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A fascinating look at West African languages. So often, Africa is treated as some homogenous whole even though it has enormous diversity of language, culture etc. Thanks to John McWhorter for exposing us to a small part of that.

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Mar 29, 2022·edited Mar 29, 2022

Used to be all about "integration." Then it became all about distinctiveness in grooming, dress, music, name choices, etc. Tom Sowell said, when he visited colleges his kids might attend, he made it a point to look at cafeterias and libraries. If the students had chosen to separate by race, he was disinclined to proceed further.

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