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This Is Karen Hunter

S E316: Jose Antonio Vargas on How "The Bluest Eye" Changed Him

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas talks race, justice, immigration and how Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye changed his perspective on everything.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and Jose Antonio Vargas. I reached out to him because he was

0:19.0

tweeting during the largest part of the unrest on the heels of the killing of George Floyd and he was

0:26.3

saying some just amazing things some insightful things I said I want to talk to him I

0:30.8

think it's so important during this time to just talk to people who are not

0:35.9

from your community. He's a man that came here at the age of 12. Did not know he was

0:40.6

undocumented until he was 18. That story he shares with me is amazing. But who

0:46.1

he is today and how he sees the world and what informs him, it just brought my perspective

0:51.9

on a lot of things and it just reminded me why it's so important that we don't live in our bubbles that we don't

0:57.4

Hunker down and just hang out with people who are just like us who think like us who feel like us

1:02.0

But that we stretch ourselves a little bit and get out there

1:05.1

and start to connect and make those connections with people.

1:08.4

Jose Antonio Vargas, up next is that interview.

1:11.4

I think Drew McCaskill is also in on that so we have a nice conversation, but let me know what you think.

1:16.8

Follow me on Twitter at Karen Hunter, K-A-R-E-N-H-U-N-T-E-R, Some say I'm an actual Karen Hunter because you know Karen's now a slur for crazy white women.

1:27.6

But I don't know how that happened.

1:29.8

But anyway, let me know what you think.

1:31.5

Use the hashtag podcast. Up next, Jose Antonio Vargas,

1:35.6

my interview with him. I hope you enjoy.

1:37.8

Joining us right now Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author of Dear America,

1:42.0

notes of an Und documented Citizen.

1:44.7

Let me welcome to the show for the first time.

1:46.8

Jose Antonio Vargas, welcome.

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