I'm sorry, but John McWhorter actually IS somewhat disingenuous. Granted that the book itself seems to contain ideas worth thinking about and talking about, if the summation in the review is accurate. Granted that saying anything at all about race outside certain specific orthodoxies is going to get you merrily trashed by everyone. Nonetheless, when you advocate ideas that you know will be controversial, and then proceed to write articles about those ideas for an outfit like American Enterprise and to appear on Politically Incorrect to advocate positions with which you actively disagree, then you have no scope to complain that people are lumping you with ideologues you dislike; you're doing it to your own damn self. McWhorter sounds like generally intelligent man with much to say, and a startlingly naive viewpoint from which he's saying it.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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