S E1241: In Class with Carr, Ep. 241: “Running for the borders, too close to the edges." (Part 1)

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

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Election Day is here for most of the United States. Voting options are open across the country. Millions have already voted and millions more will vote before November 5th, the final day to vote. US Presidential candidates always fight over federal policymaking within and beyond the borders of the US state, but the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has the potential to determine outsized changes in US and global direction for at least the next generation. This week, as we finish our examination of Ta Nehisi Coates’ The Message, we begin a three week consideration of what is at stake in the current US election. Why should we care and also get and remain involved and engaged in a political contest that will determine the role the US state plays in the world? Who are most and least influential actors inside the borders of the most influential empire in global history? What is the role of “the vote” in helping people living in the US to alter or disrupt plans of powerful state and non-state actors with plans for everything from addressing or ignoring climate change and nuclear brinkmanship to propping up expansionist settler colonial regimes and trying to minimize shifts in multipolar geopolitics? Third party rhetoric aside, either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States: Depending on which one prevails, are we closer to the edge in human history? And what can we do about it before and after November 5?

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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. Good everything. Hello there. Peace. Hey, everything.
0:57.9	Right, we're already exhaling. What's that about? I think there's a bit of fatigue,
1:04.2	if I'm going to be honest. Of course. I'm Tyred. But you're not going to sleep,
1:10.3	like Donald Trump in the New York courtroom.
1:12.4	Did you see that? He went to sleep at his own rally too. Yeah. Yeah. I think my greatest exhaustion is in having to convince people to do things for their own good and being accused of somehow being paid to do something to
1:30.6	because, you know, the truth of the matter, the absolute truth of the matter is we will be okay
1:36.7	no matter what. We both have passports. We have a little point. We have people, friends, and places
1:43.7	all over the globe, people who love us. We have a little point. We have people, friends, and places all over the globe, people who love us.
1:47.3	We have places we could go right now. So this is really a question of, and that's always my
1:53.1	question back to people who are like, wow, this country, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, do you live here?
1:57.6	Is this where you've made your home? Is this where your family is? Is this the only
2:01.4	place that you've ever lived? So why wouldn't you want to make it better? And if you think you're
2:05.5	doing somebody, you know, it's almost the petulance of like childhood where you're going to make
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