Tag: John McWhorter
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Rebecca Blank is the chancellor of cancel culture
She winnows but does not sift. We bear no ill will toward Northwestern University, the only private institution among the 14 schools of higher education that comprise the Big Ten athletic conference. (We were told there would be no math.) Don’t blame us for Rebecca Blank, Mildcats. Blank is moving on from chancellor of the…
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Madison’s anti-racism mural teaches hate
Critical race theory on a mural! We hate this mural. Well, maybe “hate” is too strong a word. … No, it isn’t. We hate, hate, hate this mural because it teaches grievance, racial enmity, and victimhood. Its message: Blame Whitey for Your Failure. The damn thing blights the outside wall of a pharmacy at the…
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Wake up call for the woke racists
Buy John McWhorter’s book! John McWhorter is but one of many black conservatives who do not get one-tenth the attention of a self-aggrandizer (and tax cheat) like Al Sharpton. But The New York Times is beginning to pay attention. McWhorter is up with a piece headlined “What’s missing from the conversation about systemic racism.” An excerpt…
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Wisconsin’s university chancellors are craven cowards
The progressive cancel culture is canceling our culture The NAACP, faith leaders, actors, and alumni wrote this week to the chancellors of the University of Wisconsin campuses at Madison and Oshkosh and to Gov. Tony Evers to restore the good name of a real-life civil right activist. Or, as academic John McWhorter puts it “repeal…