S E1182: In Class with Carr, Ep. 183: Did Jimmy the Greek Warn Us About the Potential of a Deion Sanders?

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

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Deion Sanders' first victory with Colorado last week has sparked a lot of commentary around the role of Black coaches in American football. With a look at #JimmytheGreek, who lost his job 35 years ago for saying Black were bred to dominate physically, Dr. Carr, the People's Professor, and Karen take a look at the history and what does it mean for us today beyond athletics. #AffirmativeAction. #InClasswithCarr

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.
0:15.0	Good everything. Hi, Hi, Dr. Car, hey everyone.
0:17.0	That's the honey, good everything. How are you this Labor Day weekend?
0:21.0	I forgot that it was a holiday to be honest with you.
0:24.0	If you're able to make a day off, you're labor.
0:26.0	I'm like, Monday, we're not coming in on Monday?
0:29.0	What? Why not?
0:31.0	When your heads is down and you're doing the work, it's like every day it's like the next day.
0:36.8	Because it's a joy.
0:37.8	You love what you do.
0:39.7	Can we, you know, I was thinking this week about my ancestors who didn't have a choice, but to get up.
0:45.4	We are our ancestors.
0:47.4	I didn't even know you had that on.
0:49.4	And see, that's what I'm saying.
0:51.7	They're here all the time. You were thinking about
0:53.2	I was thinking about not having a choice to get up and what a blessing it is, you
0:58.4	know, that I wake up without an alarm clock, you know, I do the things, but I, you know,
1:02.4	people would look at it as you know you work so much but it's a joy before I came here you
1:09.1	raised just sent me something we've been working on a little something something and it gave me chills because the brilliance of the team that we have,
1:17.8	but also, like, it's a labor of love.
1:20.8	You could see the love and the thing that he just sent me. And I was like, this is what it is all about. You know, I could almost well up just thinking about the team and how how much
1:32.0	gratitude there is to be in a space where you get to imagine and we get to make mistakes because a lot of you know I made a lot of mistakes trying to figure out where we go next but even that my ancestors didn't have a choice. They had to be precise and do exactly what was told or else. And without the threat of the lash or the threat of death, the greatness that we can create and we created a lot of greatness and we
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