this is karen hunter and welcome to in class with car this is a space where during the pandemic

we imagined what it would look like to teach a class online that would be for the world and it

started with a simple question can i press record it was a question that i asked of the people's professor

dr gray car At the time,

he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard University. He's still teaching the world. And in this

space, we have been going strong since 2020. And it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class

with Carr. And thank you for joining us. You can follow us by the way at

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join us there. Stay tuned. And the other thing is that there has never been a single solid determined commitment

of large segments of white America on the whole question of racial equality.

I think we have to see that vacillation has always existed, ambivalence

has always existed, and this to me is the so-called white backlash. It's merely a new name

for an old phenomenon. I see the white backlash is a continuation of the same ambivalence and vacillation of white America and the whole question

of racial justice that has existed since the founding of our nation. I think the other thing that

we must see at this time is that many of the people who supported us in Selma, in Birmingham, were really

outraged about the extremist behavior toward Negroes, but they were not at that moment, and

they are not now committed to genuine equality for Negroes. It's much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee an annual income, for instance,

to get rid of poverty for Negroes and all poor people.

It's much easier to integrate a bus than it is to make genuine integration a reality,

in quality education, a reality in our schools.

It's much easier to integrate even a public park than it is to get rid of slums.

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