Stop it; don't fall for the bamboozle. Who, pray tell, is trying to silence the Great Glenn? Stop it. Nobody is trying to silence Glenn and if there were, he would have named names, or at least one name, no? Glenn, obviously, believes that nobody can save us but us, and all his rhetoric is premised from that fundamental belief. But most folks have help. As Obama is infamous for having said, "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that." You got help, and Blacks need help too - their internal problems notwithstanding. QED
Basta, no caigas en la trampa. ¿Quién, por favor, está tratando de silenciar al Gran Glenn? Basta ya. Nadie está intentando silenciar a Glenn y si lo hubiera, habría dado nombres, o al menos un nombre, ¿no? Glenn, obviamente, cree que nadie puede salvarnos salvo nosotros, y toda su retórica se basa en esa creencia fundamental. Pero la mayoría de la gente tiene ayuda. Como Obama es famoso por haber dicho: «Alguien ayudó a crear este increíble sistema estadounidense que tenemos y que os ha permitido prosperar. Alguien invirtió en carreteras y puentes. Si tienes un negocio, no lo construiste tú». Tú recibiste ayuda, y los negros también la necesitan, a pesar de sus problemas internos. Finalmente, cuando escribí este comentario en inglés, fue borrado, así que aunque Glenn no está siendo silenciado, yo sí. Sospecho que este en español también será borrado. Veamos. QED
Actually, he's not. I don't mean that negatively, it's just that all he does from what his supporters on my feed show is provide a counter argument to anti-racism. My proof; everyone knows that white cops aren't driving around looking for Black men to shoot and kill, that's hyperbole. However there have been Black people killed by Cops and civilians where the killing just should not have happened. Also, it's been proven in study that there are many areas of America where Black people make up a small segment of the population but account for most of the traffic stops and violations.
I'm younger than Glenn, but I definitely get where he's coming from. And, as someone a generation behind him, I was more than a little confused by seeing the behaviors he described lived out by some of my own family members. Especially when I heard the sermons on Sunday. But I digress. It's been more than a little bit of a journey going from devouring Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines novels, to Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter, watching the Black Guys podcast and now the Glenn Show. I am very, very glad Glenn is out there. Black America needs to hear what he's saying, but so does the rest of the world who looks more than a little bit at Black America. May we be blessed with many more years of his mind and voice. ☦☦☦
I know his message is more towards black people and their particular circumstances but his message is also universal. I always learn something from him.
As a Black British Londoner, this message resonates with me. Our working class communities are mixed races, with white, black and brown struggling, succeeding and failing together. Americas obsession with ethnicity saddens me
@@charlesgordon5156 yeah but you guys are obsessed with class and that's just as disturbing. every country has its own unique cultural baggage/dysfunction..
Dr Loury, , this extended soliloquy was your best so far! I gotta go buy the book. Ive been watching your videos for years, especially your conversations with Dr Mcworter. Yall help me understand so much, Please keep doing it!!
Glenn is a man of Truth and Uncommon Intellect. I am grateful to have found him and his channel. His story is amazing in many ways, but also common in many. I, too, lived many of the same realities in the inner city growing up. These realities have never been better described than within this video. So familiar are those realities to those of us having lived tough upbringings. Glenn was blessed with great intellect and drive which allowed him an illustrious career. We need to strive to do better, all people from the “Hood.” Hard work pays off!
I watch Prof. Loury occasionally when the subject matches my interest. His honesty and based opinions always impresses me. As an immigrant and visible minority, I understand how difficult it is for him to speak on this a topic like this. That is why I am all the more respect him as a person and as an intellectual.
Glenn , I have enjoyed your podcasts for years . On education it is not just money , more importantly it is are students taught the basics or are not taught the basics ...
As a young woman, I wish we had a loving, yet stern and wise intellectual like Dr. Loury to guide us against the 4B craziness. But instead, we have radical feminists egging us to sterilize ourselves. I feel so embarrassed by everyone losing their minds.😖 😭🤦🏼♀
@@-----GOD----- I mentioned I'm a young white female to highlight that although Dr. Loury was addressing the unique challenges of his (black) community, there are parallels in how toxic activism affects women too. I feel we need more positive role models who encourage us to empower ourselves as individuals (like Glenn does), rather than treat us as pawns in activism and politics. But I understand it came off like being white mattered to the issue I mentioned, while in fact, it doesn't. Hope that helps. 🙂
Thank you for this. I've gained so much more respect for you while listening to this. We are close to the same age. My parents moved to Baltimore from Newport News, Va when I was 15 urs old. My father was a penicostal preacher who married and raised 9 children. He wad poor. But, he was one of the best men that I've ever known. He taught me standards and values. Becsuse of him Im who I am today. l am now an educator in the DC pubic school system. Like you, I can not or will forget my people.
Glenn, thank you for your voice and passion. The West sits on the precipice of devouring itself. *YOU* are among the people who are trying to sound the alarm and save it. And, i thank you. We must be diligent if we are to turn it around. We fell asleep for decades while insidious forces were working to deconstruct humanity. I am 63 years old. I can look back through my lifetime and see our demise.
Dr. Loury, I sincerely appreciated this video. In listening to your personal story, there is much we have in common. Those of us who were blessed, fortunate, committed and effective in doing something positive with our lives can simultaneously see the injustices and inequities Black people experience, and the bad choices and harmful resignations that perpetuate the depressed conditions too many of our people generationally experience. One need not be an intellectual to both recognize and wrestle (intellectually and emotionally) with that dichotomy. I certainly do. That said, these are the discussions we should have within our community. Owning up to the importance of stressing individual accountability, self-reliance and commitment to personal development is as important as protesting bad policing, institutional bias and disparities in the housing and schools in Black communities. However, let's move away from liberal or conservative labels with these matters. Instead, let's focus on honest and constructive discussion on these issues and options for solutions that will benefit both our people and our country.
I don't want government schools "adequately funded" -- they are overfunded and all the pathology today is either directly or indirectly their fruit. I want government indoctrination centers defunded. We need parents and the free market in charge of education .
END COMPULSORY SCHOOLING. ANY NEW POLITICAL PROGRAM OF THIS NEW CENTURY SHOULD BE EVALUATED BY ITS ABILITY TO STATE THE NEED FOR A NEW EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM; ONE WHICH MAINTAINS A CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE TO EDUCATION, THAT DE-INSTITUJIONALIZES KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING, AND ONE WHICH PROVIDES AND GUARANTEES ALL RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS WHO WANT TO LEARN WITH ACCESS TO LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES AT ANY TIME IN THEIR LIFE. COMPETENCE AND CHARACTER, NOT DEGREES OR DPLOMAS SHOULD BE THE MEASURE OF MAN.
While held as a POW in Vietnam, a U.S. Army soldier reported that the commissioned officers, held separate from the enlisted men, would often steal from them, one of his greatest disappointments he experienced during his time there. No one is exempt from such uncharateristic behavior depending on the circumstances. And I might add, stealing is often in the eye of the beholder. Was Robin Hood a thief? Is a slave guilty of stealing from his master?
2:30 brilliant. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad stared this process nearly 100 years ago. The whole purpose of the Million Man March was to call out the self destructive behavior of black men. Great passion and truly heartfelt words from this video
Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, many Rastas, and Mulana Karenga all fiercely advocated self-definition and self reliance. I think there is a need to share these insights with young African Americans directly. African Americans don’t IMO need to be chastised in front of white people who seem to want to use his truthful information to undermine African American progress. Talk to Black people.
The stats are available for Illinois if you search for: PER-PUPIL EXPENDITURES IN ILLINOIS’ 10 LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS by Nicholas Munyan-Penney and Charles Barone. It's pretty eye opening. For example, in the City of Chicago, the schools with the highest level of poverty receive 6% more than the lowest poverty schools. In the Chicago suburb where I live we spend 13.6% more per pupil in the highest poverty schools. The poor testing results of students in a high poverty school can't just be blamed on funding. Throwing more money at the problem isn't the answer.
@@michaelweber5702oh so true. I am a teacher in the public school system in NYC and I hear teachers cultivating the victim mentality every time they open their mouths. Those teachers are black and white. They think this is some kind of necessary public service. They teach black students that they can never make it in our white supremacist culture. These teachers need to be extricated from the system, but the teacher education schools are churning them out like widgets.
He wants to move beyond identity politics yet his entire body of work is about identity politics. I think he sees race in every issue. But I love his passion and he really made me think a lot about seeing racial issues thru a much more realistic lens
You've misunderstood the nature of his address and whom he's addressing and why. Most blk ppl live according to the defined and understood characteristics of the blk racial identity. He was raised according to it, followed it, and he's come to see its many flaws and how it fouls up and derails many people's lives.
All biases are the result of pattern recognition over one’s lifetime. If one particular group commits a disproportionate amount of crime that group will be looked at as being criminal.
Racial biases in the U.S. are inherent, in part, because false narratives about race were intentionally created and propagated to justify systems of exploitation and inequality, such as slavery and segregation. These narratives painted Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other minorities as inferior, dangerous, or unworthy of equal rights, shaping societal attitudes and reinforcing discriminatory laws. Over time, these fabricated beliefs became embedded in cultural norms, institutional practices, and economic systems, perpetuating systemic racism. The resulting inequalities are reinforced through media, education, and social policies, ensuring that these biases persist across generations. So to sum it up your comment is bullshit.
Here's what I think you are saying, The speaker might be emphasizing the dual nature of their experiences-being judged or condemned for their circumstances while also striving for righteousness and betterment. This duality can create a sense of tension and conflict within these communities.
Nothing really changes. In 1934 when b marriages were still near 80% they had an ending rate of 70.9 per 100k. IN 2021 when their marriage rates were about 20% their ending rate was 61 per 100K. Its not the schools, its not the parents. They are different, we are different, people that were separated for thousands of years are not the same. Our DNA is different. Our behaviors are different, both negative and positive attributes, different. There is nothing wrong with differences. The problem is, everyone for decades has been programmed to believe that all people are roughly identical. Blank slates. We have been programmed to believe that there are solutions for everything. Programmed to believe that if we put Hispanic children in the best basketball camps when young that they will grow to be taller thus they will make up a larger % of the NBA. Over 50 trillion has been spent since the late 60s in an attempt to create intellectual parity among b n w and its done little to nothing. In spite of this we continue pretending that groups with dramatically different avg intelligence should end up roughly in the same position. Instead of lowering expectations, explaining the reality we choose to be cowards. We choose to pretend that if we only spent a few trillions more on this, a few trillion more on that than test scores will even out, marriage rates will improve etc. In 20 years from now, after trillions more has been spent, after seeing no real change, different people will plead for trillions more and we will all end up in the same place....
There are no public schools in America which receive more public funding than inner-city black schools. No schools receive more per-student funding than do black inner-city schools. Look in to the funding in Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, LA, and New York. Money isnt the answer. If it were black students would be able to read, write, and do arithmetic at grade level. At the least. Change my mind.
That isn't really accurate. If you compare school districts broadly suburban schools get the most funding. Urban schools are second and rural schools are last. Regardless of racial composition. This is because the baseline budgets of schools are established by property taxes. Some cities, counties and states do earmark special funds and grants for schools deemed to be especially under funded but this isn't consistent from one community to the next or from one year to the next because its based on ballot measures and programs that created and dismantled as administrations come and go.
I'm not trying to change your mind, but I would like clarification- it was my understanding that schools are generally funded locally- that is to say a rich town pays more taxes and thus has a higher school budget and an impoverished town pays lower taxes and thus has less money to spend on schools. I know there are exceptions- I taught at a public 'magnet' school in the South Bronx and that school received some private funding, which made it an exception among NYC schools. But you seem to be saying that the average kid in the South Bronx has more money spent on him at his local public school than a kid who goes to public school in for instance Greenwich CT or Scarsdale NY. Is that correct?
I wish I had the time to think and express along with ability to communicate what is in my heart on this. Probably no one would care, I often wonder why I comment on anything. I have "white" skin, but this idea of white is foreign to me have grown up in what my child's doctor called a mini-UN because of its "diversity." My family is rather mixed though mostly mixed European but there are some Native American to a little Bantu from my Grandma's "Red Bone" family in the old Neutral Zone in LA. I never had an identity the way it is described by a lot of people but maybe Catholic American, I guess. My neighborhood in my youth was poor but not poor at the same time with a variety of different types of people. It was in a northwest suburb. My parents divorced and we moved with my step-Dad into a single-family home in a little nicer area after that. It so sad that in so many ways Glen's story of his family has many similarities, yet so few notice or yet wants to admit. People are less different than is often presented. They are sinners and saints and often a paradox of both in the same person consisting of vices and virtues. MLK's character is just a rehashing of wisdom tradition everyone knows. Where I grew up from my heart it was Martin Luther Kings dream (not that I understood it at the time), everyone was just another person to me. The little boys or girls around me were just other little kids to play with and try to be friends with. Anyway, blessings to all, Maranatha.
If black people behave roughly the same in every culture they reside in, across the globe, why would we assume their behavior in general isn’t a biological predisposition? Races have inherent traits. Both good and bad. Are we supposed to look at black peoples’ exceptional athletic ability, knowing it’s a biological trait, while simultaneously claiming the bad traits are not biological? It’s incoherent.
Were this true, then indeed western Europeans must be considered warring, conquering, savages blinded by hubris into seeing their own enlightenment and ignoring their brutal quest for domination through exploitation. I don’t believe that.
Who said “black people behave roughly the same in every culture they reside in, across the globe”?!!? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone even make that claim, let alone provide data or even anecdotes to support it. I think this discussion went over your head. Wooooosh
Ignorance and stupidity must also be inherent,this racist eugenics argument is old as hell, so barbaric incest oppressive genocidal tendencies must also be inherent, how does that sound, right, ridiculous!!!
Minimum wages are the only thing keeping the poor, including Blacks, from finding work. One job can, and almost always does, lead to a better job as the person builds the human capital that increases his or her value. Education does not need more money, it needs be concentrated on the basic skills from which people can learn. Frederick Douglas taught himself to read by learning the basics from students and then reading. When I learned to read teachers took the time listen to each of us read and make sure the kids who couldn't read received help. We learnt basic arithmetic. We repeated the multiplication table until we knew them. We were taught division. Today they are trying to teach 2nd graders that 13 - (4 -2) = 11 why?
Glenn is among my top five most cherished intellectuals. Goes without saying he is my all-time favorite Black intellectual, but why does that matter? He has Black consciousness, and pride. He puts it in a way I can understand, which improves my quality of life. It really does. Off-topic: why can’t the Juice reflect this way, why can’t they change? Black peoples were inarguably more abused and degraded by others and yet the Juice have an even deeper victim mentality and with it, a vindictive and organized mission of revenge. I guess I’ve mentioned this because Blacks and Juice are often lumped together as similarly targeted groups by academics wishing to portray the Juice as poor and oppressed throughout all time. Blacks and Juice are not similar at all though, except in their capacities to destroy (rather than build). The Juice practiced predatory usury virtually everywhere they were welcomed, and their holy book (Talmud) is just as hateful, racist and genocidal as anything you’ve ever heard from 1930s Germany. The Blacks didn’t do anything to deserve slavery or hate. But the historical response to the behavior of the Juice was measured and purposeful. It was earned. Just sayin.
He doesn't like black people. He's too ashamed of them to work inside the culture & community. He's looking for validation from whites. And he gets that.
But kind of crazy that you support the very man that could care less about you and your community. I doesn’t make to much sense to me to support a party that will never support my community in any way.
I'm sorry that the term "black" was appropriated. No other group identifies itself with a color. Others may call some "white" or "red" or "yellow", but not the group itself. Even "African American" is misplaced if one cannot trace your pure lineage back to Africa. I find the "black" vote, the "black" family, the "black" man tiring, outdated and useless. It's unfortunate that Glenn sees himself that way. I don't.
Dude is still talking while also claiming that he being silenced..last time I checked Joe Biden and the “oppressive” democrats are in charge and he still has tenure at a “elite” school.. complaining about victim mentality but trying to claim victim status that he’s being silenced..sorry but no one is required to take you super serious and that doesn’t equal silencing
@@j.clements2093 it's a joke alright. Glenn is of the least effective voices in the black community. He is literally a nobody there. He may as well be howling at the moon. Even Candace Owens has a bigger effect on the community.
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"It's time to redefine blackness." - the greatest straight line ever written.
Glenn is an American/World treasure, He always motivates me to do better when I hear him! How many people can you say that about!
Hear hear!!
Stop it; don't fall for the bamboozle. Who, pray tell, is trying to silence the Great Glenn? Stop it. Nobody is trying to silence Glenn and if there were, he would have named names, or at least one name, no? Glenn, obviously, believes that nobody can save us but us, and all his rhetoric is premised from that fundamental belief. But most folks have help. As Obama is infamous for having said, "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that." You got help, and Blacks need help too - their internal problems notwithstanding. QED
Amen
Basta, no caigas en la trampa. ¿Quién, por favor, está tratando de silenciar al Gran Glenn? Basta ya. Nadie está intentando silenciar a Glenn y si lo hubiera, habría dado nombres, o al menos un nombre, ¿no? Glenn, obviamente, cree que nadie puede salvarnos salvo nosotros, y toda su retórica se basa en esa creencia fundamental. Pero la mayoría de la gente tiene ayuda. Como Obama es famoso por haber dicho: «Alguien ayudó a crear este increíble sistema estadounidense que tenemos y que os ha permitido prosperar. Alguien invirtió en carreteras y puentes. Si tienes un negocio, no lo construiste tú». Tú recibiste ayuda, y los negros también la necesitan, a pesar de sus problemas internos. Finalmente, cuando escribí este comentario en inglés, fue borrado, así que aunque Glenn no está siendo silenciado, yo sí. Sospecho que este en español también será borrado. Veamos. QED
Actually, he's not. I don't mean that negatively, it's just that all he does from what his supporters on my feed show is provide a counter argument to anti-racism.
My proof; everyone knows that white cops aren't driving around looking for Black men to shoot and kill, that's hyperbole. However there have been Black people killed by Cops and civilians where the killing just should not have happened. Also, it's been proven in study that there are many areas of America where Black people make up a small segment of the population but account for most of the traffic stops and violations.
I'm younger than Glenn, but I definitely get where he's coming from. And, as someone a generation behind him, I was more than a little confused by seeing the behaviors he described lived out by some of my own family members. Especially when I heard the sermons on Sunday. But I digress.
It's been more than a little bit of a journey going from devouring Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines novels, to Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter, watching the Black Guys podcast and now the Glenn Show.
I am very, very glad Glenn is out there. Black America needs to hear what he's saying, but so does the rest of the world who looks more than a little bit at Black America. May we be blessed with many more years of his mind and voice. ☦☦☦
I know his message is more towards black people and their particular circumstances but his message is also universal. I always learn something from him.
As a Black British Londoner, this message resonates with me. Our working class communities are mixed races, with white, black and brown struggling, succeeding and failing together. Americas obsession with ethnicity saddens me
Definitely Universal! The good and the bad, righteousness alongside sinfulness, joy amid pain, success and failure, all common to mankind.
@@charlesgordon5156 That's because London never had Jim Crow.
I agree completely, and I'd add that we'd all benefit from aspiring to Dr. Lowry's command of rhetoric as well.
@@charlesgordon5156 yeah but you guys are obsessed with class and that's just as disturbing. every country has its own unique cultural baggage/dysfunction..
This is great, thank you Glenn. This is the masculinity our young man are dying to see.
I was enlightened in many ways by the book Glenn describes here. I can't imagine anyone not benefiting by reading it. Godspeed Glenn Loury
Glenn although i don't always agree with you, I admire you as a national treasure. I am a middle lefty that appreciate your voice!
Leftist have destroyed America and Black America
Brilliant and heartfelt talk, Glenn. Thanks
God, I love this man’s spirited brain.
Thank you for the eloquent story of your childhood family of a day gone by. You are a force for good Prof. Loury.
And he just seems like such a damn likable human being too
This is a wonderful Brother.
I love you, Glenn. Look after your health. Lose some weight. I will be very pissed off if you have a heart attack. I need you, we need you.
Dr Loury, , this extended soliloquy was your best so far! I gotta go buy the book. Ive been watching your videos for years, especially your conversations with Dr Mcworter. Yall help me understand so much, Please keep doing it!!
Glenn is a man of Truth and Uncommon Intellect. I am grateful to have found him and his channel. His story is amazing in many ways, but also common in many. I, too, lived many of the same realities in the inner city growing up. These realities have never been better described than within this video. So familiar are those realities to those of us having lived tough upbringings. Glenn was blessed with great intellect and drive which allowed him an illustrious career. We need to strive to do better, all people from the “Hood.” Hard work pays off!
Your whole comment is fiction.
Thoughtful and energizing start of an important issue.
From Australia this guy is awesome a truth teller
I watch Prof. Loury occasionally when the subject matches my interest. His honesty and based opinions always impresses me. As an immigrant and visible minority, I understand how difficult it is for him to speak on this a topic like this. That is why I am all the more respect him as a person and as an intellectual.
I love Glenn's passion and conviction. He knows that so many will try to tear down this argument but it's rock solid and he knows it.
Glenn, you are a beautiful man.
A GOOD MAN.
Glenn , I have enjoyed your podcasts for years . On education it is not just money , more importantly it is are students taught the basics or are not taught the basics ...
As a young woman, I wish we had a loving, yet stern and wise intellectual like Dr. Loury to guide us against the 4B craziness. But instead, we have radical feminists egging us to sterilize ourselves. I feel so embarrassed by everyone losing their minds.😖 😭🤦🏼♀
"As a white woman?"🤔 Why would you give a racial qualifier?
Serious question.
@@-----GOD----- I mentioned I'm a young white female to highlight that although Dr. Loury was addressing the unique challenges of his (black) community, there are parallels in how toxic activism affects women too. I feel we need more positive role models who encourage us to empower ourselves as individuals (like Glenn does), rather than treat us as pawns in activism and politics. But I understand it came off like being white mattered to the issue I mentioned, while in fact, it doesn't. Hope that helps. 🙂
Brave and genuine ❤ such a perfect messenger!
Thank you for this. I've gained so much more respect for you while listening to this.
We are close to the same age. My parents moved to Baltimore from Newport News, Va when I was 15 urs old. My father was a penicostal preacher who married and raised 9 children. He wad poor. But, he was one of the best men that I've ever known. He taught me standards and values. Becsuse of him Im who I am today.
l am now an educator in the DC pubic school system. Like you, I can not or will forget my people.
Glenn Lowry you are a smart man , a caring man, your exactly right and a true teller, thks
Glenn, thank you for your voice and passion. The West sits on the precipice of devouring itself. *YOU* are among the people who are trying to sound the alarm and save it. And, i thank you. We must be diligent if we are to turn it around. We fell asleep for decades while insidious forces were working to deconstruct humanity. I am 63 years old. I can look back through my lifetime and see our demise.
Dr. Loury, I sincerely appreciated this video. In listening to your personal story, there is much we have in common. Those of us who were blessed, fortunate, committed and effective in doing something positive with our lives can simultaneously see the injustices and inequities Black people experience, and the bad choices and harmful resignations that perpetuate the depressed conditions too many of our people generationally experience. One need not be an intellectual to both recognize and wrestle (intellectually and emotionally) with that dichotomy. I certainly do. That said, these are the discussions we should have within our community. Owning up to the importance of stressing individual accountability, self-reliance and commitment to personal development is as important as protesting bad policing, institutional bias and disparities in the housing and schools in Black communities. However, let's move away from liberal or conservative labels with these matters. Instead, let's focus on honest and constructive discussion on these issues and options for solutions that will benefit both our people and our country.
The changes that Glen has seen in his life are breathtaking and could not have been predicted by the most optimistic.
You can bet there was plenty of pearl clutching in that audience.
Glenn is the one black guy who can hear the sound of thunder.
Bravo 👏
Glenn is such a good orator
Right on, I need your book asap.
They won’t stop, Glenn.
Thank you, Glenn.
They have wasted resources in public schools with no improvement for decades
As long as we do nothing, we can give great speeches.
Waiting for the book. Thank you for your brilliant and persuasive contribution.
Can’t wait to read the memoir!
It's too much. You're describing a completely alien world, an unending hellscape of suffering and madness. Who could survive such an environment?
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Black fashion of those times sounds so classy, exotic and beautiful.😍I want to give it a try haha. 😘💅
Check out Dandy Wellington!
Amen!!
I don't want government schools "adequately funded" -- they are overfunded and all the pathology today is either directly or indirectly their fruit. I want government indoctrination centers defunded. We need parents and the free market in charge of education .
END COMPULSORY SCHOOLING. ANY NEW POLITICAL PROGRAM OF THIS NEW CENTURY SHOULD BE EVALUATED BY ITS ABILITY TO STATE THE NEED FOR A NEW EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM; ONE WHICH MAINTAINS A CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE TO EDUCATION, THAT DE-INSTITUJIONALIZES KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING, AND ONE WHICH PROVIDES AND GUARANTEES ALL RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS WHO WANT TO LEARN WITH ACCESS TO LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES AT ANY TIME IN THEIR LIFE. COMPETENCE AND CHARACTER, NOT DEGREES OR DPLOMAS SHOULD BE THE MEASURE OF MAN.
His aunts who were thieves, Glenn calls, "Salt of the earth"?!?!?!? PASS
You think there are salt of the earth people who are not sinners? Wrong.
While held as a POW in Vietnam, a U.S. Army soldier reported that the commissioned officers, held separate from the enlisted men, would often steal from them, one of his greatest disappointments he experienced during his time there. No one is exempt from such uncharateristic behavior depending on the circumstances. And I might add, stealing is often in the eye of the beholder. Was Robin Hood a thief? Is a slave guilty of stealing from his master?
2:30 brilliant. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad stared this process nearly 100 years ago. The whole purpose of the Million Man March was to call out the self destructive behavior of black men. Great passion and truly heartfelt words from this video
Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, many Rastas, and Mulana Karenga all fiercely advocated self-definition and self reliance. I think there is a need to share these insights with young African Americans directly.
African Americans don’t IMO need to be chastised in front of white people who seem to want to use his truthful information to undermine African American progress.
Talk to Black people.
God Bless You, Glenn. Can't wait to read your book.
Thank you for your wisdom and your courage!
New to this guy but I’m listening
He's quality all the way, welcome
The stats are available for Illinois if you search for: PER-PUPIL EXPENDITURES IN ILLINOIS’ 10 LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS by Nicholas Munyan-Penney and Charles Barone.
It's pretty eye opening.
For example, in the City of Chicago, the schools with the highest level of poverty receive 6% more than the lowest poverty schools.
In the Chicago suburb where I live we spend 13.6% more per pupil in the highest poverty schools.
The poor testing results of students in a high poverty school can't just be blamed on funding. Throwing more money at the problem isn't the answer.
Yes , that is right . Isn't it often whether you are actually taught the basics not victim hood ...
@@michaelweber5702oh so true. I am a teacher in the public school system in NYC and I hear teachers cultivating the victim mentality every time they open their mouths. Those teachers are black and white. They think this is some kind of necessary public service. They teach black students that they can never make it in our white supremacist culture. These teachers need to be extricated from the system, but the teacher education schools are churning them out like widgets.
He wants to move beyond identity politics yet his entire body of work is about identity politics. I think he sees race in every issue. But I love his passion and he really made me think a lot about seeing racial issues thru a much more realistic lens
You've misunderstood the nature of his address and whom he's addressing and why. Most blk ppl live according to the defined and understood characteristics of the blk racial identity. He was raised according to it, followed it, and he's come to see its many flaws and how it fouls up and derails many people's lives.
Glenn getting fired up is one of my favorite things in the world. I feel every point he makes in my bones, man.
All biases are the result of pattern recognition over one’s lifetime. If one particular group commits a disproportionate amount of crime that group will be looked at as being criminal.
Racial biases in the U.S. are inherent, in part, because false narratives about race were intentionally created and propagated to justify systems of exploitation and inequality, such as slavery and segregation. These narratives painted Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other minorities as inferior, dangerous, or unworthy of equal rights, shaping societal attitudes and reinforcing discriminatory laws. Over time, these fabricated beliefs became embedded in cultural norms, institutional practices, and economic systems, perpetuating systemic racism. The resulting inequalities are reinforced through media, education, and social policies, ensuring that these biases persist across generations. So to sum it up your comment is bullshit.
Defining "blackness" at all is the mistake.
It must needs to be defined. Only way to address issues
@redlionesv It's a ridiculous idea.
There is no "blackness". There are black people, who vary in every conceivable way.
Here's what I think you are saying,
The speaker might be emphasizing the dual nature of their experiences-being judged or condemned for their circumstances while also striving for righteousness and betterment. This duality can create a sense of tension and conflict within these communities.
It would be nice if he was making this speech to an audience of Black people…
You don't get enough time or space on TikTok, which is where the black audience that needs to hear this is getting all their information.
Nothing really changes. In 1934 when b marriages were still near 80% they had an ending rate of 70.9 per 100k. IN 2021 when their marriage rates were about 20% their ending rate was 61 per 100K. Its not the schools, its not the parents. They are different, we are different, people that were separated for thousands of years are not the same. Our DNA is different. Our behaviors are different, both negative and positive attributes, different. There is nothing wrong with differences. The problem is, everyone for decades has been programmed to believe that all people are roughly identical. Blank slates.
We have been programmed to believe that there are solutions for everything. Programmed to believe that if we put Hispanic children in the best basketball camps when young that they will grow to be taller thus they will make up a larger % of the NBA. Over 50 trillion has been spent since the late 60s in an attempt to create intellectual parity among b n w and its done little to nothing. In spite of this we continue pretending that groups with dramatically different avg intelligence should end up roughly in the same position. Instead of lowering expectations, explaining the reality we choose to be cowards. We choose to pretend that if we only spent a few trillions more on this, a few trillion more on that than test scores will even out, marriage rates will improve etc.
In 20 years from now, after trillions more has been spent, after seeing no real change, different people will plead for trillions more and we will all end up in the same place....
rather nihilistic but carries some truth ..some
Where and when exactly was this?
His book and recent comments left me thinking he was no longer religious.
What happened? The rap culture.
Amongst several other things.
It really was a downhill turning point.
A severe one.
I watched it happen.
Would love to know the event details/when/where? Thanks!
There are no public schools in America which receive more public funding than inner-city black schools. No schools receive more per-student funding than do black inner-city schools. Look in to the funding in Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, LA, and New York.
Money isnt the answer. If it were black students would be able to read, write, and do arithmetic at grade level. At the least.
Change my mind.
That isn't really accurate. If you compare school districts broadly suburban schools get the most funding. Urban schools are second and rural schools are last. Regardless of racial composition. This is because the baseline budgets of schools are established by property taxes. Some cities, counties and states do earmark special funds and grants for schools deemed to be especially under funded but this isn't consistent from one community to the next or from one year to the next because its based on ballot measures and programs that created and dismantled as administrations come and go.
@beksinski so you are saying I'm right? Just not entirely?
I agree. What do you think the answer is?
I used to work at an all black school and you are absolutely correct.
I'm not trying to change your mind, but I would like clarification- it was my understanding that schools are generally funded locally- that is to say a rich town pays more taxes and thus has a higher school budget and an impoverished town pays lower taxes and thus has less money to spend on schools. I know there are exceptions- I taught at a public 'magnet' school in the South Bronx and that school received some private funding, which made it an exception among NYC schools. But you seem to be saying that the average kid in the South Bronx has more money spent on him at his local public school than a kid who goes to public school in for instance Greenwich CT or Scarsdale NY. Is that correct?
Wow the crowd was not digging this.
I wish I had the time to think and express along with ability to communicate what is in my heart on this. Probably no one would care, I often wonder why I comment on anything. I have "white" skin, but this idea of white is foreign to me have grown up in what my child's doctor called a mini-UN because of its "diversity." My family is rather mixed though mostly mixed European but there are some Native American to a little Bantu from my Grandma's "Red Bone" family in the old Neutral Zone in LA. I never had an identity the way it is described by a lot of people but maybe Catholic American, I guess. My neighborhood in my youth was poor but not poor at the same time with a variety of different types of people. It was in a northwest suburb. My parents divorced and we moved with my step-Dad into a single-family home in a little nicer area after that. It so sad that in so many ways Glen's story of his family has many similarities, yet so few notice or yet wants to admit. People are less different than is often presented. They are sinners and saints and often a paradox of both in the same person consisting of vices and virtues. MLK's character is just a rehashing of wisdom tradition everyone knows. Where I grew up from my heart it was Martin Luther Kings dream (not that I understood it at the time), everyone was just another person to me. The little boys or girls around me were just other little kids to play with and try to be friends with. Anyway, blessings to all, Maranatha.
Very well spoken sir! And the democratic party doesn't really help..
If you are speaking for your people why isn't it every American?
SCHOOLS ARE NOT UNDERFUNDED....come at me
The problem is you describe yourself first by your tribe.
If black people behave roughly the same in every culture they reside in, across the globe, why would we assume their behavior in general isn’t a biological predisposition?
Races have inherent traits. Both good and bad. Are we supposed to look at black peoples’ exceptional athletic ability, knowing it’s a biological trait, while simultaneously claiming the bad traits are not biological? It’s incoherent.
Were this true, then indeed western Europeans must be considered warring, conquering, savages blinded by hubris into seeing their own enlightenment and ignoring their brutal quest for domination through exploitation. I don’t believe that.
Who said “black people behave roughly the same in every culture they reside in, across the globe”?!!? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone even make that claim, let alone provide data or even anecdotes to support it. I think this discussion went over your head. Wooooosh
@@liquidantonym6322it’s uniquely American.
@@robertmaitino5674the history of treatment of black Americans by the state and localities is also unique…
Ignorance and stupidity must also be inherent,this racist eugenics argument is old as hell, so barbaric incest oppressive genocidal tendencies must also be inherent, how does that sound, right, ridiculous!!!
Wow. What a story. The speech reads like a dramatic jazz riff. Thank You.
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Minimum wages are the only thing keeping the poor, including Blacks, from finding work. One job can, and almost always does, lead to a better job as the person builds the human capital that increases his or her value. Education does not need more money, it needs be concentrated on the basic skills from which people can learn. Frederick Douglas taught himself to read by learning the basics from students and then reading. When I learned to read teachers took the time listen to each of us read and make sure the kids who couldn't read received help. We learnt basic arithmetic. We repeated the multiplication table until we knew them. We were taught division. Today they are trying to teach 2nd graders that 13 - (4 -2) = 11 why?
To prepare them for college math that most will never take...and never need take.
I better go into life time debt w/the institutional descendants of theives for stolen land for some social acceptance😶
Glenn, will you adopt me, please?
Glenn is among my top five most cherished intellectuals. Goes without saying he is my all-time favorite Black intellectual, but why does that matter? He has Black consciousness, and pride. He puts it in a way I can understand, which improves my quality of life. It really does.
Off-topic: why can’t the Juice reflect this way, why can’t they change? Black peoples were inarguably more abused and degraded by others and yet the Juice have an even deeper victim mentality and with it, a vindictive and organized mission of revenge. I guess I’ve mentioned this because Blacks and Juice are often lumped together as similarly targeted groups by academics wishing to portray the Juice as poor and oppressed throughout all time. Blacks and Juice are not similar at all though, except in their capacities to destroy (rather than build). The Juice practiced predatory usury virtually everywhere they were welcomed, and their holy book (Talmud) is just as hateful, racist and genocidal as anything you’ve ever heard from 1930s Germany. The Blacks didn’t do anything to deserve slavery or hate. But the historical response to the behavior of the Juice was measured and purposeful. It was earned.
Just sayin.
Very well put! I agree with your assessment of the juice.
I love you, ojectievelu❤
I wish he would teach at an HBCU.
He doesn't like black people. He's too ashamed of them to work inside the culture & community. He's looking for validation from whites. And he gets that.
The eloqence... the erudition.
But kind of crazy that you support the very man that could care less about you and your community. I doesn’t make to much sense to me to support a party that will never support my community in any way.
Ah. You must be a Jill Stein or a Dr. West supporter. Those are about the only two options who would’ve helped anyone apart from foreign nations.
I’m glad I saw this. I now get the outrage. Can’t say I liked him at first. I’ll take another look.
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I'm sorry that the term "black" was appropriated. No other group identifies itself with a color. Others may call some "white" or "red" or "yellow", but not the group itself. Even "African American" is misplaced if one cannot trace your pure lineage back to Africa.
I find the "black" vote, the "black" family, the "black" man tiring, outdated and useless. It's unfortunate that Glenn sees himself that way. I don't.
@@brozbro really? Not native Americans, Hispanic, pacific islanders, Indians, etc. None are aware that they’re a minority and not white?
I do see your point. African Americans very often look different from African natives.
@@NightsideOfParadise see Charlize Theron....an African American.
Trust. One thing is for sure. White people know who is not white! They will let you know every chance they get.
Someone doesn’t understand the general concept of ethnicity and how’s that’s different that race I see lol
"You will not silence me".
Black folk: Glenn who? Never heard of him! Hahahahaha
Joke’s on us then. 🙁
I don't think Glen was referring only to the black people that would rather not hear his views
Dude is still talking while also claiming that he being silenced..last time I checked Joe Biden and the “oppressive” democrats are in charge and he still has tenure at a “elite” school.. complaining about victim mentality but trying to claim victim status that he’s being silenced..sorry but no one is required to take you super serious and that doesn’t equal silencing
@@j.clements2093 it's a joke alright. Glenn is of the least effective voices in the black community. He is literally a nobody there. He may as well be howling at the moon. Even Candace Owens has a bigger effect on the community.
Typical BS from a paid sycophant.