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This is Colin.  Bethany and I have spent the last two hours watching John McWhorter on CSPAN.  He’s an elitist New York liberal, straight out of Berkeley, but a moderate one–and more than anything I like moderates, people who can speak intelligently and without passion.  So the liberal political machine hates him like they hate Joe Lieberman or like “conservatives” hate John McCain.  But the people love him for exactly the same reason.  Anyway, he’s a linguist who has written many books about the reality of the black experience in America, and not just the apotheotic Dave Chappell garbage you hear from most of the media outlets.  And since I’m a linguist who works with black kids for a living, it’s refreshing to know there are intellectual moderates willing to tackle the correlative issues.  Anyway, check out the rerun of what we’re watching off CSPAN.org, or, if it’s too long for you or you refuse to install CSPAN’s required RealAudio Player, check him out on YouTube.