S E49: "The Half Has Never Been Told" (Part 1)

This Is Karen Hunter

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

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🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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As part of her book series, Karen Hunter is breaking down one of the most surgical explanations of the economic impact of slavery on America in Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told. For anyone who says, "slavery was long ago, get over it!"...they need to read this book because there is no American greatness without slavery. It is foundational. This is Part 1.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I had the pleasure of interviewing Stepman Graham recently. He just wrote a book on leadership and the
0:18.0	thrust of his book is self-reliance. He posits that if we focus on ourselves and building ourselves and overcoming our
0:26.7	insecurities and building our confidence and mapping out our goals that we can
0:32.1	achieve great things and I actually agree with him.
0:35.2	He says you know don't worry about racism, don't worry about sexism, xenophobia, none of those things
0:40.8	matter.
0:41.8	All that matters is you.
0:43.3	And you, if you come together with yourself
0:46.5	and focus on the things that you want to accomplish,
0:49.2	we'll be able to do that.
0:50.3	And I'm living proof of that.
0:53.0	So are many of people who are listening to my voice right now?
0:55.4	You have overcome great adversity.
0:57.6	You have pushed through many obstacles,
0:59.8	whether they were family obstacles of the world,
1:01.6	obstacles to be where you are right now.
1:04.5	A lot of you every day are working towards your happy place.
1:07.7	You're working on the things in your life
1:09.4	and eradicating the things in your life
1:10.9	that make you unhappy and you're moving towards that and we should
1:13.4	absolutely do that.
1:14.6	As a matter of fact, much of this space is devoted to the things that you individually
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