The Glenn Show Shermichael Singleton – The Shaping of a Young Black Conservative [Bonus Episode]
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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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