Good morning Prof. Hunter, Dr. Carr and family. Thank you for loving us- thank you for feeding us. Thank you for the WE!!!!! Your commitment and sacrifice, in this day and age is unreal. Much love and respect for all you do!!!!!! Peace and Blessings to the fullest.
What a special human being you are-Prof Hunter, along with brother Roland Martin to bring us a walking library with a huge heart- named Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr, and Reecie Colbert and my gurl Heather B. I am forever in depth to you for introducing me/we to Dr. Daniel Black, my spirit is in AWE with this soul. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!
While watching, "The Mark of the Hawk", with Sydney Poitier and Eartha Kitt, I felled in love with professor Hunter and Dr. Carr all over again. ❤ I now watch movies through your lens to understand. That movie is the missing link to the madness we now live in. Sydney Poitier played. Wait for it!....Obam. the movie came out in 1957. It was about the hostility between British colonist and African villagers trying to reclaim their land. A powerful must see movie.
Professor Hunter thank you for sharing your gifts with us. I live in Georgia and in my backyard I have planted various friut trees and they have started producing fruit. Today when you spoke about how our people endured the boycott and embraced "NAH" and shared their bounty with each other and surpassed their oppressors intentions. I love gardening and raising poultry. It comes naturally and listening to your show on Saturdays have open up so many tangible blessing for me. And I'm thankful for your being and essence ❤❤!!
Thank you, Prof. Hunter, and Dr. Carr, for a most interesting Episode 195 of ICWC!! I ❤️ this Class and I love your commitment to educating our people!! Btw, Dr. Carr, you're a great storyteller!!🙏🏾🖤💯
Good Day Professor Hunter and Dr. Carr. Thank you both for another amazing educational program. Please continue to weave this dynamic, multicultural, multidimensional quilt. Love and Shalom ❤️❤️
And thank you for introducing us to Dr. Lurie D Favors. Thank you Dr. Carr for introducing Prof. Hunter to Dr. Daniel Black and for her passing the love onto US. The Most High be working for sure-through you all. Thank you so very much!!!
Thank you- I am so very humbled!! Thank you also for inviting all of us over to the KHS. I usually watch RU-vid videos using the television. I just started using my computer- so that I can send comments of praise that I have been holding in long enough. Just consider me the Gratitude Corner- even though no amount of thank yous could ever be enough. Still-thank you with much love and respect.
Having a solid sense of integrity is *paramount* especially in these times. Prof Hunter's comment that many don't know what's right or wrong because of all the immoral, successful people in power is REAL and apparent.
Karen you're right about debates, we don't need a win lose environment but a win win one. Creating an environment for healing and coming together for the benefit of us as a people and the world in general is what matters.
It is never about individual feelings and what's convenient. There is right and wrong in this world. Somehow, and maybe the majority of us have it twisted and our moral compass has shifted in the wrong direction. We are not in the majority where right and wrong is concerned.
A reflective essay from my 2020 African American Experience Class: Sparks! What forces come together to spark a national movement, whether it be the right to have equal access to public transportation, or access to fair and equal housing? What forces come together to spark national outrage and protest over the senseless murder of a young Black boy, whether it be in the 1950s segregated South or the 2010s modern South? The forces of time, morality, injustice, pain, discrimination, white supremacy, anti-blackness, lived experience, systemic/institutional racism coalesce with media attention to catapult a single event into the nation’s consciousness, which causes people to finally echo and internalize the famous words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “I’m sick and tired, of being sick and tired.” Paula Giddings’ chapter on “Dress Rehearsal for the Sixties” is the most comprehensive historical account that I’ve read of the Montgomery Bus Boycott movement, which lasted over a year, starting on December 5, 1955. Rosa Parks’ act of defiance was not a spur of the moment decision made by just an ordinary woman. Parks was extremely connected to the Montgomery activist community by her association (Secretary) with E. D. Nixon, who was the regional director of the Sleeping Car Porters Union and President of the local chapter of the NAACP. Giddings mentions that Parks was “morally clean and {had} fairly good academic training.” What Giddings doesn’t mention is that Rosa Parks attended a 1955 workshop at Myles Horton’s famed Highlander Folk School, which was a leadership training site for Southern civil rights activists of all races. This type of experience and connections, coupled with the buildup of slights suffered by Parks and others that Parks knew resulted in her being in the right place at the right time to assert her human rights by simply refusing to move from a bus seat that sparked the modern civil rights movement. Three-plus months before the Montgomery bus boycott the country was rocked by the killing of Chicago native Emmett Till in Money, MS. It’s no coincidence that Montgomery happened after Till’s murder and his mother’s (Mamie Till) decision to open the casket and allow pictures to be taken to show the nation how her son was mutilated for the alleged act of whistling at a white female grocery store owner. “In Montgomery, Rosa Parks attended a rally for Till, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.” Parks herself mentioned that when she chose not to get up and move to the rear of the bus that she “thought of Emmett Till and I just couldn’t go back.” Daisy Bates, who Giddings profiled, was President of the NAACP in Little Rock, AK when the community made the decision to abide by the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education ruling in 1957 to integrate Central High School. She talked about that spark: “to decide if it’s going to be this generation or never….Events in history occur when the time has ripened for them, but they need a spark. Little Rock was the spark at that stage of the struggle of the American Negro for justice.” “Montgomery and Little Rock in turn would ignite the next spark in the struggle three years later, when four students from North Carolina A&T State University staged a sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro. Elijah Anderson’s “Emmett & Trayvon” connects the high-profile deaths/murders of two Black boys fifty-six years apart. “The deaths of both boys galvanized the nation, drew sympathy and disbelief across racial lines, and, through the popular media, prompted a reexamination of race relations.” However, Anderson makes the distinction that Emmett Till’s murder came from a place of hatred and Trayvon Martin’s from a place of bias and stereotypes. Martin and Ahmaud Arbery’s death (February 2020) are similar in the outrage and impact that was felt by the Nation. Trayvon Martin is not the Emmett Till of our times. George Floyd’s death in 2020, which sparked a National Protest movement that is causing individuals, institutions and governments to critically study the structural and systemic racism and inequalities in the USA is on par with Till’s death in terms of impact. It was the final spark in a series of outrageous murders and killings of black boys, men and women that sparked the current revolution that we are witnessing and are a part of at the moment. Anderson’s “Iconic ghetto” concept, that “Black people of all classes, including those born and raised far from the inner cities and those who’ve never been in a ghetto, are by virtue of skin color alone stigmatized by the place” has its elements of truth, which is evident in the “Crisis in Levittown, PA” video that I watched. For many, but not all of their White suburban neighbors in 1957, a middle class Black family with an army veteran and electrical engineer as head of household and a mother who was an educator who would eventually become a principal elicited fears amongst those neighbors of violence, economic loss in property values, status, and inter-marriage. That’s a heavy weight to attribute to one Black family moving into your neighborhood, but I was struck by what one righteous and inclusive neighbor said, that’s a “White problem and not a Negro problem; it’s the feelings of the majority group that will influence the property values, not the minority group.” I like his way of thinking, that what many in this country have perceived as a Negro/Black Problem for centuries is actually a “White Problem.” As another Levittown resident so eloquently stated, “it’s a test of democracy, the right of the Myers’ family to live like Americans and be accepted as good neighbors.” That’s what all Americans should aspire to do, allow us all to be judged on the content of our character and not the color of our skin” as we interact with one another. I’m still hoping for that day, nearly 60 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered those same thoughts on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in his famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Speech in 1963.
Hello Dr. Carr I'm wondering if you are aware or is there is any truth in, their being a black burial ground under the building of the National Constitution Center in Philly.
Karen, you may want to find a way to put the “live” videos on the “Video” tab. Whats happening is that after the videos premiere, they’re not on the videos “tab” and onlookers may be confused
Dr. Carr always reminds me that we are African first. Throughout my career, I've always been the one fighting with our non-melanated cousins to bring in people who want to "take your job." Training your replacement is a better way of saying that. Thank you, both, for confirming for me that my thinking hasn't been flawed. You may be able to imagine the criticism I received for trying to lift others up.
Another yet ihighly nteresting conversation! Yes! Thank you both for keeping it not only informative, but "real!" Planning ahead with many knowledgeable people is great to hear! Truly thank you for all the learning taking place! I'd like to find a way to become even more active.
Professor Hunter, the shared love that we see from you and Dr. Carr is beautiful. We are all more engaged and vocal based on you and Dr. Carr's confidence. Your presence in our Black space is appreciated!
It’s pitiful that celebrities donate money after the man made disasters by the govt- (they insult the usa people by giving peanuts) but then the usa govt give to other countries when they have disasters and especially give them money at times of war...
It was the interview with Ragev, whom he challenged and didn't capitulate to, also Greenblatt a few weeks earlier said on Sharpon's show on why are they showing the Palestinian sides grief, instead of the Israeli Grandmothers. God knows ALL and Sees all!
