As another poster said, how would that same speech play at Stanford in 2023? This may be the biggest problem in what Glenn hopes to achieve - the people who most need to hear him out and consider his ideas are the least willing to do so for various reasons.
I'm starting to think that "America's perpetual dilemmas about race" exist because perpetuating them is advantageous to so many. The activist class has its pulpit from which to preach. The political class has its mascots and victims to use as campaign fodder. People in that class have a ready-made excuse for every time things don't go their way. This is not exclusive to race; it covers any and every cause one can imagine. There is goal or end point in mind and certainly no coherent path for achieving it. Reaching that end point would be the end of the gravy train for the hustlers and politicos who traffic in grievance.
The people who speak the loudest about caring for minorities have failed them. Look at urban schools. What parent would willingly send a child there? Look at urban crime rates and how the power structure turns a blind eye, largely harming the law-abiding majority within those communities. Look at sprawling homeless and addicted populations, encroaching ever more on the places where people live and work. That is failure at an institutional level and the lower one's income, the more difficult it is to escape that failure. Disproportionately, that means a tougher struggle for blacks, and it's made even tougher by the people whom they - and no small number of patronizing whites - put into office.
Still, though, I'd like to see how this same speech would fare today on the same campus where law students lost their collective (collectivist?) minds over a judge who had been invited to speak. I imagine Glenn would be called a white supremacist much like Larry Elder or a particular Supreme Court Justice. The irony is that a group of mostly white and mostly privileged kids attending an expensive university would be trying to shout down a black man who is old enough to have lived during the 'colored only' era. Irony is dead and self-awareness is on life support. How one gets through to people like that is a mystery. If that can be solved, then the things Glenn talks about might have a chance.
As another poster said, how would that same speech play at Stanford in 2023? This may be the biggest problem in what Glenn hopes to achieve - the people who most need to hear him out and consider his ideas are the least willing to do so for various reasons.
I'm starting to think that "America's perpetual dilemmas about race" exist because perpetuating them is advantageous to so many. The activist class has its pulpit from which to preach. The political class has its mascots and victims to use as campaign fodder. People in that class have a ready-made excuse for every time things don't go their way. This is not exclusive to race; it covers any and every cause one can imagine. There is goal or end point in mind and certainly no coherent path for achieving it. Reaching that end point would be the end of the gravy train for the hustlers and politicos who traffic in grievance.
The people who speak the loudest about caring for minorities have failed them. Look at urban schools. What parent would willingly send a child there? Look at urban crime rates and how the power structure turns a blind eye, largely harming the law-abiding majority within those communities. Look at sprawling homeless and addicted populations, encroaching ever more on the places where people live and work. That is failure at an institutional level and the lower one's income, the more difficult it is to escape that failure. Disproportionately, that means a tougher struggle for blacks, and it's made even tougher by the people whom they - and no small number of patronizing whites - put into office.
Still, though, I'd like to see how this same speech would fare today on the same campus where law students lost their collective (collectivist?) minds over a judge who had been invited to speak. I imagine Glenn would be called a white supremacist much like Larry Elder or a particular Supreme Court Justice. The irony is that a group of mostly white and mostly privileged kids attending an expensive university would be trying to shout down a black man who is old enough to have lived during the 'colored only' era. Irony is dead and self-awareness is on life support. How one gets through to people like that is a mystery. If that can be solved, then the things Glenn talks about might have a chance.
You’ve put together the exact points from my original post here far more eloquently than I did. Well said, Sir! 👏🏼