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In Class with Carr

S E127: This Is America (Part 1)

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

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

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

America's foundation is rooted in racism, white nationalism and brutality. The mass killings are not anomalies, they are systemic. And either Americans are going to decide that the made-up construct of whiteness, which is at the root of the problems in America, should be eradicated, or the country will implode from within.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So much focuses on gun control. What we really need in America is people

0:17.8

control. What we really need in America is to examine why we have these racial constructs because that's at the crux of it.

0:25.0

We're focusing on the gun but before there was a gun there was a bomb and

0:29.4

before there was a bomb there was a noose and before there was a noose there was a noose there was a bomb there was a noose, there was a whip, and before there was a whip, there was a chain.

0:37.0

You can take away the gun. Next will be a drone.

0:40.0

So let me tell you, the weapon of choice choice will change even if there's gun control

0:45.2

legislation tomorrow we haven't changed the hearts and minds of the people who

0:48.9

actually perpetrating these mass killings and these horrors and these terroristic acts.

0:54.1

That's gotta be to work.

0:56.0

That's gotta be to work.

0:57.2

Up next is commentary that I did on my radio show on Serious XM

1:01.9

on the heels of the mass murders in Dayton, Ohio,

1:05.0

in Dayton, Ohio and in El Paso, Texas.

1:10.0

I'm going to do this in two parts.

1:11.0

Second part, we're going to be talking to some listeners as well.

1:14.6

But let me know what you think.

1:16.1

Follow me on Twitter, at Karen Hunter.

1:18.3

Let's keep the dialogue going, but more importantly,

1:20.3

let's keep the action going.

1:21.4

What are we going to do in our community to protect ourselves, but also what are we going to do in our community to protect ourselves

1:24.0

but also what are we going to do to build because I can't focus on something I can't control

1:28.2

Which is somebody's heart which is somebody's mentality, but I can focus on how we spend our money and how we move in the world.

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