S E1179: In Class with Carr, Ep. 180: Return From Kemet

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

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Dr. Greg Carr, the People's Professor, talks about the freedom of being in Kemet (Egypt) and there is also a tribute to powerhouse historian Dr. Charles Blockson, who made transition June 14, 2023.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Good everything. uh, Uncle Ojab, I'm gonna do that this morning.
0:15.0	Hello, hello, Dr. Carr, newbeians everywhere and non-newbians and those who are becoming newbians.
0:21.6	I think we're all newb beings though. No question. The new
0:25.8	we're working out something now where we can figure out how to have a more
0:29.4	formal connection with the new beings at least on Elcoteina Islands so they are excited and we
0:34.6	didn't even talk about it yet but they want to they want to adopt us as Nubians
0:39.7	would end we just got figure out formally what that means because they got schools, they got
0:43.6	program. Anyway, so yeah, that's right. Can we get a passport? Well, I mean, you would have to be an Egyptian
0:52.3	passport and you know, to be an Egyptian passport.
0:53.0	And, you know, a lot of us have, can get passports and don't.
0:56.2	So, you know, but yeah, that, well, you know, the AU, the African Union is working on it.
1:00.7	They already have the diplomatic passport, the question is can we get our
1:04.3	act together in the diaspora? I imagine that if and when those passports come, there's going to be
1:10.4	a little wavering among the American descendants of slavery since they just want the passport of their master.
1:15.0	But, you know, I'll take a passport that'll let me go anywhere in Africa and I suspect many of them will too.
1:20.0	So what that does, so when you're traveling, you know, you could use either or? How how does that work, Dr. Carr?
1:28.0	And then, well, that's the funny 60 second story, we weren't the first time I took students to South Africa. This would have been
1:34.8	2004 or five. We got to Cape Town flying from DC from John Foster Dulles and we came in to check in through
1:45.0	customs and the guy stopped me because my passport had a little a little not tear
1:51.9	but it's peeling a little bit at the top right hand corner because I carried my passport at that point everywhere
1:56.7	because they say I'm getting I'm leaving but anyway so I carry my passport like a driver's
2:02.0	like anyway but I always kept it around so it was freeing a little bit.
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