In Class with Carr

S E1274: In Class with Carr, Ep. 274: "The Ballot, The Book and The Buck”


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Black self-determination and liberation requires a holistic and strategic integration of political power, cultural memory, and economic self-determination. Across a week of reflection, convenings, and engagement, from Birmingham’s Civil Rights Historical District to Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Avenue to Daytona’s Paul Laurence Dunbar House and Wilberforce Ohio’s National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center, we center the urgency of reclaiming and redefining learning, community, citizenship, institution building and governance on African terms.

The Ballot represents more than just voting, though that is an essential element of civic participation: It symbolizes collective potential power. The long fight against voter suppression is revealed by the fracturing myth of inclusion within a settler colonial state to be a potent weapon for realizing collective power. As W.E.B. Du Bois and others demonstrate, the struggle for political power is communitarian, not individualist—and the US South remains a battleground, not of defeat, but of underutilized potential.

The Book highlights the liberatory role of education, historical memory, and cultural knowledge. Case studies of figures like Martin Delany show how Black communities must resist erasure and re-center themselves as global actors in a world system undergoing transformation. Reclaiming narratives that fostering an understanding of internal governance formations is necessary to recover agency.

The Buck calls for an economic awakening—exposing capitalism’s lie of meritocracy and the theft of public wealth. Reimagining collective economics through community interdependence, strategic ownership, and global solidarity becomes a compelling path forward. From the ruins of racial capitalism, a new economic ethos must emerge, rooted in mutual aid and sovereignty.

Voting, reading, and spending must be done with vision and unity. “We’ll find a way, or make one” is not merely a slogan—it’s a generational imperative in the ongoing struggle to complete the unfinished work of Black freedom and transformation.

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