Quotes from John H. McWhorter

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.