Tiger woods is the modern one. He was deeply resented by a lot of people for saying that, but it's time like him to resistative victim hood focused identity. I don't accept that anybody is going to define themselves on the basis of how somebody might or might not sort of feel about them. The most important thing about being black is victimization or dismissal at the hands of whites. That's the essence of it. So no matter what you are, because of this this malevolence from white people, all of us are in the same boat. And that's what blackness is.
Dr. Shermer speaks with John McWhorter about his new online book on how the antiracism movement poses a threat to progressive America. Shermer and McWhorter discuss: antiracism as a religion; the 3 waves of antiracism; the antiracism trinity: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi; white fragility; Black Lives Matter; systemic racism (incarceration rates, housing, jobs, income, etc.); reparations; George Floyd, Tony Timpa and police violence; the N-word and language as violence; and Third Wave Antiracism catechism.