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🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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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 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics
7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era
9:05 Why Shermichael is a conservative
12:48 The two sides of black “progress”
17:24 Shermichael: Identity matters, even for conservatives
21:54 How Shermichael got booted from the Trump administration
28:26 Shermichael’s relatively positive assessment of Trump’s presidency
32:29 Was Trump’s post-election behavior good for conservatism?
37:43 The counterintuitive Evangelical support for Trump
40:41 Shermichael’s mentors at Morehouse
50:17 Encountering Thomas Sowell and Glenn
56:19 What Ben Carson is up to these days
58:51 The major intellectual influences on Glenn
Recorded January 4, 2024
Links and Readings
Shermichael’s Ebony piece, “Young, Gifted (Conservative, Republican) and Black” (scroll down)
Shermichael’s the Hill piece, “A Republican asks: Aren’t we morally obliged to stand up to Trump,” that got him fired
Rev. Dr. Robert Michael Franklin on Morehouse
American Cornerstone Institute
The Shermichael Singleton Show on Apple Podcasts
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0:46.4 | Hello everybody, this is Glenn Lowry. |
0:48.0 | You've tuned into the Glenn show. |
0:51.2 | I am Mertens Stokes Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University and John Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute which sponsors the Glenn Show. |
1:02.6 | And I am here with Schir Michael Singleton, |
1:06.4 | who is a young African-American, Republican political |
1:10.0 | strategist and television radio personality covering politics and so forth and |
1:17.9 | active in campaign politics on the Republican side of the aisle and I welcome you to the show. |
1:25.0 | It's an honor to be with you Professor Lowry, I mean your reputation speaks for itself. So I'm excited to have this dialogue. |
1:36.0 | Graduate of Morehouse College. |
1:38.0 | What year? |
1:39.0 | Morehouse, 2012. |
1:41.0 | Oh, that recently. I mean, I am only 33, Professor Lowry. I got a lot of more years to mature, as they say. |
1:52.0 | Well. years to mature as they say. Well my youngest son is 32. So there we go. So you |
2:00.1 | technically can be my father, there we go. |
2:03.0 | Or grandfather if you were. |
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