John McWhorter – Whose Election Narrative?
Episode description
0:00 Can a white man tell Harriet Tubman’s story?
9:59 What the fall semester has in store for Glenn and John
17:25 How John makes the sausage at the New York Times
22:55 John: We now memorize rap lyrics instead of poetry
36:18 Is wokeness on the wane?
42:12 What John just doesn’t get about Carol Swain
51:46 A Democrat by any other name
56:50 John makes a wild prediction about Trump
Recorded August 31, 2023
Links and Readings
The Philadelphia Harriet Tubman statue
John’s NYT piece, “Two Languages Walk into a Bar”
John’s NYT piece, “How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry”
Oliver Anthony’s song, “Rich Men North of Richmond”
Jason Aldean’s song, “Try That in a Small Town”
Sabrina Salvati’s YouTube channel
Carol Swain’s recent TGS episode
Carol Swain’s book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress
Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2000 Mules
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