S E1240: In Class with Carr, Ep. 240: “Write the Power: Do We Get The Message?”
This Is Karen Hunter
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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This week we continue our exploration of Ta Nehisi Coates’s book of essays, “The Message,” and reactions to it. As the US Presidential election approaches, we use themes evoked in the book as points of entry to ask how social structures mediate, shape and often dictate how we engage in governance dialogue and decision making, including what we believe is true and how we decide what is and isn’t important in our lives.
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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 Narrative with |
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| 0:52.0 | And in those West Bank settlements, which I once took as mere outposts, you can find country |
| 0:57.1 | clubs furnished with large swimming pools. |
| 1:00.8 | On seeing these cisterns, it occurred to me that Israel had advanced beyond the Jim Crow |
| 1:05.7 | South and segregated not just the pools and fountains, but the water itself. And more, it occurred to me |
| 1:13.6 | that there was still one place on the planet under American patronage that resembled the world |
| 1:19.2 | that my parents were born into. And I was in that world, even as I walked haltingly through |
| 1:26.7 | Yad Vashem, which is, among other things, |
| 1:30.0 | a grand narrative of conquered ancestors built by their conquering progeny. |
| 1:35.6 | I can see that now that I've walked the land. |
| 1:39.7 | But there was a time when I took my survey from afar and invoked this same land to service my own more narrow story. |
| 1:49.0 | It hurts to tell you this. |
| 1:51.0 | It hurts to know that in my own writing I have done to people that which in this writing I have invade against, |
| 1:58.0 | that I have reduced people, diminished people, erased people. |
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