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This Is Karen Hunter

S E67: "We Are Enough!" (Part 1)

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Billionaire Robert Smith pledged to pay off the student loan debt of Morehouse's Class of 2019. But is an education in America today worth it? Karen discusses this over three parts with Karen Taylor Bass and Lurie Daniel Favors (from a powerful #WellnessWednesday).

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and I have a feature called Wellness Wednesday and it has evolved over the years of course we have doctors and psychologists and psychiatrists and host of other medical professionals and people that specialize in Pilates and things like that and fitness and wellness.

0:27.0

But usually we talk about the global majority and usually the conversations is around the global majority spiritual wellness.

0:34.7

So this particular Wednesday I was sitting with

0:37.3

Loree Favors, Afro State of Mind, that's her handle on Twitter and Instagram, who's my normal

0:42.3

partner in crime on a wellness

0:43.7

Wednesday and Karen Taylor Bass who's part of the hub you can check out her

0:47.5

podcast chapter two right here on the hub please check her out because she's

0:51.4

amazing but we had a quite interesting conversation the hub, please check her out because she's amazing.

0:53.0

But we had a quite interesting conversation

0:55.3

that I broke into three parts.

0:57.0

This is part one.

0:57.9

I hope you enjoy.

0:59.0

Hit me up on Twitter at Karen Hunter.

1:01.8

Speaking of which Robert F. Smith, his donation, apparently the billionaire, richest man in America,

1:07.6

black man, excuse me.

1:09.4

Which is, he should be even more rich and may he be even more rich. Now his net worth is because when he was on a

1:16.2

Forbes list it was 4.4 billion but now he's up to 6 billion so it is

1:20.3

increasing his 40 million dollar grant to help the graduating class of Morehouse is a drop in the water for him.

1:26.4

But it's also a drop in the water for the total student loan debt, which is over a trillion dollars,

1:31.1

1.5 trillion dollars. and for the people in this room who both

1:35.8

have children who you are I'm sure saving for their education and who both have gone

1:40.2

to school and have watched the numbers increase exponentially is an education

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