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John McWhorter – The Best of "The Black Guys" 2021

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What's This Guy Do With Obama?

If it weren't for Ferguson, I think he would occupy a very different place. It meant that any sense that we were going to think about race on the basis of Obama or anything he said or represented just got flushed. And instead, everybody started zeroing in on this frankly overwrought and often exaggerated version of what goes on between black men and the cops. The Trayvon Martin story was nothing like what we were told back then. We both know that. More people know, but just don't want to talk about it that Michael Brown, that that story wasNothing like what we Were told.

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