S E1249: In Class with Carr, Ep. 249: "The Perfectibility of Blackness”

This Is Karen Hunter

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

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 179 minutes

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This week we will use the origin story of Philadelphia Freedom Schools to revisit the essential components of an African education: The intergenerational transmission of knowledge, values and wisdom; the development of character, social responsibility and accountability; and the training of next and future generations to assume roles currently held by elders. By re-membering from the deep well of African thought and practice, can “Blackness,” a concept invented as a tool of oppression, be recrafted beyond a strategy for resistance to become a space for social perfectibility?

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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.
0:54.2	Greetings. Good everything. Everybody. Episode 249. I was like, whoa. Wow.
1:01.8	That's a lot.
1:03.2	Yes. We have a huge archive and just, I was back in there looking for Philadelphia Freedom Schools, which we talked about before, but I feel like we haven't done it in one place.
1:15.7	And I saw four, five in the, in the archive that it came out immediately.
1:24.9	And I was like, wow.
1:26.5	So 53, 109, 134, 138, and 141. But in pieces.
1:33.4	So can I say, I want to say yesterday I had a call from a 24 year old young man. I think his
1:40.2	name is Nathaniel. You know, I know there's multi-generations listening.
1:46.4	This week we had a woman call and then she put her daughter on the phone who's working on some things.
1:50.6	And it's like little kids sometimes seven, eight-year-olds will be, you know, want to get on and talk to us.
1:56.4	And it's a beautiful thing.
1:57.8	I think it's a unique space in that, you know, we may have, you know,
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