It's kind of unfair to TNC, because big name Black public intellectuals are like the Sith, they only allow 2 at a time, at most. So those 2 are expected to address everyone's concerns and areas of interest. TNC's thing is white supremacy and its effect on Black people (men). He doesn't do gender. He doesn't do deep philosophy. He doesn't do high level academic economic analysis. But everyone wants him to do all that stuff at a high level, so they get frustrated with him when he won't, or can't. And, to his credit, he has tried, in the past, but critiquing white supremacy is his strongsuit.