This is the first I have heard of, or read the views of Professor McWhorter.
I don't know that I buy most blacks actually enjoy "victimhood", perhaps too many like the appearance of victimhood, as an excuse.
"Anti-Intellectualism", at least in the popular culture probably is a stumbling block. Again, I don't know that blacks are to blame for the popular media. Last time I looked I didn't notice they owned Time-Warner, Disney or any of the media giants who glorify gansterism. Perhaps there are willing consumers, but If they had a little bit more power in the media I'm sure we would get songs, movies and images of the black experience that aimed a little higher.
McWhorter makes a good point that reparations, essentially, have been signed sealed and delivered to some in the black community. I guess where I have a problem with affirmative-action is when the son of a wealthy middle class black family gets preference, on a racial basis, over some white kid from a disavantaged background.
As for crime, I think there would be less of it if the black middle class expanded. I'm not using poverty itself, as an excuse for criminal behavior, but I strongly believe the two parent middle class family, of whatever color would make a difference. The need for "profiling", which is an abstract science, would go down, as the black crime rate declined.
Race mixing, does not, personally threaten me. I had a couple of black girlfriends, when I was younger, and I would have no problem with my sons marrying the same. I just feel threatened, honestly, by some blacks who want to get job advantages or educational advantages that work to my or my children's detriment, by reasons of color. Any honest person would say the same.
Again, thanks for the article.
You are right in pointing out that this permeates the whole culture. It's just that the effects on blacks are more devastating (especially when coupled with victimology) since we can least afford it.
Also, much of blacks' anti-intellectualism was copied from popular culture. A lot of blacks only adapt attitudes and behaviors that they see sanctioned in the larger culture. Sad but that's the way it too often is.