S E337: In Class with Carr, Ep. 17: The Real Story of Aunt Jemima
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Karen and Dr. Greg Carr discuss how "Aunt Jemima" came to be. They also take the listener on a journey of how images of Black people were purposefully shaped to fit a narrative as well as the reason and importance of burying our ancestors.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Welcome back another class in class with Carr, Dr. Great Carr. All right, |
| 0:15.8 | Kreme a wheat out of here. And Jemima, done. |
| 0:20.6 | Quaker Oats, 130 years. |
| 0:23.0 | We have been eating Edgemama with the syrup, the pancakes, |
| 0:26.7 | with the black lady on. |
| 0:27.8 | They changed her look to make her not look like an enslaved person. |
| 0:31.4 | And she looked like a modern woman, a perm now she's gone and I'm like good good |
| 0:37.1 | but we didn't have a problem with Nancy Green that's her name I didn't even know that was |
| 0:41.3 | her name until recently. It was Aunt Jemma. |
| 0:45.1 | So Dr. Gray-Kard, tell me why either we should be celebrating just like the statues, |
| 0:52.1 | her coming down and we're |
| 0:53.7 | and all the other places that they're removing |
| 0:56.6 | black symbols of slavery, Lando Lakes, you know, |
| 1:00.3 | I mean, it's a lot. |
| 1:01.8 | Tell me why we should either celebrate an honor, |
| 1:04.0 | her grandson or a great nephew is mad |
| 1:07.2 | because it's like she, you know, she fought hard |
| 1:09.8 | to, you know, live her life, making pancakes for people and serving white folks all right tell me why I'm wrong for |
| 1:16.7 | no no I don't it this this is almost a running theme of our Saturdays, a running theme of our class, |
| 1:27.0 | because I know sometimes we do more than one a week, but the idea is that, you know, history is complicated. |
| 1:31.7 | History is lived by real human beings and I could get the family |
| 1:36.3 | being angry in fact when you know earlier when we were going back and forth when the idea came to mind when you said, |
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