S E1322: In Class with Carr, Ep. 321: “Last Whiteness Standing”
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Summary
This week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais sharpens what we too often soften with abstraction: Whiteness is not passive, accidental, or misunderstood. It is an intentional, strategic mechanism for establishing and protecting an increasingly fragile, minority-centered power base—globally and within the United States. Callais is not just a legal dispute over voting maps, nor merely another instance of judicial ideology overriding clearly expressed legislative intent. It is part of a last-stand effort to preserve a political and legal foothold for Whiteness itself, at any cost. This case represents the latest moment in a multi-generational struggle by proponents of a White nationalist Social Structure to constrain the power of Black Governance formations and movements. Will we defer to a race-first “rule of law” or leverage our Movement and Memory to trust what our Ways of Knowing have repeatedly made clear? The broader project of White minority rule is straining to reassert itself against rising domestic and global forces it cannot control. In doing so, it exposes its own contradictions and erodes the illusions that sustained it at its steadily collapsing peak—marking what must be its final stand. The task before us is twofold: to name reality without euphemism and to organize and assert power with clarity, strength, and coalition, grounded in Africana self-determination.
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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. At South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, this is video of some of that protests |
| 0:57.6 | from earlier today. |
| 0:59.2 | Students are pushing back against Lieutenant Governor Pamela Vet, who is scheduled to serve |
| 1:02.8 | as this year's commencement speaker. |
| 1:04.3 | And not too long ago, our Lieutenant Governor held a news conference talking about these |
| 1:09.0 | protesters. |
| 1:10.4 | News 19s's Kiki. |
| 1:11.2 | Shu joining us currently on campus speaking with demonstrators. So Kiki, what |
| 1:15.5 | are students saying about why they're protesting in the first place? |
| 1:22.4 | Erica Krista simply put these SC state students do not want Lieutenant Governor Pamela Avett as their |
| 1:28.8 | 2026 commencement speaker. Now they're gathering out here on the plaza as you can see behind me |
| 1:34.3 | and they're preparing the student body president Zarya tells us at 545 President Alexander |
| 1:39.4 | Conyers is going to address the students and their concerns. We'll be following that and give you more information coming up. |
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