racism. McWhorter criticized Robin DiAngelo's 2018 book White Fragility following its resurgence in sales during the George Floyd protests beginning in May 2020, arguing that it "openly infantilized Black people" and "simply dehumanized us", and "does not see fit to address why all of this agonizing soul-searching [for residual racism by white people] is necessary to forging change in society. One might ask just how a people can be poised for making change when they have been taught that pretty much anything they say or think is racist and thus antithetical to the good." In his 2021 book Woke Racism, McWhorter expands upon these viewpoints and argues that "third wave anti-racism" is a religion he terms "Electism" with white privilege as original sin. McWhorter likens the books White Fragility, How to Be an Antiracist and Between the World and Me to sacred religious texts. He argues that this hypothesized status as a religion explains the behavior of its adherents, whom he calls "the Elect". He advises that since the faith, being a faith, is not open to discussion, arguments with its adherents should be avoided in favor of pragmatic action against racism. McWhorter advocates three programs: ending the war on drugs, teaching reading by phonics to children lacking books at home, and free vocational education, promoting the idea that not everyone needs a four-year college education to succeed. Personal life McWhorter has two daughters. He separated from his wife in 2019. He plays the piano and has appeared in musical theater productions. Bibliography 1997: Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis 1998: Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a "Pure" Standard English 2000: Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America 2000: The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages 2000: Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America 2001: The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language 2003: Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority 2003: Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care 2005: Defining Creole 2005: Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America 2007: Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars 2008: All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America 2008: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English 2011: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress? 2011: What Language Is: (And What It