Bruce Bartlett sets the record straight in 'Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past', in which he observes to the contrary that "virtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat."Thanks neverdem.
John McWhorter:
What’s Holding Blacks Back?
Source: city-journal.org
Published: Winter 2001 Author: John H. McWhorter
Posted on 03/28/2001 08:25:59 PST by Pokey78
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Against Reparations
Source: The New Republic
Published: 12 July 2001 Author: John McWhorter
Posted on 07/18/2001 08:37:51 PDT by BufordP
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The Color of His Skin:
Would Barack Obama be even considered for President if he were white ?
New York Sun | 09/22/2006 | John McWhorter
Posted on 09/22/2006 12:58:09 PM EDT by SirLinksalot
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/561839/posts?page=17#17
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/561839/posts?page=19#19
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/561839/posts?page=56#56
Ebonics Slang No Substitute for Standard English
Project 21 | 8.23.02 | Michael King
Posted on 08/23/2002 12:22:20 PM EDT by mhking
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“Anyone who wants to find out more about the Ebonics debate should read the book by University of California-Berkeley Linguistics Professor John McWhorter, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of ‘Pure’ Standard English. He closely examines the argument for Ebonics. He also touches on it in his book Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. In the latter book, McWhorter argues that educators who rely on Ebonics as a crutch for students to learn ‘the Queen’s English’ accomplish nothing more than leaving young minds further behind.”
No Qualifiers Needed (Turning down the ironic insult of racial preference)
World Magazine | 2/1/2003 | Prisca Shrewsbury
Posted on 01/30/2003 11:16:47 PM EST by Otta B Sleepin
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“The common belief that all black people, regardless of class, suffer from racism to such an extent that it hampers academic achievement cannot be fully confirmed or denied using simple statistics, but minority author John McWhorter in Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in the Black Community (Perennial, 2000) challenges the view that systemic racism still pervades American society... Mr. McWhorter notes that the black students populating his classes at the University of California-Berkeley were from the middle class and not from the ranks of the poor, whose plight is often invoked in support of affirmative action... As Mr. McWhorter asks, are black people so weak that we cannot achieve in any but ideal circumstances?”
Rich, Black, Flunking (Education Study)
East Bay Express | Susan Goldsmith
Posted on 05/23/2003 10:06:51 AM EDT by rattrap
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“John McWhorter, the author of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, says Ogbu’s book roiled the waters of academia, which he believes is too invested in blaming whites for the problems plaguing black America. ‘There’s a shibboleth in the academic world and that is that the only culture that has any negative traits is the white, middle-class West,’ says McWhorter, a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics who is currently serving as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a New York think tank. McWhorter’s own book, based largely on the author’s experiences as a black man and professor, blames a mentality of victimhood as the primary reason for most of the problems in black communities — including educational underachievement. ‘There’s an idea in black culture that says Plato and hypotenuses are for other people,’ he says. ‘There is an element of black identity today that sees doing well in school as being outside of the core of black identity. It’s a tacit sentiment, but powerful. As a result of that, some of what we see in the reluctance of many parents, administrators, and black academics to quite confront the ‘acting white’ syndrome is that deep down many of them harbor a feeling that it would be unhealthy for black kids to embrace school culture too wholeheartedly.’”
Minister: Blacks’ Loyalty to Democratic Party ‘Unfounded’
NewsMax.com | 6/22/04 | Jon E. Dougherty
Posted on 06/22/2004 5:35:10 PM EDT by kattracks
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“Syndicated columnist Robert Tracinski says liberal orthodoxy espoused by Democrats has failed, and the ‘ideological momentum has shifted to the right.’ He says the gauntlet of conservatism has been picked up by ‘new black intellectuals’ like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and John McWhorter.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1207851/posts?page=35#35
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1207851/posts?page=73#73
Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum
AP | July 09, 2006 | Erin Texeira
Posted on 07/09/2006 2:16:25 PM EDT by TomServo
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“Reparations opponents insist that no living American should have to pay for a practice that ended more than 140 years ago. Plus, programs such as affirmative action and welfare already have compensated for past injustices, said John H. McWhorter, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. ‘The reparations movement is based on a fallacy that cripples the thinking on race - the fallacy that what ails black America is a cash problem,’ said McWhorter, who is black. ‘Giving people money will not solve the problems that we have.’”
Barack Obama: white America’s candidate (guilt ridden white liberals)
spiked-online.com | 22 January 2008 | John Browne
Posted on 01/30/2008 3:14:38 AM EST by neverdem
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“A significant majority of people do look far beyond a candidate’s race or gender when deciding whether to vote for him or her. But Obama’s candidacy reflects a lot more than that. Many white liberals feel that his success in coming this far - and especially if he wins - tells us so much about how the United States feels about itself. David Greenberg called him the ‘great white hope’, and quoted social critic John McWhorter as saying: ‘What gives people a jolt in their gut about the idea of President Obama is the idea that it would be a ringing symbol that racism no longer rules our land.’”
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