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This Is Karen Hunter

S E112: What is an "After" Man?

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Karen gives the history of how the classifications of race started and the ridiculous notion that people of African descent are inferior and are "After" man.

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This is a made up

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a

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and welcome to the hub. We all know that race is a made up construct. Race being black or white. That's all made up. I've known this for a while, but I've recently picked up a book as actually I got a review copy of a book called

0:24.9

Passionate for Justice. Ida B. Wells, as Prophet for Our Time, is written by Catherine Meeks

0:31.5

and Nib's Stroup.

0:33.0

I'm going to have them on my radio show on Serious XM

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urban view.

0:36.0

But in this book, they actually broke down

0:38.4

the origins of race and who started it?

0:41.9

Because I always said, like, who came up with it? Because I always said like who came up with it?

0:44.4

This is somebody sitting in a room with a couple people and they're like,

0:47.5

I got it.

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Here's what we're gonna do.

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We're gonna create the stratus and we're gonna put black people at the bottom so that we can always

0:55.0

pimp off of the great work that they put out. And that's kind of how it

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happened. So it was a guy named Carl Linius, who writes under the name

1:05.9

Carolus Linius. He fancied himself an expert in Latin, you know, Carolus

1:11.3

Linius. And he was a botanist he was an actual medical doctor and a

1:16.3

zoologist and he came up with the first classification of human beings before

1:21.4

him we were just people, people from different countries.

1:24.4

So you had the Romans, the Greeks, the thieves, the Africans, the Egyptians, the Dohomies, the Zulu's, you know know people were in their tribes they had their different

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