I, too, would like to see people like McWhorter give their views in black settings. But I suspect that they don't want to do so, because perhaps they don't want to p*** off their benefactors. Who really is funding these cats, Project 21, etc?
As an aside, I was reading an article from a British paper on Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor, and he had an interesting comment that sort of relates to what we're talking about here:
"My TV series is really about that very dilemma.
What I call the black cultural nationalist imaginary - the belief that we are all united because we are black and descended from slaves and have a common enemy called 'whitey' - no longer applies. It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. "
For the full article, peep:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,...716016,00.html