John McWhorter and I sat and talked in the aftermath of president Barack Obama's speech to the NAACP. I argue that there's a difference in Obama's talk on race before he was president and after. We also talk Sonia Sotomayor, political organizing, the Philadelphia pool incident and the "Joshua Generation." Here's the cut:

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