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This Is Karen Hunter

S E1112: In Class with Carr, Ep. 130: Serena, Jackson, MI and HBD Charles Hamilton Houston:

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Dr. Greg Carr and Karen discuss the legacy of #SerenaWilliams in the context of individual vs. collective works...Dr. Carr ties it to a "Labor of Love" and carries that theme through the discussion of the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. There's also a tribute to Charles Hamilton Houston, born on this day in 1895. #InClasswithCarr #LaborDay 

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and are in the world. We are here.

0:17.4

Dr. Carr and I were catching up. I was just telling him I had to detox from last night watching Serena and I was not, you know, wrestling with it and wondering why one individual's pursuits meant so much to so many of us.

0:37.0

And let me shout out to the Nubian team.

0:40.0

We did a chat room, somebody on New Years like can we watch the Serena match together so I was like what does that require so you raise in a mind another one got together and we created a chat just for the game to watch chat live similar to people

0:57.1

chatting now you know with us and it was quiet so let me just tell you how the universe works in adversity. So remember I got hacked on

1:06.0

Twitter? Yes, of course.

1:08.0

On Twitter had no access to the people and somebody was like, Amade was like, why's, why don't we have a character show chat?

1:15.0

So now they're like almost 600 people every day.

1:18.0

So I'm like prioritizing the movie and you know while I'm on my three hour show chatting with them and they're

1:24.3

interacted and it's such an experience is different in Twitter because you know these

1:27.9

people are committed to a certain thing so so last night we did the same thing

1:32.3

with Serena and oh my goodness the angst the pain that you know cheering I mean it was just but all of us collectively was got up to it was like almost 200 people and together having, and it was a pop-up, so it wasn't like we planned it.

1:47.3

And it was like, okay, it's here, y'all find it great.

1:50.7

And I was in there and it was, it me get through you know to all of us collectively we all collectively watched her lose last night.

1:58.0

Serena lost and this might be the last time we get to see her play.

2:02.0

Yeah, I was hoping they'd get the doubles too, but you know.

2:07.0

I actually was thinking if she had not played the doubles at night before,

2:11.0

she might have had enough gas in the tank because she and arenas played the night before and that was a really tough match.

2:17.0

Serena's doing splits and hands hands and you know covering all of the court like she does and I was like, okay, so you got to play tomorrow if you over 40 anybody over

2:26.3

40 no like come on let's let's be absolutely and then she's carrying more weight than she should, you know, I was going through all of this in my mind, like, how is she going to come back tomorrow?

2:39.5

She ain't in her 20s, but she just like get up the next day after a night of partying.

2:43.0

A very good point.

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