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This Is Karen Hunter

S E1154: In Class with Carr, Ep.156: MS Apartheid, The Murdaugh Family, the HU Lawsuit and Claudette Colvin

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Greg Carr unpacks a lot in this lesson including Mississippi's GOP Apartheid takeover of Jackson, the second Blackest state in America and he breaks down the case of Alex Murdaugh, looking at the lineage of his family. There is also a discussion of Claudette Colvin and the discrimination lawsuit filed by former law school student at Howard University.

Check out Ep. 40 of In Class with Carr for more on Claudette Colvin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olhRUzq5Ex4

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. But John Henry Falk may have experienced the most profound effect.

0:16.0

He was a graduate student when he interviewed the former slaves including the two women you hear in this broadcast.

0:22.0

Himself, interviewed just... the two women you hear in this broadcast.

0:23.0

Himself, interviewer just before he died in 1979,

0:27.0

Falk was going on about how he believed

0:30.0

in giving blacks the right to go to school, giving them the right to vote,

0:34.8

giving them the right to go into anything they qualified for.

0:39.1

And then he said he experienced an epiphany.

0:43.0

I'm sitting out on a wagon tongue with his old black man.

0:47.0

And it's telling him what a different kind of white man I was.

0:52.0

I remember him looking at me.

0:54.0

They're sadly, it kind of sweetly and condescending and say, you know you still got the disease,

0:59.3

honey. I know you think you'd cure it, but you're not cure it. You can't give me the right to be a human being. I'm born with that right.

1:06.4

Then you can keep me from having that. If you've got all the policemen and all the jobs on your side you can deprive me of it.

1:14.0

But you can give it to me.

1:16.0

And I've gone with it just like it was.

1:18.0

I've got it had a profound effect on me.

1:21.0

I'm furious with him. But the more to reflect on, the a profound effect on me. I was furious with him, but the more

1:23.4

to reflect on, the more profoundly in effect.

1:26.5

And I realized this was where it really was.

1:35.0

Good morning. Hold on, stop it.

1:37.0

Good morning, New Bians.

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