S E1236: In Class with Carr, Ep. 236: "Moving Away or Confronting Head On? Responding to Absurdity"

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

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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On the 61st anniversary of the 1963 Birmingham Murders, a week that saw whitelash to the first (and only?) Harris-Trump debate and the 53rd annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference, we consider strategies for pursuing justice claims and liberation work in order to build a vastly improved society in the current Social Structure? This week’s question: How do we respond to absurdity, which in many ways poured the foundation for a “Black American” identity?

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0:00.0	this is karen hunter and welcome to in class with car this is a space where during the pandemic
0:07.7	we imagined what it would look like to teach a class online that would be for the world and it
0:14.4	started with a simple question can i press record it was a question that i asked of the people's professor
0:19.9	dr gray car At the time,
0:22.0	he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard University. He's still teaching the world. And in this
0:26.8	space, we have been going strong since 2020. And it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class
0:33.8	with Carr. And thank you for joining us. You can follow us by the way at
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0:49.5	join us there. Stay tuned.
0:53.4	Place is so important.
0:55.0	Place informs everything that we do.
0:59.0	It's what we come from.
1:00.0	It's the first thing that we know.
1:06.0	So with that in mind, the sea islands, which is what the string, there's a string of sea
1:16.1	islands all the way from, I think North Carolina to Florida.
1:21.0	So the sea islands are important to us because this is where our ancestors came.
1:26.9	The enslaved people came through Charleston.
1:29.3	They came through all these ports. Their estuaries all up and down the coast, and even after slavery was outlawed,
1:36.3	you know, they brought in what they call contraband, so there were places all here.
1:40.3	I live on St. Simon's Island, I live on one of the sea islands.
1:45.0	One of the reasons that we live there, I'm from Macon, Georgia, which is in the middle of the Georgia state,
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