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That 4 point plan sounds great to me. I am not up-to-speed on the pedagogy in point 2, but “reading is fundamental” to any success in life, so whatever works works in that regard.

McWhorter starts off with a multi-paragraph attempt at "befriending the reader" in order to hook in the people who need to hear what he's saying the most: Progressives. Basically tells them exactly what they want to hear (using code words/dog whistles like "white privilege", "structural racism", etc)

Then he lays out why their "fantasy dream" is just a fantasy that's incapable of ever being realized. Followed by (FINALLY!) a four-point prescriptive plan that we can debate the merits of, but are all pretty reasonable and together have a much better chance of working than anything the Jacksons, or Sharptons or Van Joneses of the world have come up with.

So I'm willing to take this all for exactly that, and give him full credit and props for being one of the very few Progressives to actually bring something constructive to the discussion.

As a quick aside, I do find the following bit most interesting: what is the point of pretending that America will somehow learn a plangent lesson about how black people suffer from a legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and therefore merit special treatment that no other groups in America do

This is an explicit admission that one of the Progressive goals is targeted special treatment for Blacks and Blacks alone. Again, something incredibly rare for a Progressive to explicitly state. And what makes this pretty amusing is that the brick wall this notion will eventually plow into at 150mph isn't going to be white racism, but rather Hispanic and perhaps even Asian anger over double-standards.