Hello there, Glen Lowry here, of the Glen Show.

I am recording an audio note that I will occasionally be doing this kind of thing.

And I want to record for posterity and exchange I had in the comments section at the newsletter

at Substack with a reader and a viewer who had some interesting things to say.

The backdrop of this is John McWordor and I in our bi-weekly conversation have taken

up the theme of systemic racism.

The way we pose the question is, imagine someone in my class who is objecting to the way

I'm teaching about racial inequality.

We called her Simone and who insists that we haven't given systemic racism a fair chance.

And we ask ourselves, John and I do, what would we say to Simone?

And so in my last conversation with John posted at the website, we took up that question.

Adam of viewer wrote as follows, as fun as it is to listen to Professor Lowry and Gordard

Riff on the factual failings of the historical empirical arguments put forward by the elect,

the title of John's book.

It seems they're missing some of Simone's strongest potential counter arguments.

When Professor Lowry says no one is coming to save us, a savvy and somewhat heartless

Simone could have replied with, that's not true, at least for a certain value of us.

Look how the pose of black helplessness and prostration, whether warranted by the historical

facts or not, has conquered the commanding heights of American culture and policy.

Look at the set-asides and every elite institution from education to corporate America to politics

that weave one for ourselves, including preference and overrepresentation in securing governmental

posts.

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