John Stossel talks with Conservative Black Professor John McWhorter on Anti-racism, Victimhood, Testing, and Woke Language.

American Conservative University · Jul 29, 2026 · 34m

John Stossel talks with Conservative Black Professor John McWhorter on Anti-racism, Victimhood, Testing, and Woke Language.

Professor John McWhorter, author of "Woke Racism," argues that condescending leftist ideology hurts black people.

I learned a lot from this full, half-hour interview with Columbia linguist John McWhorter. He argues that "Woke Racism" hurts black people in many ways: from treating them as incapable of logic, to calling for abolition of tests, to insisting that violent kids stay in schools. He says that all these ideas are propped by a religion-like ideology that "requires…