McWhorter on Race

I don't generally approve of Front Page Magazine, a radical right-wing inflammatory e-journal started by lefty apostate David Horowitz, although I certainly recommend that people read his fascinating autobiograpy "Radical Son." The book chronicles his shift from radical Berkeley leftist in the late sixties to gung ho right wing supporter. As the left, and academia, refuses to realize that the conservative movement in America is in fact worthy of study and quite rich in its ideological textures, I doubt that such conversion narratives will be studied by sympathetic (yet, I hope, critical) scholarly audiences at any time in the near future. However, I do respect John McWhorter, a young linguist who taught at Berkeley and wrote, in addition to works on social and historical linguistics, a remarkable book called "Losing the Race" which critiqued affirmative action. As McWhorter is black, the book gained perhaps 5% more grudging respect than it would otherwise have gotten from those persons who are confirmed pro-affirmative action ideologues. Although, again, I don't wish to give Front Page Mag undue publicity, here is a most perceptive teaser from their interview with McWhorter with the link below.

Then I address some other issues, showing that we are dealing less with "racism" than some people's inner need to pretend that "racism" remains the problem it once was.

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