John McWhorter and Ian Rowe – Who Speaks for Black America?

0:00 Al Sharpton’s National Action Network still exists, apparently

5:00 MLK’s understanding of America’s contributions to democracy

12:58 Are the “people with three names” grifters or merely limited in their racial vision?

21:07 How do you change the minds of black voters?

30:13 The national black leadership vacuum

36:30 The under-recognized success of the black middle class

41:30 Ian’s got a four-point plan …

47:38 … but what’s the best way to disseminate it? (It’s podcasts.)

51:37 The paradox of Obama and Thomas

1:01:01 How does Glenn know “nobody is coming to save us”?

Recorded April 9, 2023

Links and Readings

Ian’s book, Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power

Ian’s charter school network, Vertex Partnership Academies

Al Sharpton’s National Action Network

Pew poll on black political strategy and leadership

AEI’s study, “Black Men: Making It in America” 

Richard Reeves’s book, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It

Thomas Sowell speaking at the 1980 Fairmont Conference

Clarence Thomas’s memoir, My Grandfather’s Son 

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