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John McWhorter – January 2025 Q&A

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Glenn and John take questions from Substack subscribers in this Q&A episode.

1:02 Pat Rimell presents a list of propositions about general poverty in urban communities

17:54 Samuel D. James asks if John has any writing advice

23:35 Tom Wojciaczyk wants to know if what the difference is between an accent and pronunciation

30:50 Michael asks why we’re not more worried about Trump taking us back to the nuclear brinksmanship of the Cold War

39:03 Karen Dawn Norris offers two defenses of reparations

43:34 Young Törless asks, since we use the term “blackness” so often, if we could come up with a definition of it that would satisfy such disparate figures as Al Sharpton, Charles Barkley, Condoleezza Rice, Raven-Symone, and Iman

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