Shermichael Singleton – The Shaping of a Young Black Conservative [Bonus Episode]

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0:00 How an elementary school project turned Shermichael on to politics

7:16 Black and Republican at Morehouse in the Obama era

9:05 Why Shermichael is a conservative

12:48 The two sides of black “progress”

17:24 Shermichael: Identity matters, even for conservatives

21:54 How Shermichael got booted from the Trump administration

28:26 Shermichael’s relatively positive assessment of Trump’s presidency

32:29 Was Trump’s post-election behavior good for conservatism?

37:43 The counterintuitive Evangelical support for Trump

40:41 Shermichael’s mentors at Morehouse

50:17 Encountering Thomas Sowell and Glenn

56:19 What Ben Carson is up to these days

58:51 The major intellectual influences on Glenn

Recorded January 4, 2024

Links and Readings

Shermichael’s Ebony piece, “Young, Gifted (Conservative, Republican) and Black” (scroll down)

Shermichael’s the Hill piece, “A Republican asks: Aren’t we morally obliged to stand up to Trump,” that got him fired

Rev. Dr. Robert Michael Franklin on Morehouse

Hit Strategies

American Cornerstone Institute

The Shermichael Singleton Show on Apple Podcasts

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