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In Class with Carr

S E470: In Class with Carr, Ep. 57: Lil Nas X & What's Hell Through an Africana Lens?

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

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

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Greg Carr breaks down the messages and the meaning of Lil Nas X's latest and how it should be viewed through an Africana studies lens. There will also be a brief discussion of Gil Scott Heron, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone and the killing of MLK. Carr ties it all together while dropping bars and singing tunes.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the 57th episode of in class with Dr. Gray Carter.

0:16.0

We just say good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everyone all over the globe,

0:19.6

the largest African-A studies classroom in the world. And let me say good morning and afternoon to my brother. the The class is in class with car.

0:32.8

Don't start till you get here.

0:34.0

Oh Lord, Lord.

0:35.8

We both can't be last minute reading and then forget the time.

0:39.8

Exactly.

0:40.8

I don't know like that.

0:41.8

In the words of Michael Joseph Jackson, we must remember the time.

0:45.0

But that was this one this one was on this time this time I was I was caught up in class with a bunch of ancestors. But some of them coming in here

0:53.5

today so. Well listen they are always invited and I'm grateful that they are

0:57.4

present. You know we had a great conversation this week. We're talking

1:00.9

about the great Howard Thurman and you know we're filling up spaces and

1:06.0

narrative and I just want to say thank you this is the last day for an introductory offer and this was all

1:11.0

about you know the the early adopters, you know,

1:14.4

y'all little ones putting those first bricks down

1:16.3

to this pyramid that we're building and we're building it in real time

1:19.2

and we're building it up transparently.

1:21.8

And you know, you said something really really profound it's like there's an

1:24.8

intimacy with the bricks that are being laid that's what you said to me on Wednesday

1:28.9

yesterday we're building it together and what you said it prompted me to think that was you gave the example of the great pyramids and when we look at the ones that on the Giza plateau the ones that are still trying to figure out how they built.

1:45.0

One thing is for certain, they were built by hand.

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