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In Class with Carr

S E226: Rex Chapman

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

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

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Karen and former NBA player, Rex Chapmen, sits in to discuss Race, riches, drug addiction and politics.

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0:00.0

This is like puppies and

0:16.1

butterflies and it's just wonderful because I block and delete and I'm going to go back

0:21.6

to doing that this week and trust me y'all y'all got just a couple

0:25.2

more days to get at me but I follow this guy because inevitably every day he's gonna give me something that's either gonna make me

0:34.2

crack up or make me cry in a good way because it's just heartwarming and I

0:39.6

remember following him because I used to cover sports for the New York Daily News because there was very few

0:43.8

that actually could play back in the day in the NBA very very few very few that were American

0:49.0

white boys you know not like dirt Navinsky and all of them other people.

0:53.0

Bad ass from Kentucky let me welcome to the show one of my favorite people on

0:57.5

Twitter Mr Rex Chapman.

1:00.0

Thanks guys thanks for having me really I want to crawl under the table just on that previous segment though.

1:07.0

Oh stop it just makes me it does makes me want to hide.

1:11.0

So you you come at Twitter with a purpose. All right and I wanted to have you on to talk about that because I think we are in a very toxic place where people don't have anything nice to say about anybody

1:23.2

and Twitter seems to magnify that because it's a place where keyboard

1:26.3

cowards can get their stuff off you know what I'm saying because they're cowards

1:30.0

right they won't call up but they will get on Twitter with their Twitter fingers.

1:34.0

Did you come into it with that purpose to make people smile, smile, and cry and laugh?

1:40.0

Not really. I mean, it's kind of morphed into that. About a year ago, maybe a little more than that.

1:50.0

You know, I guess to do what I do with the media TV and radio stuff you need to have a little bit of a social media presence

1:56.5

But the political climate had got me so down that I wanted off of it together. You know I live I live all over the place but I live

2:06.9

back in Kentucky now and a lot of the stuff that I think people don't agree with and so I wanted off of it and for real just one day I saw

2:19.2

a video of a dolphin that ran into a guy on a paddle board, hit him right in the chest.

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