John McWhorter – SATs, Colorblindness, and New Movies on Race

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0:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West

3:32 John’s awards show allergy

6:41 The realness of American Fiction

14:50 Rustin’s narrow historical vision

21:56 The SATs are on their way back

23:23 Afraid to flagrantly split infinitives and end sentences with prepositions? That’s something you should get over.

26:29 What do we mean by “colorblindness” today?

38:30 John: Maybe we have to be a little cold-hearted about colorblindness

41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?

46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?

51:08 Debating the presidential debates

Recorded March 16, 2024

Links and Readings

American Fiction trailer

Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure

Rustin trailer

Bayard Rustin’s 1965 Commentary essay, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”

John’s NYT piece, “No, the SAT Isn’t Racist”

John’s NYT piece, “The ‘Rule’ against Ending Sentences with Prepositions Has Always Been Silly”

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Stanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989

Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994

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