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Join us on Part 1 of 2 (Episode 11) for a discussion on George Washington Carver to kick off Black History Month TwennyTWENN! We're not here for the peanut lessons you learned in school either. Colah B Tawkin has a convo with modern day Botanical Brotha and crazy botanist, Derek. We get rap with Derek and come to learn a bit about Carver's influence on him because representation matters. Part 1 of our conversation gets into Carver's 'straight out of a Toni Morrison novel' origin story, how G. Dubb C saved the economy of the south and you guessed it: academic discriminatory shade.  To be continued... . . Keep up with Derek, our #Botanicalbrotha : @botanical.highlander on Instagram The Crazy Botanist on Facebook and Youtube (subscribe!) Visit TheCrazybotanist.com . . Sow a seed of Support for the podcast and become a PATRON! patreon.com/blackinthegarden Visit linktr.ee/blackinthegarden for all Black in the Garden Everythang!! Drop a line: Blackinthegarden@gmail.com #Blackinthegarden --- This episode is sponsored by · Charity Promotion: BallotReady: The goal of this initiative is to increase voter education and encourage your listeners to get the vote out during the 2020 General Election this November. https://www.ballotready.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blackinthegarden/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blackinthegarden/support