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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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