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This Is Karen Hunter

S E358: "Wandering in Strange Lands" with Morgan Jerkins

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Jenkins, author of "Wandering in Strange Lands" shares the story of the Geechie/Gullah community and she shares her own journey to tell their story.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the show as well. I'm going to engage her because she can't she's an

0:14.4

authoress. She knows how to write and she's writing about things that are near and dear to my

0:19.2

heart. Her book is called Wandering in Strange Lands, a daughter of the Great Migration

0:23.9

reclaims her roots. Let me welcome senior editor at Zara, the one only Morgan

0:28.4

Jerkins. Welcome.

0:30.4

Hi, how are you? I'm great. How are you? Good, thank you for having me. Thanks for coming through. Well, I was really intrigued because my grandfather, Buck, an amazing human being, was born and raised in Guiche Guller, Somerville, South Carolina.

0:49.5

And so I spent, when I went to Augusta to visit my grandmother because they divorced I would go right over the border into Somerville to visit my granddaddy and his new wife well she ended up being married like 40 years Naomi and I would spend a portion of my summers in Somerville so

1:04.2

that Guiche Gullin I couldn't understand a thing he was saying most of the time but

1:08.3

so I was intrigued by this book so tell me tell me your story a little bit before we get to

1:13.8

it though Morgan we're having this debate right now about the cardi bee making

1:19.0

these down you you look like you're a young person you look very young at

1:22.2

least you probably

1:22.8

moisturize very well and yes you probably do and I'm

1:27.9

struggling right now with that image of us just everything just is wet and gushy and that's it.

1:35.0

I'm just I'm struggling.

1:37.0

I don't like the word gushy.

1:40.0

I just don't.

1:41.0

I don't even read this point. and I'll be honest with you I have not seen the video

1:45.7

in this entirety yet because I am on the internet a lot and I wanted to wait until the hype

1:51.8

settle down so I can really gauge if I like it or not.

1:56.0

But I mean, I'm fascinated with just some backlash against these grown women talking about

2:01.0

that genitalia as if Little Kim wasn't doing that hardcore as if I see

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