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This Is Karen Hunter

S E267: Abdur Rahman Muhammad

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Karen examines the perseverance it took for Abdur Rahman Muhammed to finish a work that seemed impossible.

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This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Abdul Rahman Mohammed. Mohammed, Abdul Rahman Mohammed. I want to take some time talking about

0:18.7

this man because he is the quintessential depiction of what perseverance looks like.

0:25.6

He is somebody who would not rest until he got to the bottom of something.

0:29.9

He spent 30 plus years of his life following this question, who killed Malcolm X.

0:36.8

Because he knew for a fact that the men that were arrested and convicted,

0:41.5

they weren't all guilty, that there were still people walking

0:44.6

around this earth who had contributed to the death of Malcolm X and he was

0:48.8

determined to pursue that truth and he did so without money.

0:54.0

He wasn't funded.

0:55.1

He went out and he was his own time and energy

0:58.3

while he was raising his family, while he was working.

1:02.0

A brilliant man graduated from Howard,

1:04.1

but did not have a PhD.

1:05.6

Was not one of these learned scholars,

1:08.4

wasn't even in law, but knew how to pick up breadcrums.

1:12.2

And it's a lesson, you know, I talk on these mics on this

1:16.0

airwave quite frequently about self-determination and the way in which we can create the life in the

1:21.8

world that we want to live in.

1:24.2

And it goes beyond just, you know, having a nice neighborhood

1:28.7

or a nice home.

1:29.5

It's like the world we live in requires and demands that we all require and demand

1:35.1

truth and justice and I know those sound that those sound like amorphous you know

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