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John McWhorter is a disgrace to the race that we are losing. As an armchair social scientist, his pseudo-analytical texts are self-indulgent, whiny and anti-academic. He just wants quick and dirty attention (not to mention the money that comes along with it). They way he lambasted those kids at Berkeley was criminal. He has not demonstrated a serious commitment to the cause of liberation. He is only an embittered sociolinguist who needs to return to the theatre where his act will best be appreciated. People of integrity, please do not support his self-hating tirades. He ain worf it, a-tall, a-tall. |
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Revision as of 10:36, 4 June 2005
John H. McWhorter (1965- ) is an African American associate professor of linguistics at University of California, Berkeley, and the author of several books on language and race relations. Some consider him a black conservative in the vein of Booker T. Washington.
McWhorter attended Friends Select School (a Quaker high school in Philadelphia) and was accepted to Simon's Rock College after tenth grade. Later, he attended Rutgers University and achieved a B.A. degree in the French. He received a master's degree in American studies from New York University and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University.
He specializes in creole languages and spent a good deal of time studying the Saramaccan language for a planned grammar. Outside his chosen field of linguistics, he has carved a niche for himself as a critical African American social commentator. He has published a number of successful books and made public and television appearances on the subject.
McWhorter does not support reparations for slavery. He is an outspoken critic of contemporary civil rights leaders. He has called Al Sharpton "quite simply an inveterate liar," and stated that "Jesse Jackson has no effect on the lives of most Black people."
McWhorter is currently affiliated with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank and is an Associate Professor of Linquistics at Berkeley.
Select bibliography
- Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (2000)
- The power of Babel: a natural history of language (2002)
- Authentically black: essays for the black silent majority (2003)
- Doing our own thing: the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care (2003)
John McWhorter is a disgrace to the race that we are losing. As an armchair social scientist, his pseudo-analytical texts are self-indulgent, whiny and anti-academic. He just wants quick and dirty attention (not to mention the money that comes along with it). They way he lambasted those kids at Berkeley was criminal. He has not demonstrated a serious commitment to the cause of liberation. He is only an embittered sociolinguist who needs to return to the theatre where his act will best be appreciated. People of integrity, please do not support his self-hating tirades. He ain worf it, a-tall, a-tall.