How are these Infrared nerds doing, anyway? Their brand and disposition don't appeal to me, but I'm not the target market.

For more on the National Question with respect to Black Americans and the black belt, there's the book Negro Liberation by Harry Haywood. There's also Stalin's Marxism and the National Question which laid the groundwork for this kind of analysis.

Progressives tend to have a negative reaction to this sort proposal and think it means "ethno-states" or something to that effect, but it's about the right to self-determination of historically oppressed nations. It was implemented before in the USSR and in China, so it's also not without historical precedent.