“If you pull back the camera and think about 1965, and think about last week, there’s been massive improvement. The question is why so many people pretend that’s not true.”
That bracing dose of wisdom comes from John McWhorter, Columbia linguistics professor and author of several books on other subjects, going back to Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (2000).
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