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Adam Coleman: Renouncing Black Victimhood

KEY MOMENTS

0:00 – Intro: first episode on Lions of Liberty
3:01 – Family separation behind social dysfunction
6:10 – Lou's brothers and their absent father
11:37 – Bonding with a newborn as a dad
15:15 – Parents who belittle their kids
18:32 – Lou's frustrations with a three-year-old
21:20 – Good parents care about their mistakes
26:19 – Do we want kids to fear us or respect us?
31:05 – Spanking, belts, and Lou's childhood
35:36 – Apologizing to your kids
38:43 – Authority figure, not friend or tyrant
43:23 – The last phone call and learning of his death
47:46 – Fathers as confidence builders
50:32 – Pushing his son to work hard
53:38 – Modeling a work ethic
56:15 – Institutionalized at age eight
59:38 – Life inside a children's mental hospital
1:03:04 – Distress versus real suicidal intent
1:06:07 – Fatherhood, purpose, and therapy
1:09:44 – Judging parents less harshly with age

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Adam Coleman joins Lou for the podcast's first episode on Lions of Liberty to talk about fatherhood, family separation behind social dysfunction, discipline, and renouncing Black victimhood.

We also get into Lou's brothers and their absent father, bonding with a newborn as a dad, parents who belittle their kids, Lou's frustrations with a three-year-old, whether we want kids to fear us or respect us, spanking and Lou's childhood, apologizing to your kids, being an authority figure rather than a friend or a tyrant, modeling a work ethic, being institutionalized at age eight, and judging parents less harshly with age.

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