S E139: "Why Are You Always Talking About Slavery?"
In Class with Carr
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🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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That question, which is answered in a powerful discussion between Lurie Daniel Favors and Karen Hunter, will hopefully be put to rest after you listen to this. #1619 #GetThisSmoke
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and question on the air. |
| 0:21.0 | And all I had to do was sit back |
| 0:24.0 | because I had Leree Favors as my co-host that day, |
| 0:26.4 | Afro State of Mind. |
| 0:27.4 | And if you aren't familiar with her, |
| 0:29.3 | check her out on her Twitter page, |
| 0:30.8 | Afro State of Mind, or go to her website Afro State of Mind. |
| 0:33.4 | com and you'll know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:35.7 | But I'm going to be spending a lot of time |
| 0:37.3 | talking about slavery as I have in this podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | And as I have for the last five years on my radio show, why? |
| 0:43.0 | Because for the last 400 years, America has been lying about the institution of slavery. |
| 0:47.5 | America has been lying about her founding. |
| 0:49.5 | It was in 1776, but America started in 1619, and it started on the backs of black people. |
| 0:56.2 | And the whole narrative around the greatness of America could not be spoken of. |
| 1:00.3 | This democracy could not be spoken of without the incursion of black bodies. |
| 1:05.0 | So we're going to keep having this conversation until the record is straight and all the |
| 1:08.7 | new Gingrich out there, all the new gingrages who want to say that this is propaganda, what you do is propaganda. |
| 1:15.8 | What this country has done is propaganda since DW Griffith's birth of a nation all the way |
| 1:20.4 | through our history books taught in high schools and junior high schools throughout |
| 1:24.2 | this land. |
| 1:25.5 | That's propaganda. |
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