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This Is Karen Hunter

S E520: In Class with Carr, Ep. 72: Van Jones and the $100 Million Question (and the Olympics)

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Documentary filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper joins #InClasswithCarr to discuss the origins of the #Olympics, Blackness and protest focusing on the 1936 and 1968 Olympics. We also examine Jeff Bezos's "gifts" in an arc of "philanthropy capitalism." There's also a brief discussion about the #Tuskegee syphilis study and the fear of the #vaccine.


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This is Karen Hunter and welcome to in class with

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car, Dr. Gray Car, 72nd episode. We are here and let me say good morning to you. Good afternoon. My brother.

0:27.0

Happy Saturday, happy weekend. It's always good to see you professor. Good to see you sister love you and narrative continues to grow how I feel like you know

0:37.1

the work that is never ending but it also time you pink is put up's like watching us, she feels so sad at what she doesn't know.

0:45.6

She's very well read.

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She's like, I'm one the most well read people I know and I still don't know anything.

0:50.4

And I'm like, I'm excited because every time you drop a breadcrum, I go on this journey and then I'm like, okay, what else? And then it takes me down rabbit holes and now I'm like, okay, once we do this, it'll be here forever.

1:04.6

So I'm excited because future generations are going to benefit from your genius.

1:09.0

So from our collective genius, from your genius, my and time you,

1:13.4

everyone listening, sharing to folks who are having comments

1:16.7

and having whole conversations and narrative

1:18.9

and everyone's commenting in the live chat today, and all of that because we are all we all have

1:26.4

that feeling the more that I read the more I study I think we all had that

1:31.0

experience the more we know we don't know and the more we want to know and the more we want to do something which reading and studying and having these conversation is doing something people make artificial distinction artificial distinction between, well, I see we're reading,

1:44.8

y'all talking about history, but who are we going to do something? That is doing something. So we are doing something together and we all

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have that feeling. You know what's crazy about you? doing something

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that you, that you know, and I like go read the book and I'm like,

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and I'm like, hey, did you realize that this, and it'll tie in person, and I'm like, hey, did you realize that this and it'll tie in person?

2:04.4

And I'm like, did he just know I'll bring up something you just look around and then

2:07.7

there'll be a literal book and you ain't know we're gonna talk about it.

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So I do believe that, you know, all of this is ordained and is divine

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Providence, but there's something really special about you. So I just want you to just bask in that. Don't even, don't push back.

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