The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly, so rushed… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy. — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
