John McWhorter, [Email him/Tweet him] who teaches at Columbia, is one of a handful of blacks who write sensible things about race. He complains that the media bellow whenever police kill a black man but are silent when they kill a white man, and worries that claims of “systemic racism” are leading to a movement to exempt blacks from standards.
But Prof. McWhorter’s Substack review of Charles Murray’s latest book,
Facing Reality, is deliberately blind. Its value goes beyond Prof. McWhorter, however, because it’s an explicit statement of the mental prison people on the Left and Right build for themselves and for the country: “I reject facts I don’t like.”
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