On the Next TGS Live: John McWhorter on America at 250 + the Destruction of Black Wealth in Boston
Tomorrow, Friday, July 10 at 1:00 P.M. EDT
Last week, the TGS team, Rajiv Sethi, and I devoted the livestream to the nation’s 250th birthday. That’s a big number. Surely it warrants more than two hours of conversation. So I’m going to continue the festivities with a special bonus appearance from John McWhorter, who will be joining me again tomorrow, Friday, July 10 at 1:00 P.M. EDT to talk over the U.S.’s first two-and-a-half centuries. We’ll be talking about America’s past and present, while revisiting some recent topics of conversation, like the Karmelo Anthony sentence and its cultural aftermath.
In the second half of the show, TGS contributor Robert Patton-Spruill will join the stream to talk about real estate, redlining, and black wealth in his native Boston. The political commentator Sabby Sabs recently released a documentary about what she sees as the erasure of Black Boston, a once-thriving site of African American community that has since fallen to gentrification and racist policy. Rob sees things differently, to say the least. Over at his Substack, he’s in the midst of a three-part series that both critiques Sabby’s documentary and tells the story of how his fellow Black Bostonians turned on him and his plans to create wealth and a permanent home for his family while providing affordable housing. Here’s part one, and here’s part two.
So join us tomorrow, Friday, July 10 at 1:00 P.M. EDT for another scintillating installment of TGS Live. Of course, only full subscribers can watch the stream. So if you’re not one already, please consider becoming a full subscriber. Your support is more important now than ever, and I want you to have access to every minute of The Glenn Show. You can also watch it through YouTube’s membership program—so if you want to do it that way, make sure you’re subscribed to my channel. Please consider signing up to ensure you keep getting the best we have to offer.
