John McWhorter – SATs, Colorblindness, and New Movies on Race
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
PREORDER Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349
0:00 The word about Ron DeSantis on the streets of Key West
3:32 John’s awards show allergy
6:41 The realness of American Fiction
14:50 Rustin’s narrow historical vision
21:56 The SATs are on their way back
23:23 Afraid to flagrantly split infinitives and end sentences with prepositions? That’s something you should get over.
26:29 What do we mean by “colorblindness” today?
38:30 John: Maybe we have to be a little cold-hearted about colorblindness
41:56 What does rigid colorblindness blind us to?
46:40 What would Stanley Crouch do?
51:08 Debating the presidential debates
Recorded March 16, 2024
Links and Readings
American Fiction trailer
Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure
Rustin trailer
Bayard Rustin’s 1965 Commentary essay, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”
John’s NYT piece, “No, the SAT Isn’t Racist”
John’s NYT piece, “The ‘Rule’ against Ending Sentences with Prepositions Has Always Been Silly”
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Stanley Crouch’s book, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
Stanley Crouch’s book, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994
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| 0:46.2 | Hi there everybody, this is Glenn Lowry. |
| 0:47.8 | You've tuned into the Glenn show. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm with John McWarter, my conversation partner. |
| 0:52.2 | We talk every other week we missed last week because of some |
| 0:54.8 | exigencies but we're back and we will be back on a bi-weekly schedule going forward |
| 0:59.4 | from this point. I teach at Brown University and I'm a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. |
| 1:04.0 | John teaches at Columbia and he writes for the New York Times. |
| 1:07.0 | The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in New York City sponsors the Glen Show |
| 1:12.0 | for which I am very grateful. So welcome to the Glen Show. and |
| 1:15.0 | the Glynne Show for which I am very grateful. So welcome to the Glynne show and welcome back, John. |
| 1:16.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, good to be here. I should tell everybody that my audio is not going to be what it usually is because I do not have a microphone. |
| 1:28.5 | I am coming to you from Key West and I neglected to bring that piece of equipment and so hopefully this will not |
| 1:36.8 | interfere with the procedure. I don't think so I mean maybe the quality that the timber of your voice would not be quite so |
| 1:46.7 | resonant as it ordinarily would be but my timber will make up the difference. So that you win. So where are you John? Are you |
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