This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Welcome back to in class with Carr, great Carr, Professor, Dr. Great Carr,

Africana Studies, brilliant man at Howard University. First of all,

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subscribe. We were about to talk, we're going to have a whole history lesson. Don't worry. We were talking about the internet and we're talking about this particular pandemic with coronavirus and how it has made it even more of a disparate or a tale or two cities. Whereas if you didn't

have internet, you don't have a computer, you don't have access, you're not being educated.

And as an educator, this is really scary that I think we're going to lose like a generation of young people because they're not plugged in.

Yes, no absolutely. First of all, thank you again, Karen, for this ongoing conversation. I can't tell you how much feedback I've been getting, not only from students that I would normally see in person, my high school students, and Philly in other places, college students, but probably more importantly,

all the people who are not in college, which as we know, is the vast majority of people.

So just feedback, I'm getting emails and people, you know, I want to thank you for it

allow me to be in the conversation with you and this platform, a platform that is not only

trusted, but a platform where the expectation is

where it should be for our people, which is I want things that are the highest quality

in terms of conversation and content, and I want to be able to graft them myself, argue with them and as you say, you know,

chew up the meat and there are very few bones in this conversation but I promise but I'm just grateful to be in it.

But I share your concern and our concern and I can tell you that every educator I

have talked to in the last month and a half since we've been in this situation and

I'm not just talking about college educators talking about everybody from first grade

through high school community college and you know we both know a lot of people share this

concern. We are on the precipice of as you say a generation that

certainly at best is going to face a tidal wave of opposition and opposition isn't just coming from the economy. It's

coming from the educational system. We know that all over the country, you know,

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