Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America

Uncommon Knowledge

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Politics, History, News:politics, Science, News

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this wide-ranging conversation, Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson debunk The 1619 Project, advocate for the restoration of the Black family and the Black church, describe their own very different upbringings and formative experiences, and discuss the many reasons why they are optimistic about the future of Black Americans, despite the narrative commonly expressed in the media.

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0:00.0	From the title page of Nicole Hannah Jones's essay introducing the 1619 project,
0:06.0	quote,
0:07.0	our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written,
0:13.0	close quote.
0:14.0	The United States of America a racist fraud.
0:18.0	With us today, three African-American intellectuals who do not buy it.
0:24.0	Glen Lowry, Ian Rowe, Robert Woodson.
0:27.0	On Uncommon Knowledge, now.
0:39.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.
0:41.0	I'm Peter Robinson.
0:42.0	We're shooting today from the Old Parkland Conference in Dallas, Texas.
0:46.0	Glen Lowry grew up in a rough neighborhood on the south side of Chicago
0:51.0	and became a tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of 33.
0:56.0	Dr. Lowry now holds a chair in social sciences and economics at Brown.
1:01.0	He also hosts a weekly podcast on the Ricochet Network, The Glen Show.
1:06.0	Glen Lowry holds degrees from Northwestern University and MIT.
1:10.0	Ian Rowe grew up in New York and describes himself as, quote,
1:14.0	a proud product of the New York City public school system,
1:18.0	a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting fellow
1:22.0	at the Woodson Center, we're coming to Woodson.
1:25.0	Ian Rowe is the co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies,
1:29.0	a new group of high schools that opened in the Bronx this very year.
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