S E274: Clash of the Classes in the Black Community: Dr Greg Carr (Part 3)

This Is Karen Hunter

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

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Karen and Dr, Carr discuss Black athletes running from blackness, Snoop and Gayle and the challenges of a Black class spectrum that was never created.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and is in the building.
0:15.0	There's a story by Howard Bryant in the Undefeded
0:20.0	why Black Athletes Run from Black Identity.
0:22.0	You drop something in that conversation, Dr. Carr,
0:24.8	about Richard Dawkins, and you turned it around on us,
0:27.6	which we should always turn it around on us
0:29.7	because let's stop talking about the plank in your eye or the splinter in your eye. We're walking around with a chunk of wood in hours.
0:37.0	Let's remove our own plank and let's start fixing ourselves and not
0:45.0	ready.
0:48.0	ready, and us. We're not ready until we get this together.
0:47.0	We're not ready.
0:48.0	We're not ready.
0:49.0	And this is part of the preparation, right?
0:51.0	First, before we go, because I'm gonna to get some callers in, Gail and Snoop, just quickly,
0:56.2	did you, did you ring in on this at all or this just didn't?
0:58.6	Oh no, absolutely.
0:59.6	I thought it was a fascinating moment in terms of social class. I mean can you say something
1:04.4	off the air but it's it's how you walk through the world. As you said we're not a
1:09.3	monolith no human community is so when you convene conversations about our people, you're convening
1:14.3	it trying to get one of everybody at the table. The uncomfortable truth is that there are class challenges
1:19.2	we have in this country. Black people never develop a class stratifications.
1:23.0	So we have to understand.
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