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Sunday, July 24, 2022
John McWhorter »Woke Racism« - »How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black Am...
Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly
asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in
America gone so crazy? We’re told to read books and listen to music by
people of color but that wearing certain clothes is »appropriation.« We
hear that being white automatically gives you privilege and that being
black makes you a victim. We want to speak up but fear we’ll be seen as
unwoke, or worse, labeled a racist. According to John McWhorter, the
problem is that a well-meaning but pernicious form of antiracism has
become, not a progressive ideology, but a religion—and one that’s
illogical, unreachable, and unintentionally neoracist. Fortunately for
Black America, and for all of us, it’s not too late to push back against
woke racism. John McWhorter shares scripts and encouragement with those
trying to deprogram friends and family. In conversation with the
philosopher and Director of the Einstein Forum, Susan Neiman, John
McWhorter will present a roadmap to justice that actually will help, not
hurt, Black America.
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