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In Class with Carr

S E452: In Class with Carr, Ep. 51: "The Black Church," Stevie Wonder to Ghana & The Coca-Cola Problem

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

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

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Greg Carr and Karen will engage in a conversation about PBS's The Black Church through the lens of African history. They will also discuss Stevie Wonder's decision to move to Ghana. And Coca-Cola had an anti-white training session with employees. What does that mean?

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and somewhere in the world. Welcome to

0:16.1

episode 51 of in class with Dr. Gray Car, in class with car. Hi.

0:22.1

Hey, Oprah, how are you? You know what? First, let me say thank you. Thank you everyone all over the world, wherever you are joining us, you have made this into a thing that I don't think can be stopped or let me appropriately frame

0:36.3

it should not be stopped I'm grateful for that I'm also grateful for you I know we're

0:41.1

going to talk today about Stevie Wonder moving to know we're going to talk today about Stevie Wonder, moving to Ghana, we're

0:44.7

going to talk about Coca-Cola, erasing whiteness. But I want to start off talking about the black church because the PBS documentary two-part series of

0:57.8

course presented by skip gates funded by the Ford Foundation produced by John Legend, a whole bunch of names,

1:04.0

I filed in it, is the kind of documentary that I would be rubbing my hands to go watch. I couldn't wait to see it.

1:10.0

And because of you, I'm now looking through a different lens.

1:15.0

I'm going to blame you for me not enjoying it

1:20.0

at the level that I think I should because I'm not scrutinizing.

1:23.4

And I'm asking the question. So before I ask you a question about it, I want to

1:27.2

thank the Black Church and PBS because it sent me down several rabbit holes

1:31.8

in the first part, you know, like

1:35.0

Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Huh. So I was. Oh, damn. You talk. Yeah, and I'm

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so I was like, oh, I think he was a white man passing for black.

1:45.0

And a time when being a mediocre poor white man wasn't as valuable as being a black man that was that light skin to

1:53.8

did so that sent me down that rabbit hole we're going to talk about that later with

1:57.2

Coca-Cola I also like took some notes Vashty McKinsey I got I knew who she was, but then as I'm researching,

2:06.1

because that's what we should be doing when we're watching these things go down these

2:08.8

rabbit holes, I'm like, oh, her grandmother on her mother's side was one of the founding members of

2:14.0

the doctors at Howard and her and her granddaddy was a newsman a black

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