Corey Brooks – Changing Black Lives on the South Side of Chicago
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 Why Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy
3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes of society
10:16 Black opposition to Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status
18:29 Why Corey supports the police
21:47 Support for New Beginnings from outside Chicago
23:25 The Rooftop Pastor
25:00 Corey’s embrace of conservatism
29:56 Project HOOD
33:04 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closure of test schools
37:02 Class differences within the black community
Recorded January 31, 2024
Links and Readings
Corey’s Tablet piece, “America Works. DEI Doesn’t.”
Inc covers the Elon Musk-Mark Cuban DEI exchange
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| 0:37.0 | Hello everybody, this is Glenn Lowry. You've tuned in to the Glenn show I'm with |
| 0:46.2 | Pastor Corey Brooks of the New Beginnings Church in Chicago and he is the CEO of Project Hood, H-O-O-D, helping others obtain destiny, |
| 0:59.0 | which is, I gather an extension of his ministry in Chicago and we're here to talk about |
| 1:05.8 | what's going on in the hood so to speak and how it relates to what's going on in |
| 1:11.8 | the newspapers and magazines about |
| 1:13.4 | DEI, race, and inequality in America. So thanks very much, Pastor Brooks for |
| 1:18.9 | joining. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to be on and thank you for allowing me to speak on your platform. |
| 1:26.2 | It's a tremendous blessing. |
| 1:28.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, it's my pleasure. |
| 1:30.0 | It's my honor to be honest with you. |
| 1:31.6 | I've heard about your work from Robert Woodson and from |
| 1:34.8 | Eli Steele and Shelby Steele. And just from following what's going on in Chicago day to day. That's my hometown. I haven't lived there since the late 1970s but that's my hometown. I still care. |
| 1:47.0 | Absolutely. This is your neighborhood too, right? Woodlawn? Well I didn't actually live in Woodlawn. I lived in Park Manor when I was going up as a kid, but it's not very far. Not at all far. |
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