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Imagine […] John Kerry trying to use the slogan ‘Yes We Can’ in his voice. No matter how he said it, it wouldn’t work, it wouldn’t have worked for Hillary Clinton, and it’s because they’re not black. There’s a way of saying that that gives it a kind of spiritual flavor that reaches people.
— Linguist John McWhorter, explaining that Barack Obama is a bidialectal president.
