Let's Put Culture at the Center with Dr. Gregory Carr
Hello Somebody
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In our first episode of the Hello Somebody COVID-19 Series, Senator Turner speaks with Dr. Gregory Carr, Associate Professor and Chair at Howard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies. With shocking clarity, we learn the irreversible truths behind why black folks -- in particular -- are more hesitant to get vaccinated. From Eugenics, to “snatching bodies,” to health policy based on anti-blackness, to even the Atlanta Child Murders, we begin to understand the cultural and historical PTSD black folks are experiencing in this time of being able to trust this government-led, yet necessary vaccination. Hello.Somebody!
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LINKS
Dr. Gregory Carr
https://gs.howard.edu/greg-carr
Fannie Lou Hamer (hysterectomy)
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/
Dr. James Marion Sims
2016 Study: “Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/
Atlanta Child Murders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_murders_of_1979%E2%80%931981
Books:
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/douglas-blackmon
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805039399
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hello Somebody, a production of the Black Effect Network on I Heart Media. |
| 0:07.9 | Before we begin, I want to give some thanks to our team. |
| 0:11.1 | Thank you, Grace and Co. for our graphics. |
| 0:13.5 | Pepper Chambers for writing. |
| 0:15.4 | Angelo Greco and Anna Mesa for managing our social media. |
| 0:19.6 | Tiffany Hale for everything. Erica England for Patreon support, |
| 0:24.5 | and our production team at large media. That's L-A-R-J-Media.com. |
| 0:35.2 | I am so excited about the fact that we have done an entire series about COVID in the black community. |
| 0:44.1 | Today for our special COVID series, we're taking a look at how we got here with Dr. Gregory Carr, |
| 0:50.2 | associate professor and chair at Howard University's Department of Afro-American Studies. |
| 0:56.4 | We're putting culture at the center and we take a hard look at the past with hope for the future. |
| 1:02.4 | Crossing the Color Lines. |
| 1:04.3 | Episode one. |
| 1:06.6 | Hi, Dr. Carr. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, it called me Greg. |
| 1:10.4 | I mean, we will not do any such thing. |
| 1:18.4 | You earned that degree, baby. |
| 1:27.2 | That's all right. That's uh, I don't know. |
| 1:27.6 | That's all right. |
| 1:28.2 | That's all right. |
| 1:29.2 | We all know they ain't worth the papers printing on if I ain't doing nothing with it. |
| 1:32.8 | So. |
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