anti-racism chronology, and correction of the Hamilton quotation misattributed to Jefferson

10. Why Black America Owes Reparations — 123 timestamped claim dispositions, twelve preserved frames, fiscal arithmetic and incidence audit, original incarceration/crime and occupational-source checks, slavery/reparations/legal review, and explicit unresolved source limits

11. Why Does Africa Actually Lack Water — twenty timestamped claim dispositions, four preserved frames, reproducible official water/aid calculations, borehole-functionality research, Dutch welfare-chart verification, and IQ/patience/genetic-causation review; anonymous anecdotes and exact headline aid totals remain unresolved

Transcript captured; fact-check queued

None. All transcript-ready dossiers in the active batch are now complete. The next work should begin with the quality-review sequence in Basic Logic Research Reading and Review Checklist, then open the next inventory-only dossier deliberately rather than treating its placeholder as research.

Current cross-video assessment

The November addition Why Does Africa Actually Lack Water tests the development/aid argument against groundwater and borehole field research, official service trends, and identified Dutch benefit tables. It preserves a fourth appearance of the national-IQ map family. Its main distinction is between an observed infrastructure or welfare outcome and a demonstrated genetic cause; the dossier separately records the substantive maintenance and governance concerns. Audio was recovered through local automatic transcription, with caption and provenance limits disclosed.

The October addition Why Black America Owes Reparations adds a fiscal-allocation and collective-liability chain. Its title functions as an anti-collective-guilt reductio. The audit distinguishes that ethical position from a misdescribed racial bill, conditional fiscal arithmetic, a wrong wealth-bracket comparison, ambiguous crime denominators and an unidentified DEI causal effect. It establishes visible source credits to @WhitePapersPol and an analyst intermediary for the homicide heatmap; the fiscal workbook remains unrecovered. The original nine-dossier synthesis below is retained as its historical assessment.

The first nine completed dossiers reveal six overlapping inference architectures. The genetics/IQ cluster uses:

real population variation or within-group heritability
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presumed racial differences in neurology or intelligence
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presumed racial differences in personality and temperament
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racially characteristic cultures and civilizations
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ancestry-specific social compatibility and political prescriptions

The first step can be true while every later step remains unestablished. The videos repeatedly treat evidence for population structure, trait heritability within a population, or local adaptation at a particular locus as though it measured the genetic cause of broad racial-group differences in psychology and social outcomes. Those are different scientific questions.

The crime/family cluster uses a parallel escalation:

real racial disparity in a recorded outcome
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inconsistent offender, victim, incident, and population denominators
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undefined high-risk subgroup estimate
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family structure selected as the central mechanism
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welfare treated as the single historical cause
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aggregate disparity becomes a racial moral judgment

The Africa dossier bridges those clusters through a development-and-civilization chain:

real development gaps and selected historical episodes
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colonial and institutional explanations reduced to a straw man
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resources and warm climate asserted to select “short-termism”
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reused national-IQ map treated as psychological validation
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slavery, corruption, infrastructure, and aid made consequences
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a continent-wide judgment about African character and ambition

The dossier confirms the familiar structure: a real descriptive question is followed by an unsupported causal bridge, then a collective social or moral conclusion. It also shows that the hereditarian and cultural/welfare strands are not separate; the Africa video fuses national-IQ imagery with a Sowell/Moyo-style dependency narrative.

The civil-rights dossier now shows how the channel turns those descriptive and hereditarian claims into a legal-political argument:

genuine concern about compelled commercial association
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competition assumed sufficient to eliminate irrational discrimination
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persistent exclusion treated as evidence that racial exclusion was rational
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group crime and school-fighting averages substituted for individual risk
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disparate-impact doctrine recast as automatic guilt and racial quotas
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desegregation recast as forced access by a group with “nothing to offer”
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Civil Rights Act blamed for DEI, racism, and Black-family decline

This is the project’s clearest example of selection-as-proof: because an owner, employer, customer, or parent excluded a group, the exclusion itself is treated as evidence that the group imposed net costs. That does not distinguish rational risk assessment from prejudice, coordinated norms, misinformation, state-backed caste, market power, or inherited segregation. The video’s legal claims then obscure the tests that would matter: a particular challenged practice, causal evidence of disparate impact, job-relatedness, business necessity, and an available alternative.

The European-bloodlines dossier extends the genetics cluster into elite theory and caste formation:

organized minorities and real elite circulation
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partly heritable traits treated as a ruling genotype
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assortative mating treated as noble biological selection
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status turnover treated as genetic bloodline turnover
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industrialization treated as diffusion of noble alleles
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welfare and immigration treated as deliberate dysgenic policy
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a permanent foreign caste asserted as the elite's objective

The audit confirms the narrow political-theory, assortative-mating, endogamy, and quotation premises while rejecting the connecting genetic and intentional claims. It also identifies a new recurring error: genealogy-to-genotype substitution. Descent from a notable ancestor does not imply retention of a coherent set of alleged “ruling” alleles, and legal or surname continuity does not measure genetic elite quality.

The Orania/“Third World” dossier adds a homogeneity, moral-cognition, and predation chain:

real Orania restoration, autonomy, and solar investment
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public infrastructure and continuing grid dependence omitted
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criticism recast as a demand to take residents' property
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disputed fear–shame–guilt taxonomy made a hierarchy of peoples
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diversity treated as automatic moral collapse
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human groups mapped onto predator and prey species
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selected headlines treated as proof of group motive
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anti-racist history compressed into mimicry by an unnamed teacher

The dossier verifies Orania’s unusual governance, self-provided services, restrictive cultural norms, and genuine solar investment while correcting the claim that it was built from a blank plot or had ceased relying on Eskom. It also adds three error labels: typology-to-hierarchy substitution, analogy-to-anthropology substitution, and selected-outcome-to-population-motive inference. The closing Jefferson frame is a particularly concrete provenance failure: the text is an altered Alexander Hamilton passage criticizing Jefferson’s naturalization proposal.

Provisional channel-level verdict

The completed sample is small, so this is a provisional rather than final channel verdict. Across all nine audited videos, Basic Logic often begins with authentic studies, recognizable datasets, genuine disparities, legal rules, political theories, or accurate historical fragments but overstates what they establish. The recurrent failure is not simply “a bad statistic.” It is an untested bridge from a descriptive group difference or real concept to a preferred genetic, cultural, climatic, welfare, market-efficiency, or homogeneity-based cause, and then from that cause to civilization, policy, collective character, moral comprehension, or coordinated elite intent.

Source-provenance network

The evidence currently supports a shared citation ecosystem more strongly than a single-source or shared-creator conclusion.

primary population-genetics, adoption, ancestry, and IQ literature
                               ↓
     hereditarian / race-realist secondary interpretation
        ├── Human Varieties
        ├── OpenPsych and Dalliard
        ├── Emil Kirkegaard and related networks
        ├── Fuerst (2015)
        ├── Rushton / Jensen / Lynn-derived tables and maps
        └── Frank Salter-derived kinship and ethnic-interest arguments
                               ↓
  Substack / blog / forum / Reddit / image-compilation circulation
        ├── Jonathan Barazzutti
        ├── Gottskálk / Opin Augu
        ├── The Boomer Tribune
        └── unattributed screenshots and recurring citation bundles
                               ↓
                    Basic Logic videos

This diagram is a research model, not proof that every arrow represents direct copying. Each proposed link needs at least one of: an exact quotation, an unusual citation cluster, the same crop or graphic, the same numerical error, the same ordering, an archived hyperlink, or a dated public interaction.

Strongest findings so far

• Wu and Zhang (2011): Jonathan Barazzutti highlighted the same nervous-system categories before the genetics video, but no single Barazzutti article found so far contains the video’s full citation bundle.
• Cheng et al. (2012), Table S2: the table and its ancestry–SES interpretation circulated in Human Varieties and OpenPsych/Dalliard material.
• Gaspar and Breen (2019): Gottskálk’s June 2025 article is the earliest pre-video source found so far that combines this unusual PCA paper with Wu and Zhang and moves toward the same genetics-to-psychology/civilization argument.
• Mixed-child “parent versus stranger” argument: substantially older Frank Salter-derived material and later racialist compilations weaken any claim that this wording uniquely identifies Gottskálk.
• Minnesota adoption numbers: the approximately 106 white / 99 mixed / 89 Black sequence appears in the primary paper but also circulated for decades through Rushton/Jensen and American Renaissance–type summaries. The video’s omission and framing may be inherited, but the numbers alone cannot identify a direct source.
• World-IQ graphic: the exact Lynn–Vanhanen 2002 map family is now verified in the IQ, racial-egalitarianism, and Africa videos. The immediate download/crop source remains open, but three-video reuse is established.
• Head Start and Jensen: the IQ video’s argument is recognizably downstream of Jensen’s 1969 compensatory-education debate, but its slide exaggerates the primary text: Head Start began before the article, Jensen separated IQ from scholastic outcomes, and “all failed” is contradicted by longer-term outcome research.
• Suppression slide: the video combines Jensen, Watson, and Lee Jussim without a cited source. Exact-phrase searches have not located that complete sequence in the candidate sites, so direct provenance remains open.
• Crime denominator recurrence: both completed crime videos reuse the FBI 2019 55.9% share of known-race homicide offenders while labelling it first as “Black murders / total murders” and then as “more than half the crime.”
• Gang subtraction: the 56% − (9% × 50%) = 51.5% operation is arithmetically correct but combines quantities not shown to have the same unit, year, coverage, or missing-data treatment.
• Black-family baseline: the video’s 78% pre–civil-rights two-parent figure is contradicted by the Census Bureau’s approximately 67.0% figure for 1960; it most likely results from ignoring the children who lived with neither parent.
• Sowell lineage: the Black America video closes with an explicit Thomas Sowell welfare-state quotation. This establishes a source lineage for the interpretation, while the exact quotation origin and the immediate source of the false 78% figure remain open.
• Africa development claim: World Bank regional series contradict the claim that sub-Saharan living standards and infrastructure became worse after colonialism: life expectancy, child survival, electricity access, primary completion, and real GDP per capita all improved over their available regional series, while still showing substantial unevenness and failure.
• Cold Winters lineage: the Africa video’s warm-climate → weak planning/innovation argument closely tracks the Lynn/Rushton/Pesta “Cold Winters Theory.” This is a probable intellectual lineage, strengthened by the reused national-IQ map, but no direct source or exact copied wording has been established.
• Slavery slide: European dependence on African sellers is historically supported, but the slide’s worldwide ranking has no defined metric and exact-phrase searches did not locate its upstream source. Its castration-only demographic explanation is materially incomplete.
• Civil-rights legal chain: Title II really does limit exclusion by covered public accommodations, but the video falsely says disparate outcomes are automatically presumed discriminatory, Title VII requires demographic quotas, employers must prove innocence, the EEOC automatically demands payment and sues, and Runyon expanded Title IV to all education.
• Civil-rights visual-source chain: the locked-hair-products screenshot is from CBS Sacramento; the 2017 fighting chart is a Statista rendering of CDC YRBS Table 24; the “Math is racist” screenshot is a Fox News culture-war segment; and the 1976 frame most likely refers to Runyon v. McCrary. No single upstream page containing the full bundle has been found.
• Sowell bridge: the civil-rights and Black-family videos both close through Thomas Sowell-derived framing, linking the channel’s legal critique to its welfare/family account. The exact primary source of the civil-rights quotation remains open.
• Elite/bloodline chain: the European-bloodlines video accurately invokes Mosca’s organized-minority idea, Pareto-style elite circulation, assortative mating, Indian endogamy, and a real Aristotle passage. It then converts those fragments into an unsupported hereditary-ruling-line and policy-intent narrative. The Gregory Clark slide is especially revealing: Clark’s surname research emphasizes slow, persistent status and broadly similar long-run mobility, not exceptionally aggressive European genetic turnover.
• Orania and moral-cognition chain: Orania really did restore a deteriorating former state town, establish unusual local governance, and invest heavily in solar power. Its own records nevertheless confirm inherited state infrastructure and a continuing Eskom relationship. The video’s culture taxonomy has weak categorical support; diversity–trust research shows a modest, contextual association rather than automatic coercion; and cross-cultural cooperation research contradicts the claim that whole populations cannot comprehend moral language.
• Closing quotation: the displayed “Thomas Jefferson” warning is an altered Alexander Hamilton quotation from an 1802 argument against immediate naturalization. “Grecian Horse” becomes “Trojan horse,” and the qualifying citizenship context is removed.

Possible reference sites supplied or identified during research

Treat these as provenance leads, not neutral authorities or proof of use:

• Basic Logic on X
• The Boomer Tribune on Medium
• Jonathan Barazzutti — “On Discussing Population Differences in Intelligence”
• Emil Kirkegaard’s website
• Emil Kirkegaard on Substack
• Gottskálk — “Hvað er Kynþáttur?” on Opin Augu
• Gottskálk on Substack
• Reddit compilation of racialized crime-statistics links — retained as a source-circulation artifact, not as a verified factual source
• FBI Crime in the United States 2011, Table 43 — primary table, but arrest counts require offense, population, reporting, enforcement, and arrest-versus-offending distinctions
• NYPD 2018 Year-End Enforcement Report — the malformed earlier URL ended in pdfThe; this is the repaired report URL
• Unz article claiming homicide is “entirely driven” by Black people — a polemical interpretation requiring a separate claim audit, not a substitute for CDC data

Image-host links from the Reddit compilation are preserved in the research record, but an image or meme is not treated as a source until its underlying table, date, denominator, and transformation are recovered.

Recommended research order

The queue is organized by claim cluster, not merely upload date, so each completed dossier compounds the provenance work:

1. Quality review: follow the nine-dossier quality-review sequence, beginning with The Genetics Behind Unequal Societies and Why Do Western Elites Fear European Bloodlines.
2. Crime-cluster expansion: complete Why Is Black America So Racist to test whether the same FBI/meme/Sowell source bundle recurs.
3. Legal/culture follow-through: complete DEI - All Arguments Ranked & Debunked and then Critical Race Theory - Explained in 3 Minutes to test whether the civil-rights video’s quota and blank-slate claims recur with actual citations.

Completion standard for every video

A note is not marked complete until it contains:

• full transcript with source and confidence label;
• timestamped claim ledger;
• preservation and analysis of the consequential onscreen figures;
• primary-source recovery for each named study or dataset;
• a distinction between what the source reports and what the narrator infers;
• methodological, measurement, and causal-error analysis;
• source-provenance leads with confidence levels;
• cross-links to earlier videos using the same argument, source, image, or mistake;
• open questions and explicit evidence that would change the verdict.

Open questions

• Which person or organization operates Basic Logic? Unresolved; do not infer from Portugal or citation overlap alone.
• Does any pre-video page contain three or more of the genetics video’s four unusual study references together?
• Can the exact Basic Logic crops of the Gaspar–Breen PCA, Wu–Zhang figure, MTRAS slide, and world-IQ map be matched to an earlier post or compilation?
• Did Gottskálk, Barazzutti, Kirkegaard, or another account publicly interact with Basic Logic before the relevant uploads?
• Which channel claims originate in primary studies, and which arrive through Rushton/Jensen/Lynn, Human Varieties, OpenPsych, or forum summaries?
• Can the exact “History’s Worst Slavers” slide or its African → Southeast Asian → Arab ranking be found in a pre-video post, image, or script?
• Across the remaining 101 unaudited videos, how often do the genetics/civilization, elite/bloodline/caste, development/short-termism, crime/family/welfare, civil-rights/forced-association, and homogeneity/moral-cognition chains recur, overlap, or give way to distinct argument families?

Research log

• 2026-09-02: Verified the channel ID and captured the full 104-video public inventory.

• 2026-09-02: Migrated the original genetics dossier to The Genetics Behind Unequal Societies and retained its full transcript and four screenshots.

• 2026-09-02: Completed Racial Egalitarianism - All Arguments Ranked and Debunked, including a primary-paper audit of the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study and visual/source review of its world-IQ map.

• 2026-09-02: Completed The IQ Debate We're Not Allowed To Have, including three preserved frames, Head Start outcome review, Jensen/Watson/Jussim case audits, verification of cross-video map reuse, and a calibrated assessment of the unsourced legal-ban claim.

• 2026-09-02: Completed Why Is Per Capita Impossible For Them, including the SNAP denominator correction and FBI/gang-subtraction audit.

• 2026-09-02: Completed Why Is Black America Like That, including official Census reconstruction of the false 78% baseline, historical homicide and nonmarital-birth comparisons, welfare-causality review, and explicit Sowell provenance.

• 2026-09-02: Completed Why Is Africa Like That, including five preserved frames, a World Bank trend reconstruction, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe case audits, resource/climate and IQ-methodology reviews, slave-trade adjudication, and Cold Winters/aid-dependency provenance analysis.

• 2026-09-03: Completed An Honest Review of Civil Rights, including eight preserved frames, Title II/IV/VI/VII and EEOC review, correction of the Runyon and Little Rock chronology, YRBS chart audit, and market-discrimination analysis.

• 2026-09-03: The active set now contains seven completed fact-checks, two additional full transcripts, and 95 inventory-only notes.

• 2026-09-02: Added the channel-wide inventory, cross-video claim map, provenance model, and repeatable fact-check method.

• 2026-09-27: Refreshed the verified public Videos inventory from 104 to 110. All prior items remained in the same relative order; six new uploads were added as inventory-only notes with verified IDs, dates, and durations.

• 2026-09-27: Completed Why Do Western Elites Fear European Bloodlines, including a re-retrieved caption track, four preserved frames, a 16-claim ledger, Mosca/Pareto and Gregory Clark source audits, genetics/mobility/fertility/migration/caste analysis, and Aristotle quotation verification. The active set now contains eight completed fact-checks, one additional full transcript, and 101 inventory-only notes.

• 2026-09-27: Completed Why Did the Third World Learn to Cry Racism, including six preserved frames; Orania origin, energy, municipal-status, and constitutional-rights audits; fear–shame–guilt and diversity/trust reviews; cross-cultural cooperation and anti-racism history; and correction of the Hamilton passage misattributed to Jefferson. The active set now contains nine completed fact-checks, no additional transcript-only note, and 101 inventory-only notes.

• 2026-10-07: Added and audited Why Black America Owes Reparations (October 4 upload), with 123 claims and twelve frames. Updated focused project connections and review checkpoint. Current tracked set: 111 notes, ten complete and 101 inventory-only. The September 27 full-channel snapshot remains 110; this was not a channel-wide refresh.

• 2026-10-07 follow-up: 2025 FBI homicide comparison now includes direct SHR race-by-sex calculations, matching Census denominators, original source attachments and explicit limits on the non-Hispanic White-male estimate. The original 2021 video-chart calculation remains unreproduced.