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Episode: John McWhorter: How Anti-Racism Is Leaving Black People in the Lurch | People I (Mostly) Admire | 72
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Woke Racism
Buy on Amazon"After this short break, they’ll return to talk about John's book 'Woke Racism.' So our listener, I know, wrote us an email about the high gas prices we’re currently seeing as a result of Russia’s war with Ukraine."
Woke Racism
Buy on Amazon"Your book entitled 'Woke Racism' was published last year, and the subtitle of that book is 'How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.' So how about we start with you defining the group, ideology, or way of thinking that you're reacting to in your book—the thing that you characterize as a new religion?"
Woke Racism
Buy on Amazon"So 'Woke Racism' was not a book meant to just complain about the woke; it's not a book that Tucker Carlson would have written. What I was writing was that black people are being hurt by people who call themselves helping us and that we need to start being able to tell the difference."
Woke Racism
Buy on Amazon"You know what that woman is? That’s who I wrote 'Woke Racism' for; that is exactly what I mean. That is somebody whose heart is very much in the right place, but she’s so afraid of being called the dirtiest name other than pedophile in our current cultural vocabulary that she’s basically hamstrung."
Woke Racism
Buy on Amazon"So towards the end of your book 'Woke Racism,' you suggest a few ideas that you believe would actually make a positive impact on black America, and I want to talk about one in particular which is about teaching kids to read using phonics. I'm not a specialist in education, but I know just enough to know that teaching kids how to read by sounding out the words is more effective, especially with kids from homes that don't have many books in them, than teaching them how to read through a more holistic process where you teach them to recognize the outer contours of the words and surround the kids with content-rich material and give them a little bit of social justice ideology along the lines of teaching empathy in educational schools."