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John McWhorter

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Since the triumphs of  the civil rights legislations of the early 1960s havoc and dessimation has been wreaked on the Black family with a specific devastation on the Black man.
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John McWhorter was born in 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Known for:

The Glenn Show (2019)
The Glenn Show
Podcast Series
  • Self - Guest
Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley in Best of Enemies (2015)
Best of Enemies
7.6
  • Self - Linguist, Columbia University
  • 2015
The Cartel (2009)
The Cartel
7.4
  • Self - Critic
  • 2009
Grammar Revolution (2014)
Grammar Revolution
6.0
  • Self
  • 2014

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    • Dr. John McWhorter
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    • 1965
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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    Release of his book, "Woke Racism".

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    Columbia University professor of linguistics and American Studies.
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    The ancestors of black Americans didn't speak Swahili, spoken in various countries in East Africa - and Africa is home to a thousand languages. Black Americans speaking Swahili as a heritage language is like someone with red hair and freckles taking up Romanian because it's "European."

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