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Corey Brooks – Changing Black Lives on the South Side of Chicago
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PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 Why Corey weighed in on the Claudine Gay controversy
3:50 Corey: DEI doesn’t offer anything to those on the fringes of society
10:16 Black opposition to Chicago’s “sanctuary city” status
18:29 Why Corey supports the police
21:47 Support for New Beginnings from outside Chicago
23:25 The Rooftop Pastor
25:00 Corey’s embrace of conservatism
29:56 Project HOOD
33:04 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closure of test schools
37:02 Class differences within the black community
Recorded January 31, 2024
Links and Readings
Corey’s Tablet piece, “America Works. DEI Doesn’t.”
Inc covers the Elon Musk-Mark Cuban DEI exchange
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