In Class with Carr, Ep. 224: “What Makes a Giant? Willie Mays and Us”

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[@JacquesWiley]

Thank U Willie Howard Mays Jr. R.I.P. Willie Mays-zing

[@sheresehinkle4889]

IRON SHARPENS IRON!!! What a blessing to see how these two brilliant minds can lovingly disagree about some things every now and then. We get to witness a wonderful example of how it’s done- thank you both for this. We also get to see the mutual respect, and praise you show to one another as you discuss the things that feed our minds and souls. Thank you, Professor Hunter and Dr. Carr, for showing up for us like you do!! We just love ya’ll.

[@rebahenderson211]

Hello Professor Hunter & Dr. Carr thank you for always being enlightening. Happy Birthday Octavia Butler, RIP your imaginationis pivotal. RIP MR WILLIE MAYS my great uncle Albert's favorite Baseball Player, he never missed a game, even if he had to hear it radio, being a Pullman Porter. And, Mr. Reggie Jackson ❤ I am so thankful you took these young people into your time today. The USA needed to remember what we have fought so hard to escape. Thank you, MR. OCTOBER ❤

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Thanks so much for the information and your commitment. From those of us at the bottom of the well.

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[@uriellevelupriley684]

30:23 🙇🏾‍♂️ This is so needed. Baba Dr Carr and Professor Hunter🔆👑🔆👑🔆 We needed all of this. Gratitude and Highest Honor and Heart Love to you. 🏆 31:58 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Reggie Jackson and Willie Mays who I'm proud to be related to through my Maternal Grand Parents. These are true Giants and Honor always is the way. Thank you for again putting the pieces together for us. 34:07 The racist structures (Blanqueamiento mentality) persist and they think they are fooling somebody. It's people like you Professor Karen that are lighting up minds all over with conversations. Love you both Hotep MAAT RA 🔆❤️🔆🗣️💎💎💎 39:05 They didn't know ish 39:29 we have made great progress. 🙏🏾 39:59 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 BABA Dr Carr this I feel you so much. 1:14:31 Nothing is sacred at that point 1:15:35 from (215)

[@gl0bal7474]

we are truly fortunate to watch these two great minds exchange ideas in this format. brilliant discussion

[@kblack3970]

While stationed in Japan, I had the honor of purchasing a signed baseball card and ball from Dennis Biddle of the Chicago American Giants! I could only listen to him tell his story wishing i could articulate my appreciation for him with an ounce of baseball knowledge, but could only rep my home town of Newark NJ. which put a smile on his face. If I were a Knubian at that time,... Thank You! I misspelled his name initially, but Had to edit that!

[@timfields]

Love you, Professor Hunter and Dr. Carr. Keep up the Great Work!

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[@DamienFoster-t5e]

Dr Carr is a treasure to the African community!!!

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When they turn those electronic devices off!!..Lord knows we better listen to this man teach!!!! ❤❤

[@quietstorm6710]

Powerful❤

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Thank you Prof. Hunter and Dr. Carr.

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[@juanita1176]

Great show!! I've been here since the beginning, in Knubia and Knarrative.

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One of the few platforms where you can escape economic and intellectual elitism, where the focus is on the global majority of us trying to survive and make life better for those we love and care for. Thank you both.

[@vincesteele5807]

Love the dialogue between Prof. Hunter and Dr. Carr on the Kendrick concert - we DO need entry points. And if this moves us in the right direction I’m all for it! Thank you both for the clean glasses y’all continue to pour us.

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[@kevinbaker4693]

I think I tasted honey butter on these bread crumbs. UM tastes GREAT. Like a complete breakfast. Thank you again. 💓 💖

[@sunlion55]

I hate that I'm missed the live chat, they were lit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Peeling the onions for that sauce, tears before satisfaction

[@bobbywilsonfunfaithfamilymusic]

Shalom, WAKE THAT MIND UP! Dr. Carr, Professor Hunter, thank you for today's Ep.224, it was full of information and history that we need to know. You are appreciated.

[@martyreed5701]

Great show and discussion! Thank you both👏👏👏

[@kimwilliams388]

Dr. Karen Hunter don't give up. Your concept with this platform has challenged so many, including me to do more in my community. I'm very grateful for your podcasts and radio shows.

[@lindaj.925]

Good afternoon Professor Hunter and Dr Carr, God Bless both of you.

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[@Mintonyeichelberger]

Yall this was incredible! Every since Dr Carr suggested the book we are the ship ive been intriuged by the negro league history! Thanks yall!

[@Wade856]

"The only time we check white people is between the lines"... I feel that!

[@dennistaylor6342]

Sister Karen love what you do. This episode hits home with me. I’m a 64 year old black man who grew up in the Bronx. But my mother’s family is from Birmingham Alabama. She was born in Birmingham Alabama. I had relatives in that church bombing. Our family lived in the Fairfield area. And as a child of the Bronx… I remember seeing Willie Mays play for the Mets. With my dad, grandad and uncles. At the old Shea stadium 🏟️. Love what you and Dr. Carr do on this platform. And I have mad respect for Reggie Jackson, and all the black players. Baseball was a big part of my life growing up. The black men that raised me , showed me a love for the game and our contributions. They knocked down the Polo grounds… and built projects.

[@jenisereedus]

Asé Sir, was coming to give similar sentiments as a lifelong baseball and Willie Mays fan. So happy when he returned to play for my Mets in 1972!!!💙🧡 Appreciate what Dr. Carr and Prof. Hunter bring weekly, look forward to watching this after my Juneteenth Celebration today 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿❤️🖤💚🎻🎻🎻

[@p.w.7493]

Thank you, Prof. Hunter and Dr. Carr, for sharing this snippet of a day in Willie Mays' life. This serves as a stark reminder to those of us who seem to have forgotten the recent past of this ancestor and many more like him. There are many today who seem determined to take our people back if we don't wake up already, to the 'signs' of those not so long ago days. Again, we appreciate and thank you both for the many ways you share and remind us that we have the blood and indomitable spirit of our ancestors in us, and we should never forget it or give up what has already been fought for and won!! Btw, we love it that you're that 'clean glass of water', Prof. Hunter!!👏🏾👏🏾 Blessings, y'all!! 🙏🏾🖤💯

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[@kimwilliams388]

Octavia Butler was a brilliant writer, I am glad you all introduced me to her two years ago when caught an in class episode 😊

[@armonwilliams4735]

My father knew Reggie Jackson from when Reggie went to Arizona State. He and my father would interact with each other when my father was in the army reserves. Reggie was originally supposed to play football at Arizona State University, but he refused to play for head coach Frank Kush because he had a reputation for being a slave driver of a coach. Ironically, Barry Bonds would later go on to play his college baseball career at Arizona State University as well.

[@carolynfrink5569]

Professor Hunter, we need you! I am a doctoral candidate, and the knowledge I have gained through Office Hours and Knarrative has been amazing, and I am so grateful for your work and Babba Carr. I love you and will continue to support this work!❤🖤💚✌🏿✊🏿

[@knarrative]

Wow, thank you for sharing this. Good to be in community with you!

[@enajrr]

Pls don't give up Karen.

[@edgarhayes3664]

Come on Dr. Hunter!!! Please talk about redlining, GI Bill, construction of suburbs and “ghettos”, covenants…

[@Realfreeznutz]

38:51 digital editions also undergo edits and often remove aspects that challenge whoever the powers are at that time

[@kimwilliams388]

I rather read a hard copy of book, magazine or newspaper paper anyway. Digital copies are always different. The constant updates make me wonder what is real.

[@bahiyyah69]

It is my birthday also. 74 years of learning about life. Thank you Dr Carr and Dr. Karen

[@purpleness64]

Happy born day

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🎂🎂🎂🎈🎉Have a Happy Happy Beautiful Birthday!!!

[@MrCM23]

Happy birthday to you I wish you many more years to come enjoy your special day

[@BlackBeerdedNerd]

Happy birthday

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Happy Belated Birthday!

[@tbuff954]

For many of us, the brick wall is the turning point...

[@majadi8855]

Pittsburgh Pirates all black line up Stennett, 2B Clines, CF Clemente, RF Stargell, LF Sanguillen, C Cash, 3B Oliver, 1B Hernandez, SS Ellis, P

[@enajrr]

Great convo. Dr Carr seems convinced young folks are not curiously serious. EXPERIENCE. Karen is Hope & Changey.

[@dnel7203]

They keep trying us.. & We wobble...but we don't fall down!!!

[@stephencarter4037]

The Friday morning show is really good / great chemistry !🎉

[@margaret6061]

"The job is hard to do, but only you can wear this Crown" Show them the way to go. Professor Hunter.

[@pamhall1948]

Please Karen Hunter 🙏 we need you ❤

[@sergioperezio5523]

Thank you professors. Learned a lot.

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You are welcome!

[@amiew4917]

Thank you Dr Karr for your take on Kendrick Lamar performance

[@kimwilliams388]

I loved the Cincinnati Reds too Dr. Carr And the Oakland A's my dad did too.

[@PeopleLoveJoy]

Talk more about it on KZbin please!!! not just office hours, I need to learn from you two

[@MooreVoicesMedia]

It can be a challenging journey, evolve to the point to where you find yourself worth it to "invest." The subscription is a fraction of the cost if they each had individual platforms and were selling their courses and/or time at market value.

[@DaKingisDead]

'73 me became an A's fan because of Reggie Jackson, I was 8, and I've only been to one MLB game, as an adult; bucket list moment - A's vs Astros in Oakland.

[@jeanettesdaughter]

Hmmm. I’ve heard concerning things about Willie Mays from reliable sources, progressive Black individuals and institutions in the SF Bay Area. Not rumors but reports of experiences. Concerning. We never have a need to black - wash anyone. Learning requires the whole truth, as much as we can gather. We need to look where we tripped, not where we fell. Thank you Dr Carr. You are appreciated.

[@AceRahT]

After 50 years of Rap and Hip Hop, how many more “points of entry” folks gonna get or need? At some point we have to figure out how many more times we gonna pass around this same mountain.

[@david-z1m6t]

Alot of us black folks love to babble about the same talking points lol..

[@SB-fu1ze]

Great show but please stop saying that devil is going to win…please! I literally have a panic attack every time I hear it. He’s not going to win and we have to make sure of that. Love y’all💜!

[@morrismims5327]

The reason he says the devil is going to win is because I have a brother who is a minister and I have a sister who is an educator and when I try to get them to watch this they ignore me. One because my brother has been indoctrinated with white christany and a sister who has been in those text books that was written by white men, that's why Dr. Carr says the devil is because our race is the devil because when we get well off we turn a blind eye.

[@nazimrashid2935]

I depend on this dialogue every Saturday ~ Now I cannot stand ANYBODY using the “N” word. Caucasians LOVE to see how young black folk wear it like an honorable badge. That word is a subhuman term. When “they” saw our ancestors on the continent, all they saw were subhumans who are going to make them millions. “They” want us to always think of ourselves as less-than, a “N”word. As long as we accept that word as our identity, they win. The Lynch Letters talk about this too. Then when we go to prison subconsciously a voice says we can’t do any better. This speaks to our low self esteem, self image & self confidence. And then when these rappers have Caucasians repeating the “N” word, their inner dialogue is “oh, they R accepting to be less-than, so I can call them “N” & it’s ok. They know their place.” But then outside of the music young black folk get mad when “they” call them “N.” Why R U mad now? Oh & why is it acceptable to call one another Dog?? - Dr Black suggested we call another King or Queen. What’s wrong with that?

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Hit the like button

[@MsMusixx]

Karen, about Kendrick, you always say, “chew up the meat, and spit out the bones”. We hear you!♥️

[@akaziaj]

Sadly, the Black people who live in and around the Rickwood Field couldn't afford the tickets to the game. They parked cars.

[@dbo2200]

The forced Willie Mayes into the military in his prime would have had all the records drafted him left a lot of white players home

[@dorcas60]

We must stop using the "N" word. I cringe when I hear it. Why have we taken a word that was used in a derogatory way against us, used as a term of endearment, really!😒

[@kimberlyturner4065]

My Grandmother cheered for and LOVED Reggie Jackson, now I understand why…

[@BookwormtoBookworm]

Midnight was good but also A Deep love inside.

[@asantewaaharris8185]

Professors, I recall a Black local female community leader talked about “planned shrinkage”.

[@rodericwatson7873]

we all have our contradictions whether we are aware of them or not which includes Richard Pryor Jack Johnson Martin Luther King Muhammad Ali Elijah Muhammad Kendrick Lamar Adam Clayton Powell George Clinton etc

[@kevinbrown259]

Dr.Carr, Did you know the Hank Aaron Stadium was closed in Mobile, Alabama?

[@lisaflores8801]

❤🖤💚

[@quietstorm6710]

You can't imagine black people before the trauma😮

[@geraldine7854]

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[@1maggotbrain]

All due respect respect , don’t see why Prof Karen keeps elevating Kendrick as if he has done something of significance, one millionaire calling out another Millionaire , they not like who?

[@leeleea4164]

❤

[@purpleness64]

I watched Reggie Jackson clips...

[@Realfreeznutz]

51:33 Enshitification

[@tap_water872]

Drake collaborated meaningfully with other artists across the diaspora for Karen to frankly, ignorantly discount that because she doesn’t know the catalog he’s built up.

[@KatherineThomas-sc4fx]

Drake is a culture vulture that’s what he does. Karen’s not ignorant she just knows Drake is a fraud and not worth coversation on this platform

[@Realfreeznutz]

1:11:40 Dr Carr babies don’t build muscle. Our adults were assassinated after Civil Rights movement and cremated by krakk…these babies trynna put pieces together we gotta coordinate along with our critique

[@HoustonBoyd-ls8go]

Bro Houston

[@AceRahT]

I know you want to feel like there’s something different, but these are the same kids out here with Project 2025 looming talking about “I’m not voting because both parties are the same”. Also, lest we forget Ice Cube with NWA vs now being Pro-Trump. GenX has been here before.

[@david-z1m6t]

More fear tactics no tangibles or plan of action. Same nonsense every election cycle with no benefits.

[@BookwormtoBookworm]

Let us not forget that racist story that Mr Reggie Jackson is telling occurred in the so called Bible Belt. Christianity is wonderful but That has always been my biggest gripe. Southerners understand Old Testament judgment and New Testament forgiveness but they don’t teach racism is wrong.

[@dbo2200]

I hate to go there with my early comment will be back later opened up in the middle of the book, Ice Cube goes from no Vaseline to needing it, with all this Trump foolishness, now 50 Cent, these rappers are something else