S E178: All Religion Started in Africa
In Class with Carr
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4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Rapper Fat Joe puts it down, Lurie (AfroStateofMind) and Karen pick it up. A discussion on the roots of religion and the storytellers. If modern-day Christianity borrowed its stories from African tales, do you still follow it chapter and verse? And what about that “slave bible”?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. All the music is African, |
| 0:13.0 | Brazilian music, all of it. |
| 0:15.0 | Dominican music, Spanish drums, |
| 0:19.0 | all the music is African music. |
| 0:21.0 | So, you know, you're getting on the Afro beat now. I've been in Africa. They've been doing that. |
| 0:27.0 | You know what I'm saying? Like you know what I mean? It ain't new. All the music is African. |
| 0:30.9 | No I'm saying, but you're right like you know what I'm saying? But you're right, like, you know what I'm saying? Even in Puerto Rico, when you go to Caribbean, like let's speak about Latinos not being black. Latinos are black. In Cuba at one time there was 8 million Cubans. 5 million |
| 0:46.0 | unfortunately were slaves. 3 million were actual Cubans and they |
| 0:50.6 | integrated and had babies. Same thing with Puerto Rico when you go to Los |
| 0:54.4 | Loisa and when you talk about San Teria that came from the motherland, |
| 0:58.4 | Africa, you know, sometimes Latinos might even identify |
| 1:04.3 | themselves with African and black culture more than black people. |
| 1:08.5 | This ain't no crazy thing. |
| 1:09.7 | Fat Joe ain't on crack. |
| 1:11.7 | Fat Joe ain't on crack. That was Fat Joe even though a lot of Latinos on the |
| 1:15.3 | Twitter sphere were mad at him for that. Like I'm Spanish, I'm Spanish. He |
| 1:20.9 | wasn't talking no lies up in here, but here's what I reason why I wanted to play that and this was a couple of weeks ago I wanted to talk about this |
| 1:27.0 | Marie Favors is here the read Daniel Favors over the Center for Law and Social Justice at Meggra Evers College and Brooklyn is because all religion |
| 1:36.1 | is African and so as we were talking to Mr. So Bigger I wanted to have this |
| 1:41.9 | conversation a different conversation in addition to putting |
| 1:44.5 | seven principles down because as you aptly pointed out they're actually in line with |
| 1:48.6 | the seven principles of Kwanza. I teach at Hunter College and at some point I taught a publishing class and the very first book |
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