"I haven't been a black conservative since 1995..."

Glenn Loury talks about people he's known for 40 years who won't say hello, who won't look him in the eye because he USED TO BE ...

"People like Obama, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and Tony Blair can talk you into anything."

"I sort of prefer the square, stilted politicians like Romney, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore. " To me, they seem more ...

"[T]he quiet succor Obama gave to black homophobes with his 'evolving' line on gay marriage was always just as ugly as it was unnecessary..."

... writes John McWhorter article in TNR. [P]lus, for someone of his demographic and biography, it was more than a little fake. (Did the Har...

"Herman Cain Played the Race Card, But Liberals Are the Ones Who Dealt It."

John McWhorter: Liberals have not only failed to acquit themselves well with their self-righteous deployments of race allegations—they have ...

"A conversation with an imagined young black flash mobber."

Glenn Loury is struck by what Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter had to say.

Birtherism and racism.

John McWhorter and Glenn Loury talk it out. The diavlog begins with McWhorter asserting that birtherism is not about race:

"He's ethnic but nonthreateningly ethnic — and so this is the Obama thing again."

John McWhorter, musing about the presidential potential of Marco Rubio. (Via Insta .)

"People have been seeing too many Blaxploitation movies and kind of enjoyed Shaft..."

"... and they like the idea of this true black man... getting angry on television." Why do people want Barack Obama to get angry? ...

"I don't think you like the man."

Something "really bothered" Glenn Loury about "all that adulation," but....

"Eddie Long ... should openly admit what he did, disavow his antigay positions..."

"... and serve as a beacon to a black community that needs to get beyond an unthinking prejudice especially unseemly in a group positio...

John McWhorter worries about the way, if Obama loses, black people will (wrongly) say it was racism.

In this TNR piece: Even now, the idea that white swing voters might pass on him because of his positions or campaign performance is consider...

Glenn Loury and John McWhorter on McCain and Obama at the Saddleback Civil Forum.

How the 2 candidates' styles vary: Also, Loury really objects to the way Obama talked about Clarence Thomas: ADDED: Some equal time for ...