S E1274: In Class with Carr, Ep. 274: "The Ballot, The Book and The Buck”

This Is Karen Hunter

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

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Black self-determination and liberation requires a holistic and strategic integration of political power, cultural memory, and economic self-determination. Across a week of reflection, convenings, and engagement, from Birmingham’s Civil Rights Historical District to Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Avenue to Daytona’s Paul Laurence Dunbar House and Wilberforce Ohio’s National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center, we center the urgency of reclaiming and redefining learning, community, citizenship, institution building and governance on African terms.

The Ballot represents more than just voting, though that is an essential element of civic participation: It symbolizes collective potential power. The long fight against voter suppression is revealed by the fracturing myth of inclusion within a settler colonial state to be a potent weapon for realizing collective power. As W.E.B. Du Bois and others demonstrate, the struggle for political power is communitarian, not individualist—and the US South remains a battleground, not of defeat, but of underutilized potential.

The Book highlights the liberatory role of education, historical memory, and cultural knowledge. Case studies of figures like Martin Delany show how Black communities must resist erasure and re-center themselves as global actors in a world system undergoing transformation. Reclaiming narratives that fostering an understanding of internal governance formations is necessary to recover agency.

The Buck calls for an economic awakening—exposing capitalism’s lie of meritocracy and the theft of public wealth. Reimagining collective economics through community interdependence, strategic ownership, and global solidarity becomes a compelling path forward. From the ruins of racial capitalism, a new economic ethos must emerge, rooted in mutual aid and sovereignty.

Voting, reading, and spending must be done with vision and unity. “We’ll find a way, or make one” is not merely a slogan—it’s a generational imperative in the ongoing struggle to complete the unfinished work of Black freedom and transformation.

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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
0:37.9	Narrative with a K. Join us. Narrative with a K. The K is silent like knowledge. K
0:43.0	N-A-R-R-A-T-I-V-E narrative.com. If you want to have a deeper relationship with us,
0:49.5	join us there. Stay tuned. Yes, good everything. Greetings and salutation. Let me stop. Hi, Dr. Carr. Good everything. Why did you stop? It's a beautiful thing. I didn't want to be, you know, I felt like I was being phony, you know, a little bit. Oh, no. No, num, num, num, num, num, no. People say peace and blessings and they say salutations. I think people mean it.
1:11.9	They, you know, it's a, those positive languages. We say hello. I mean, that's, you know. But yes, it's good to see you. Good to be seen. Good to be seen and not viewed, as they say. Yes. How about that? How about that? Yes, it has been an interesting time that we're having.
1:10.7	Very much so, very much so. Yes, how about that? How about that? Yes, it has been an interesting time that we're having.
1:29.3	Very much so, very much so. Yeah, it's been a, for here in Dayton, I decided to come over here instead of setting up over at Ebenea.
1:38.3	A lot of new beings are here in town. Folks are coming in.
1:43.3	What's happening today?
1:44.9	Well, you know, it's the Martin Delaney weekend. So we'll be going to the national Afro-American
1:49.6	Museum and Culture Center in the morning where we've come from before. I was looking back over
1:56.6	the years and looking at the compendium. And by the way, the good brother, Kent Richards,
2:03.2	has done an incredible job.
2:04.9	Can we?
2:05.4	Would you say something about that?
2:07.3	I mean, this space that we're in can only happen
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