John McWhorter – Who You Calling a Sellout?

<p>Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349" target="_blank">https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=88s" target="_blank">1:28</a> John corrects some Wikipedia-driven misconceptions about his work </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=252s" target="_blank">4:12</a> ChatGPT pays homage to Glenn and John </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=401s" target="_blank">6:41</a> John: JD Vance actually is what I’m merely accused of being </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=1079s" target="_blank">17:59</a> Ground News ad <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=1208s" target="_blank">20:08</a> Are there any true sellouts among black conservatives? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=1712s" target="_blank">28:32</a> And what is a sellout, anyway? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=2161s" target="_blank">36:01</a> What goes on between Clarence and Ginni Thomas? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=2419s" target="_blank">40:19</a> An addition to the book club reading list </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=2528s" target="_blank">42:08</a> ACTA ad </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=2634s" target="_blank">43:54</a> Remembering Linda Datcher Loury </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=2940s" target="_blank">49:00</a> Should having children be the norm? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=3394s" target="_blank">56:34</a> Glenn sightings in the wild </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRoUdvqZB9M&#38;t=3452s" target="_blank">57:32</a> Working without a net</p><p>Recorded September 23, 2024</p><p><strong>Links and Readings</strong></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Loury" target="_blank">Glenn’s Wikipedia page</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter" target="_blank">John’s Wikipedia page</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/opinion/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy.html" target="_blank">John’s NYT column, “Why JD Vance Dropped into My Inbox”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300555" target="_blank">JD Vance’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300555" target="_blank"><em>Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Race-Self-Sabotage-Black-America/dp/0060935936" target="_blank">John’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Race-Self-Sabotage-Black-America/dp/0060935936" target="_blank"><em>Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sellout-Politics-Betrayal-Randall-Kennedy/dp/0307388425" target="_blank">Randall Kennedy’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sellout-Politics-Betrayal-Randall-Kennedy/dp/0307388425" target="_blank"><em>Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-Lewis-Life-David-Greenberg/dp/1982142995" target="_blank">David Greenberg’s forthcoming book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-Lewis-Life-David-Greenberg/dp/1982142995" target="_blank"><em>John Lewis: A Life</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Places-Tale-Two-Campuses/dp/0140170987" target="_blank">David Lodge’s novel, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Places-Tale-Two-Campuses/dp/0140170987" target="_blank"><em>Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racecraft-Soul-Inequality-American-Life/dp/183976564X" target="_blank">Barbara and Karen Fields’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racecraft-Soul-Inequality-American-Life/dp/183976564X" target="_blank"><em>Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/James-Novel-Percival-Everett/dp/0385550367" target="_blank">Percival Everett’s novel, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/James-Novel-Percival-Everett/dp/0385550367" target="_blank"><em>James</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Babel-Necessity-Violence-Translators-Revolution/dp/0063021439" target="_blank">RF Kuang’s novel, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Babel-Necessity-Violence-Translators-Revolution/dp/0063021439" target="_blank"><em>Babel, or the Necessity of Violence</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/george-floyd-was-also-father/618663/" target="_blank">Clint Smith’s </a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/george-floyd-was-also-father/618663/" target="_blank"><em>Atlantic</em></a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/george-floyd-was-also-father/618663/" target="_blank"> piece, “George Floyd Was Also a Father”</a></p> <br /><br />This is a public episode. 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