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The Glenn Show

Winkfield Twyman Jr. & Jennifer Richmond – Black Identity's Divisive History [Bonus Episode]

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Great writing is “a marriage of life and honesty”

3:20 Glenn: I am my book’s primary audience

8:00 Glenn the Rationalist vs Glenn the Believer

18:00 How much did Glenn’s socio-economic status affect his sense of black belonging?

24:26 The radical rhetoric of privileged African Americans

29:38 Against reparations

33:57 A raised fist, but not a hand out

40:27 Colorblindness in theory and practice

50:11 Is race orthodoxy the first step on the road to totalitarianism?

1:03:01 Self-reliance and individualism

Recorded June 26, 2024

Links and Readings

Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Jennifer and Winkfield’s book, Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race

Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins’s book, Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party

Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker’s cookbook, Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”

Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

Sheena Michele Mason’s forthcoming book, The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Winkfield and Jennifer’s conversation with Angel Eduardo

Free Black Thought

Václav Havel’s book, The Power of the Powerless

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance”



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0:00.0

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empower black development across the country as we donate 10% of our profits to the

0:40.9

Woodson Center. Thank you.

0:46.0

Welcome to a new series of the Dissidence

0:49.4

podcast with my co-host, Winfield Plimman Jr. Today we are lucky to host Professor

0:56.4

Glenn Lowry who has just written a book, Late Confessions of a Black

1:02.0

Conservative and this book has there is confessions of a black conservative.

1:03.5

And this book has, there is a lot to discuss here.

1:06.5

Wink, I'm going to let you give us a little overview

1:09.3

before we get into some of our questions for Glenn. Sure, thank you, Jen, for that.

1:15.0

Yes, I'd had a chance to read Glenn's book, Late Admissions, Confessions of a Black

1:21.0

Conservative, and it's a great book. One of the things I love about this book

1:26.1

which kind of chronicles Lin's life from the south side of Chicago to where he currently is in life, is its authenticity.

1:36.3

They say that great writing is a marriage of two things, life and honesty. And I would say life plus honesty equals late

1:47.8

confession, late admissions, confessions of a black conservative. The book takes you by the hand and walks you through a man's life,

1:58.3

a man's life that begins in the South South Chicago where there is good and there is bad.

2:05.0

And you see this through the eyes of someone who is brilliant, who is talented,

2:11.0

beyond belief in mathematics at a young age and then

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