This episode of In Class With Carr questions how long white nationalism can keep straining the political system before the contradictions at its core break the federation itself.
Karen Hunter and Dr. Greg Carr connect today’s racially charged Southern gerrymandering fights to the country’s founding racial logic, moving from court battles in Virginia to Supreme Court-backed anti-Black legislative fights in Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama.
Together, these conflicts show that organized power, not faith in local, state, or federal institutions, has always shaped change in the U.S. social structure.
Drawing on comedian Roy Wood Jr. and his reflections on the importance of Black communities, the Black-led human rights movement of the Second Reconstruction and today’s coalition politics.
As disinformation, authoritarian politics and legal attacks on voting rights continue to escalate, this session reminds us that “everything ends” — including systems built on white racial domination. More inclusive and equitable social structures can emerge when people organize and fight for them together.
