S E1088: In Class with Carr, Ep. 117: Our Response To Gun Violence (and Octavia Butler's Archives)

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Dr. Greg Carr weaves a discussion about the current state of violence in America with Octavia Butler's works "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents." #InClasswithCarr #OctaviaButler #massshootings

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Aunk, Ojocanneb, no-bians. Hello, hello, everyone, hello, hello.
0:17.0	Jocannev, indeed, indeed, life-part care and health. Life-life care and health. It's good to see you.
0:23.5	How you do, bro?
0:24.5	Good to be seeing.
0:25.5	No, I was just, you know, basking in the conversation we had before.
0:28.9	I clicked a lot, you know, about the changes that have happened in my life because of the presence of you in my life and I was like that's the goal you know to run into somebody that can shift you in such a way so that you can change so that you can be changed so you can change the what needs to be
0:46.4	changed you know so I'm going to that I feel the same way about you in In fact, it's interesting because you know those folks who are not yet in Nubia and not yet a narrative, you know, we're undertaking beginning Monday a month-long conversation with and listening to Octavia Butler. Thank you for that by the way,
1:04.6	Prof, because it sent me back to her and just, I mean, remarkable sister, but you know,
1:11.6	she talks about change being God, God being change, and I think that may be one of the first things you said to me when she whispered in your ear and said,
1:20.0	come over here and sit with me for a little while.
1:22.0	So I mean, I thought about that in the context of our goal.
1:26.1	What are we after?
1:27.0	And you added that seventh,
1:30.0	which is really the framing question from, you know,
1:33.4	our sister Sonia Sanchi is how do it free us
1:35.5	to that African-of- Studies conceptual category framework.
1:39.1	And it sent me back 20-some years to when we started Philadelphia Freedom Schools, and we used to always say when we are in community with these young people and these teachers and parents and community folk,
1:51.0	our goal is to get rid of freedom.
1:54.4	I mean, what, no, this shouldn't be freedom school, it should just be school, this is what
1:58.7	she would be doing, and so what you, stepping in as you did and willing and then working incessantly to create this space and then in the middle of a pandemic when we're not going back.
2:12.0	That's why I love that that hashtag I love that
2:15.9	phrase Nubia the new normal as people you know are not going back to these
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