John McWhorter, Author, "About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America" | City Talk

John McWhorter is an iconoclast who provides provocative viewpoints supported by scholarly savvy," says Doug Muzzio. Dr. McWhorter is a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford; the author of 10 books including the best selling and influential "Losing the Race." He has written scores of Op-Ed's and think pieces on race and culture and is a fixture on television news and radio commentary. His newest book is "All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America. (Taped: 6/24/2008)
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[@minim6981]

I loooooove this brother!

[@BloggerMusicMan]

A lot of people don't like the host here. I find him kind of endearing actually. He does interrupt, probably a bit too much, but he never has an unkind thing to say and I think it's more out of enthusiasm than ego. He clearly likes John McWhorter and is intimately familiar with his writing.

[@SvenErik_Lindstrom3]

My god he looks young!

[@JoMcMullen56]

The host has nothing to say, yet keeps on saying it.

[@cloudincloudout]

He has a "The Teaching Company" series of lessons called "The history of human language" that is fascinating and worth every minute and penny: 36 lectures that talk about the evolution of language in the most fascinating way. I'm frankly surprised that this has been on the web for over a year, and only one comment is made. Sad.

[@brokecreole]

acting out rather than acting for that is sadly HIP HOP and RAP......interesting

[@paulh2606]

Would anybody like to have McWorter's opinion of the linguistic styles of Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer? How about the linguistic content of Hillary Clinton's lies? And I'd love to hear his critique of Elizabeth Warren as she tells us she is 1/1024th Native American. You will never hear it because he will not go on record to criticize Democrats. Democrats are like Mary Poppins, "practically perfect in every possible way."

[@jeviosoorishas181]

John got it wrong here.