Normally I would post one of my bi-weekly conversations with John McWhorter today, but John and I had too many scheduling conflicts to find time to talk this week (he’ll return in two weeks).
This was wonderful! I am Glenn’s contemporary and discovered both Albert Murray and Stanley Crouch in the 90s. One unfortunate result of the postmodern/Marxist determination that blacks are permanent victims diminishes the many many achievements of black Americans even during the periods of slavery and Jim Crow. I think it is particularly bad that to maintain the narrative, children today, black, white and anything else are being denied knowledge of these people. Robert Woodson is making an effort to create curriculum that includes these men and women but I don’t believe many schools are taking it up.
One of you raised the issue of white identity and I tried to think what that means to me, a white woman. I was raised a Jew but I don’t think of Jewishness as my primary identity. And what would “rooted” in white identity mean? I think it’s something I don’t care about and feel that exploring it would be a waste of time and maybe should not be encouraged.
I plan to look up the organizations that Thomas mentioned and the app created by his daughter.
This was a really great episode. Many thanks to you both. I’m not sure where to give suggestions but can you get Douglas Murray on? New book, The War on the West, should make for a bracing conversation! Thanks again.
I have a take on stream of consciousness. It’s the literary equivalent of jazz. Authors like Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner are doing the literary equivalent of a jazz inspired improvisation. The correlation is that these two genres got big around the same time. Does anyone know if that comparison has been made before, and by whom? I should read more criticism than I do.
This was wonderful! I am Glenn’s contemporary and discovered both Albert Murray and Stanley Crouch in the 90s. One unfortunate result of the postmodern/Marxist determination that blacks are permanent victims diminishes the many many achievements of black Americans even during the periods of slavery and Jim Crow. I think it is particularly bad that to maintain the narrative, children today, black, white and anything else are being denied knowledge of these people. Robert Woodson is making an effort to create curriculum that includes these men and women but I don’t believe many schools are taking it up.
One of you raised the issue of white identity and I tried to think what that means to me, a white woman. I was raised a Jew but I don’t think of Jewishness as my primary identity. And what would “rooted” in white identity mean? I think it’s something I don’t care about and feel that exploring it would be a waste of time and maybe should not be encouraged.
I plan to look up the organizations that Thomas mentioned and the app created by his daughter.
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This was a really great episode. Many thanks to you both. I’m not sure where to give suggestions but can you get Douglas Murray on? New book, The War on the West, should make for a bracing conversation! Thanks again.
What a brilliant guy. Enjoyed it tremendously.
Tremendous conversation.
Wonderful and thought-provoking conversation. Thanks to you both. I’d enjoy seeing more of Greg on TGS in the future.
I have a take on stream of consciousness. It’s the literary equivalent of jazz. Authors like Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner are doing the literary equivalent of a jazz inspired improvisation. The correlation is that these two genres got big around the same time. Does anyone know if that comparison has been made before, and by whom? I should read more criticism than I do.