I despise destiny-cannot support anything he is in -he was happy a msn was shot and killed at a Trump rally-he’s not a fierce debater he just screams and name calls! Glenn you are better than getting wrapped up with the likes of him ! Cannot-will not watch
I started watching and listening to Glenn Loury a few decades ago. I wanted to understand why blacks were ostensibly failing in the USA. I was born and raised as a Rhodesian but escaped Zimbabwe to live in Australia. Weirdly, our love and affection for indigenus blacks with whom we were raised, was made out to be racist. I searched to find a black man in America, one I could trust, to inform me. I found the brilliant economist Glenn Loury. I admit I often fumed at what I considerede to be vacillations; obfuscations; excuses and lack of accountability by the most privileged "black' people in the world. I read Glenn Loury's auto-biography 'Late Admissions' and was satiated. We are the same age, we are both educated and pheno-typical of our times. I think the moniker 'African' should be dropped in the USA. I am now an Australian but with a far deeper understanding of 'black' Africa than most black Americans. It is hard not to like Americans, but Americans with a chip on their shoulder, make me sick.
I’m curious, Dylan Roof and other white supremacists idolize apartheid era Rhodesia. Whites in Rhodesia fought a war to maintain white control. Torture was common. Where is the love you say existed?
Robert, your comment is underinformed vis-a-vis the political history of Southern Rhodesia ("S.R") now Zimbabwe. South Africa is south of the Zimbabwe border. S.R. was a very English/British creation, and not that different to the original creation of the U.S.A. It was a much kinder, and more gentle rule, and notably without slavery. You mentioned torture, as if it was a common occurrance, it was certainly not. Torture in S.R. was a crime chargeable as assault or assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, and punisheable by imprisonment regardless of the race of the perpetrator. There was no racial discrimination allowed under the law, and everyone was, theoretically treated equally. I say theoretically because half the country was under the governance of the tribal leaders and whites couod only enter with specific permission. Mixed marriages were not common but not uncommon and every city had suburbs dedicated to such unions. The average white policeman was recruited directy from the United Kingdon and trained in S.R. During the Rhodesian war there were incidences of torture, no different to Abu Ghraib in Iraq. S.R. was established under a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria. S.R. was the jewel in the British Commonwealth, and had it been allowed to flourish, it would have matured into a majority rule independent country and be a shinig example of responsible black government. Robert, I suspect that this truth will be unwelcome to you. I can only say that you don't know what you don't know.
Delightful to listen to you in this interview clip verbally straddle the worlds of being both black American, accomplished, with a desire for a solid legacy, while also identifying as a Westerner and a "human", absorbing all that you can in this short lifetime. Seems to me you have lived the best of all possible worlds! "Oh, what a lucky man he was." 🎶
I despise destiny-cannot support anything he is in -he was happy a msn was shot and killed at a Trump rally-he’s not a fierce debater he just screams and name calls! Glenn you are better than getting wrapped up with the likes of him ! Cannot-will not watch
I started watching and listening to Glenn Loury a few decades ago. I wanted to understand why blacks were ostensibly failing in the USA. I was born and raised as a Rhodesian but escaped Zimbabwe to live in Australia. Weirdly, our love and affection for indigenus blacks with whom we were raised, was made out to be racist. I searched to find a black man in America, one I could trust, to inform me. I found the brilliant economist Glenn Loury. I admit I often fumed at what I considerede to be vacillations; obfuscations; excuses and lack of accountability by the most privileged "black' people in the world. I read Glenn Loury's auto-biography 'Late Admissions' and was satiated. We are the same age, we are both educated and pheno-typical of our times. I think the moniker 'African' should be dropped in the USA. I am now an Australian but with a far deeper understanding of 'black' Africa than most black Americans. It is hard not to like Americans, but Americans with a chip on their shoulder, make me sick.
I’m curious, Dylan Roof and other white supremacists idolize apartheid era Rhodesia. Whites in Rhodesia fought a war to maintain white control. Torture was common. Where is the love you say existed?
Robert, your comment is underinformed vis-a-vis the political history of Southern Rhodesia ("S.R") now Zimbabwe. South Africa is south of the Zimbabwe border. S.R. was a very English/British creation, and not that different to the original creation of the U.S.A. It was a much kinder, and more gentle rule, and notably without slavery. You mentioned torture, as if it was a common occurrance, it was certainly not. Torture in S.R. was a crime chargeable as assault or assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, and punisheable by imprisonment regardless of the race of the perpetrator. There was no racial discrimination allowed under the law, and everyone was, theoretically treated equally. I say theoretically because half the country was under the governance of the tribal leaders and whites couod only enter with specific permission. Mixed marriages were not common but not uncommon and every city had suburbs dedicated to such unions. The average white policeman was recruited directy from the United Kingdon and trained in S.R. During the Rhodesian war there were incidences of torture, no different to Abu Ghraib in Iraq. S.R. was established under a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria. S.R. was the jewel in the British Commonwealth, and had it been allowed to flourish, it would have matured into a majority rule independent country and be a shinig example of responsible black government. Robert, I suspect that this truth will be unwelcome to you. I can only say that you don't know what you don't know.
Delightful to listen to you in this interview clip verbally straddle the worlds of being both black American, accomplished, with a desire for a solid legacy, while also identifying as a Westerner and a "human", absorbing all that you can in this short lifetime. Seems to me you have lived the best of all possible worlds! "Oh, what a lucky man he was." 🎶