S E461: In Class with Carr, Ep. 54: The History of Kings and Queens and the Haitian Revolution
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Dr. Greg Carr (@africanacarr on Twitter) breaks down the history of monarchies and how Africans view kings and queens. Also, as promised a brief history of the Haitian Revolution and what we can learn today from that struggle for freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and We are here today to talk about the Royals, the African Royals. |
| 0:19.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.6 | That's true. Let's you up a little bit, yeah's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. |
| 0:24.0 | Nice. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm sick and tired of listening to people talk about the world. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm kind of like, I'm over it. |
| 0:32.0 | But you know, during this conversation and we had |
| 0:34.6 | Dr. Shula on my radio show on serious exam and of course I talked about it after I |
| 0:40.3 | didn't watch it that day I watched it the next day and I was like this is all about |
| 0:46.0 | colonialism oppression like |
| 0:49.7 | Yes, so I said Dr. Carr can we can we have a conversation about the true kings and queens? |
| 0:54.6 | What does it mean to be king and queen? |
| 0:56.0 | We call each other kings and queens. |
| 0:58.0 | We come from, we do. |
| 0:59.2 | A royalty. |
| 1:00.2 | What is that mean, you know, outside of the bastardization, you know, outside of this, this, you know, it's quite my best friend in college, her mom, they're from Bermuda, so I spent a summer in Bermuda my freshman year and her mother was a school teacher. |
| 1:16.2 | He talked about going to grad school in England and how the school I think was Cambridge put all of the African and Caribbean students in a room and taught them how to brush their teeth. |
| 1:26.0 | Now they're looking at these raggedy mouth, brown stay missing, teeth thick, crooked, you know, |
| 1:34.0 | little bit. |
| 1:35.0 | And all of the Africans have the beautiful piano keys. |
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