The Glenn Show John McWhorter – The Path Not Taken for Black Activism
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0:00 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John
0:45 Thanksgiving with Glenn and John
6:50 Glenn the patriarch
10:35 John Lewis’s legacy
15:48 Ground News ad
17:49 From John Lewis to Stokely Carmichael to Jesse Jackson to BLM
25:21 To isolate or to integrate?
27:41 What black activism could have been
32:02 John: The Black Panthers accomplished nothing
40:04 ACTA ad
42:18 James Baldwin’s “nutty” late work
44:45 James Q. Wilson’s prescient attitude toward Glenn’s leftward shift
52:43 The “conservative” absence at the National Museum of African American History
55:11 John’s investigation of contemporary Yiddish speakers
Recorded December 1, 2024
Links and Readings
David Greenberg’s book, John Lewis: A Life
Barbara Fields and Karen Fields’s book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton’s book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
Trailer for Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin’s book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Glenn’s book, Race, Incarceration, and American Values
John DiIulio Jr.’s review of Late Admissions in the Claremont Review of Books
John’s NYT column, “Yiddish is a Supposedly Dying Language That’s Thrillingly Alive”
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