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The Glenn Show

Erec Smith – Free Black Thought

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”?

13:34 Classical liberalism’s role in Free Black Thought

15:07 Erec: I saw things while working as a diversity officer that I can’t unsee

22:47 Why the Democratic Party doesn’t like Erec

30:38 How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community

36:16 Erec: The onus is on us, not affirmative action, to prepare black students for college

45:19 What is rhetoric, anyway?

Recorded November 13, 2023

Links and Readings

Erec’s nonprofit, Free Black Thought

Journal of Free Black Thought

Free Black Thought’s podcast

Minnesota’s Take Charge program

The Hidden Genius Project

Glenn’s essay in the Journal of Free Black Thought, “Wrestle Not against Flesh and Blood”



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Hello everybody.

0:47.0

This is Glenn Lowry.

0:48.0

You've tuned into the Glenn Show.

0:50.0

I'm with Eric Smith.

0:51.0

Eric, you want to introduce yourself?

0:52.8

Yes, as you already heard I am Eric Smith.

0:56.6

I am the president and co-founder of the Black Thought and professor of rhetoric at your

1:02.2

College of Pennsylvania.

1:04.0

What else? I am a research fellow at the Cato Institute,

1:08.0

specifically on politics and society.

1:12.0

Let's see what else. I'm a Pisces.

1:15.0

E. NFP on Myrias Briggs. Yeah, I guess that's it.

1:22.0

Okay, this is Eric Smith. Yeah, I guess that's it.

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Okay, this is Eric Smith.

1:26.0

When this last time I saw you,

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