John McWhorter on the 'Religion' of Antiracism

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 27, 2021

John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast, opinion writer at The New York Times, and the author of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America (Portfolio, 2021), discusses a new book in which he takes aim at antiracism and "wokeness."

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