I don't think there would be much of a discussion here.

Diallo Kenyatta is not one I would confuse as the "buppie blogger class" who has said the same exact things about Umar as I and others have. in fact, his Umar critiques sound a lot like Cornel West and Adolph Reed talking about TNC, LOL.

Umar is getting the attention, because people are seeing him re-blogged, his Youtubes are showing up, and he's made appearances in various places. Umar is -out there-. Thus there's a lot of documentation on how this dude gets down, at least in the store of ideas (except on how his crowdfunds are being dispersed).

VSB and The Root are going at dude because they, too, are popular and most of the people reading would give a shit.

in short: the objections people have against Umar are not only "respectable middle class" concerns and they shouldn't be cast as such.