July 2025 Q&A
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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It’s the middle of the summer, it’s hot, and John McWhorter and I are back for another Substack subscriber only Q&A session. In this episode, we take questions about leadership in the black community, critical listening, Percival Everett's novel James, immigration, white women studying black women's history, right-wing identity politics, and the Free Press.
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| 0:21.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.5 | Glenn Lowry here, hosts of the Glenn Show with John McWhorter, my regular conversation partner. |
| 0:28.5 | We're doing the monthly Q&A for the month of July. |
| 0:32.2 | Fred Substack asks, in the poor black communities who are the biggest influences, mothers, grandmothers, gang leaders, |
| 0:40.4 | what are the prevailing cultural messages and ideals? |
| 0:44.6 | Are the influences promoting marriage? |
| 0:46.6 | Are they promoting education? |
| 0:48.8 | That was the question, and you were responding to that, John. |
| 0:53.1 | The grandmother in that community is... |
| 0:57.0 | That question is about overt versus covert and vertical versus horizontal. |
| 1:04.0 | So if you ask that woman, are you against marriage? |
| 1:08.4 | You know, are you against education? |
| 1:10.1 | She would say certainly not, just like any sane person. |
| 1:14.1 | Marriage in those communities is not as emphasized as in what you might, you know, in say the white |
| 1:24.0 | suburbs. Everybody wants to have a longstanding relationship. |
| 1:28.9 | Is it about marriage? |
| 1:30.3 | Do you wait until you're married to have kids? |
| 1:32.8 | The grammar is different. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm not sure how much of a problem I have with that in particular. |
| 1:38.5 | But yes, of course, she is. |
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