White public intellectuals escape criticism for accessible prose that black peers receive.

Evidence

The politics of whiteness provides an often ignored theoretical framework for understanding why black intellectuals receive routine condemnation for speaking in a language labeled either simplistic or “too public.” One cannot but wonder why white public intellectuals like Jonathan Kozol or Barbara Ehrenreich who write in accessible prose and speak plainly are not subjected to the same criticism as Michael Dyson or bell hooks receive. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2650

Categorization

• QUESTION: The asymmetry claim is testable — are there comparable cases of white intellectuals being condemned for ‘celebrity punditry’ one could point to?
• XREF: connects to: Black writers were condemned for moving abroad where white writers were not. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 883