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This Is Karen Hunter

S E114: Black Dollars Matter!

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

An anecdote to racism and racial disrespect is buying power and financial security. Karen talks about how companies are chasing the black dollar. Now it's time to use that buying power to have REAL power.

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This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. In my last podcast I broke down Walt Disney and how he used his great franchise to

0:16.7

perpetuate an image of blackness that was inferior from the Pickininian Fantasia to the King Louis and all of that jazz and these kind of

0:26.8

Sambo like figures even the crows I don't seen or elephant fly and it perpetuated an image of supremacy,

0:33.8

white supremacy and black inferiority,

0:36.4

and they did it at the lowest or worst levels

0:38.4

with children and their young minds

0:40.1

and just indoctrinating them into this mindset that you are inferior and white people are superior.

0:45.0

Fast forward to 2019 and the tables have flipped and they haven't flipped because somebody had an epiphany that somehow white supremacy and racism is no longer a thing,

0:56.4

no it flipped because of money.

0:58.4

And I've long contended that the biggest anecdote, the biggest fight that we have, the biggest weapon that we have The biggest

1:03.7

weapon that we have against racism is financial security,

1:07.3

self-sufficiency, and agency.

1:09.2

Because as long as your dollar is not dependent upon a white person

1:12.2

or as long as your dollar is not dependent upon a white person or as long as your dollar is not

1:13.2

dependent upon a white system of supremacy you have freedom as long as you're not

1:18.0

beholden to this dollar and you have your own way of making a living, then they can't really touch you.

1:25.0

If you're like me, you get a lot of joy out of giving. I love to gift.

1:30.0

And I just found this new gift idea called Fab Fit Fun.

1:35.0

Actually you could do it for yourself, but I love to sign people up.

1:38.0

I just signed up my mom and she got her box and she's really excited.

1:42.0

Now what is Fab Fit Fun?

1:43.5

Fab Fit Fun? Go to Fab Fit Fun.com.

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