{"id":6540,"date":"2023-03-09T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fair-for-all.org\/los-angeles\/?page_id=6540"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:21:28","slug":"fair-los-angeles-book-club-07-mar-29-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/los-angeles\/fair-los-angeles-book-club-07-mar-29-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Los Angeles Book Club #07 \u2013 Mar. 29, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6540\" class=\"elementor elementor-6540\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3320bff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3320bff\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/los-angeles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/woke-racism2-e1678388192247.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/los-angeles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/woke-racism2-e1678388192247-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">\"Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America\" by John McWhorter<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\"><br>The FAIR LA Book Club will return in March 2023 with a discussion of John McWhorter's bestselling 2021 book <i>Woke Racism.<\/i> The discussion will be led by FAIR Los Angeles member Anne Chomyn. McWhorter is on the FAIR Board of Advisors and is linguistics professor at Colombia University. McWhorter describes himself as a \"Black liberal of about 1960,\" but he argues that the cultural left has led companies and institutions down a path of so-called \"anti-racism\" that looks more like actual racism than not. He points to the election of Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin in 2021 as an indication that even many traditional liberals don't support the reductionist view on race promoted by \"woke\" activists, and he criticizes the political trend of \"pious, unempirical virtue signaling.\" Written largely in response to the watershed events of summer 2020, John McWhorter, using a metaphor, suggests that the woke should be warded off the way swimmers would ward off an approaching shark: simply by \"bopping it on the nose.\" With his impeccably polite demeanor and eloquent words, McWhorter gives a gentle \"bop on the nose\" in this unapologetic reality check, which he bases on objective facts and examples and reasonable analysis.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-784970df elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"784970df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Meeting Information:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7780af9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7780af9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Date: <b>March 29,<\/b><strong>\u00a02023<\/strong> (Wednesday)<\/li><li>Time: <strong>7:00PM<\/strong> to <strong>8:30PM (PDT)<\/strong><\/li><li>Location: Online via Zoom.<\/li><\/ul><p>RSVP at the link below and we will send you the Zoom meeting link on the day before the meeting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ea2d4a0 elementor-align-left elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"3ea2d4a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woke-Racism-Religion-Betrayed-America\/dp\/0593423062\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1678390922&amp;sr=8-1\">Amazon<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Woke-Racism-Audiobook\/0593509900?qid=1678391013&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=0F0GNV5J4HQ71DPWE0VT&amp;pageLoadId=ZJb6JBlyhq4sbnk6&amp;creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c\">Audible<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/woke-racism-john-mcwhorter\/1139533814?ean=9780593423066\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7K2wA6Ks7cWJvWC9DaXKDd\">Spotify<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-244bb424\" data-id=\"244bb424\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1723644b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1723644b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Links About the Book:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-603fa0f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"603fa0f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In preparation for our book club discussion, you might check out the following links:<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/book-review-woke-racism-by-john-mcwhorter-11634596283?st=hksu1r687n20g16&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> \u2013 Book review by Tunku Varadarahan. (read or listen \u2013 7min)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/05\/1052650979\/mcwhorters-new-book-woke-racism-attacks-leading-thinkers-on-race\">NPR Morning Edition<\/a> \u2013 Book summary and interview highlights. (read or listen \u2013 6min)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w1CS73BnjT0\">PBS NewsHour<\/a> \u2013 Interview and report by Jeffery Brown. (YouTube \u2013 7min)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u9quq9NGUcM\">The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast <\/a>\u2013 Interview of McWhorter by Jordan Peterson. (YouTube \u2013 1h 17m)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5_vn84FKqqU\">Commonwealth Club of California<\/a> \u2013 A webinar discussion with McWorther led by Debra J Saunders. \u00a0(YouTube \u2013 59min)<\/li><\/ul><p>John McWhorter has a\u00a0Substack:<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/6527799-john-mcwhorter\">https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/6527799-john-mcwhorter<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America&#8221; by John McWhorter The FAIR LA Book Club will return in March 2023 with a discussion of John McWhorter&#8217;s bestselling 2021 book Woke Racism. The discussion will be led by FAIR Los Angeles member Anne Chomyn. 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