John McWhorter: ‘Woke Racism’ Has Betrayed Black America

This is a book saying there are black people who need help, and the people who are calling themselves black people saviors now don't understand this, but they're hurting black people, because what they're caught up in is more about virtue signaling to one another than helping people who actually need help. In his bestselling new book, "Woke Racism, How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America," New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist, John McWhorter argues that the ideas of Robin Diangelo, Ibram X. Kendi, and the 1619 Project undermine blacks by sharpening racial divides and distracting from actual obstacles to real progress. Reason spoke with the 56-year-old McWhorter about what whites get out of cooperating with an ideological agenda that cast them as devils, what blacks gained by performing victim-hood, and what needs to change, so that all Americans can get on with creating a more perfect union.

Channel: ReasonTV

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Length: 65min 40sec (3940 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 19 2021