Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

My guest today is John McWhorter.

John is a linguistics professor at my alma mater, Columbia University.

He is also a columnist for the New York Times, and most importantly, he is one of my personal heroes.

Today, John and I talk about whether we are living in a post-woken era.

We talk about the trend of more Black Americans voting Republican. We talk about how immigration from around the world

has changed America's national conversation about race. We talk about the casting choices in

Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey. We talk about recent controversies surrounding

the Voting

Rights Act and gerrymandering, and much more. So without further ado, John McWhorter.

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