S E360: Chuck D.: "The Masses...Them Asses"

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

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🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Public Enemy frontman Chuck D. discusses politics and race. He also talks about the lessons learned from travel. "We are global citizens!"

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.
0:10.0	Let me welcome the legendary, the author, producer, the, oh my gosh, there's just so many accolades I can
0:17.6	bestow on him. Mr Chuck D, let me welcome Chuck D. to the Karen Hunter show.
0:21.6	Hello Karen Hunter. Hello Chuck D. It's a pleasure to probably catch up with you my bad my bad.
0:29.8	Oh never let me tell you. I should have been on it earlier.
0:34.0	It's all right, it's right on time.
0:36.0	You know, we have, we've been circling each other,
0:38.0	uh, social media and social and social life.
0:41.0	But you know, admire admirer I love your your focus your energy I've been
0:46.2	rocking with you silently since you were on-air America that's how long with with
0:51.1	Rachel Mad-ow that's how far back from a social justice standpoint I've been rocking with you.
0:56.7	Of course musically, public enemy.
0:58.9	I mean, come on.
1:00.2	But you know, you have always converged, you know, the need to have to fight what's going on out there and using your platform to get the message out to the people.
1:13.0	I was born in the 60s.
1:15.0	I mean I've been following you ever since you know you made a lot of us in hip-hop look
1:20.0	literate by writing their books. So anyway, I really you know am a product of my
1:28.5	jobs and my parents and my community so that's what it is.
1:33.0	It's like 40 years ago, the sense that I think that I got
1:37.9	was called common sense.
1:39.5	It wasn't really what people call deep today. But now we've gone to a point where
1:45.5	senses are common and maybe you have common nonsense and people that got their
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