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🗓️ 30 June 2024
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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
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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0:46.0 | 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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