@The Liberal Moonbat Regarding the feud with Ta Nehisi Coates, which he Cornell did not loose, in fact those of us who followed it all won. My best understanding of that feud- THN writes a book, maybe called For Eight Years We Were In Power extolling the greatness of Obama and suggesting it was a watershed moment for Black America and how much better off BA was because of Obama. Brother Cornell calls him out on the thesis of said book. Points out that by all metrics BA is worse off today, and being judged on a curve no administration has seen such downward mobility amongst BA than the Obama admin. Cornell points out all sorts of stats from home ownership, incarceration, employment, indebtedness, homelessness, and much much more and shows that there has never been an administration that has been so detrimental to Black Americans. Sure, there was a time when things were worse, but never a time period under one administration when things went backwards so fast so quick. So many of the gains of the previous decades were wiped out.
TNC and CW had at least an online spat- Twitter? or something similar? CW held his ground and in my opinion prevailed in the debate.
That is my best recollection and I only offer it up as at this time no one else has responded to this question of yours.
This spat has led me to believe that TNC (who I had previously had great admiration for) is possibly one of the worst incrementalist and undermining Uncle Tom's of our time. I know those are harsh words and if someone else has a better explanation of this spat I am open minded to hearing it. But to this day I find TNC pushing reparations IN THE WAY that he is to be terribly undermining and counterproductive to racial justice.
If one watches the entire video, which I recommend and thank OP for bringing it to my attention (this truly is worth your two hours) I think the conversation about "peacocking" relates strongly to this type of spat. (I think BAR might refer to those like TNC as "black misleadership class".)

Particularly helpful was his explanation of "representation" and vicarious living - it does a LOT to explain the downright disturbing behavior (let's call some of it "Afro-narcissism") I saw surrounding, for example, the Black Panther movie. I once got a political E-mail urging me to PLEDGE to see Marvel's Black Panther - you know, like doing so would be the equivalent of PLEDGING to go to Standing Rock or something. I never got any such E-mails asking me to do that for Selma or Moonlight. It was FUBAR. Online PACs ought to have better things to do than "pleasepleaseplease go see this big-budget Hollywood blockbuster!!1!!" - I mean, I could see an E-mail being sent out to alert people to an obscure, low-budget (or even banned) political documentary, but this? This was like those shrill, hysterical, crappy attempt at guilt-tripping, TYPES LIKE THIS!!! E-mails I'd been getting from the Dems in 2016. Even the people back on DailyKos agreed those were stupid.

Anyway, what Dr. West said about "representation" and wealth inequality within the ethnicity helped me make sense of the "Afro-narcissism".

By the way, what was this whole thing were he was in a blood feud with Ta-Nehisi Coates (and lost, for some reason)? What's that guy's deal, even? Why did it feel like people were trying to shove him down my throat at DailyKos?

One disturbing thing to come out of all that for me, though: I had to start thinking for the first time in my life about what African-Americans even had to do with ME. I never had a problem with black people. I've lived my whole life in places where "whites" were a minority, but there also were very few "blacks" (first Silicon Valley, then New Mexico). The black people I knew were good people - primarily the family whose matriarch swooped in after my grandmother died and became "Nana" to my then-baby brother, and her family basically became his second family. If I've ever been taught any prejudice toward blacks, it's that they're nice and I can trust them. A black cop pulled me over on the highway when I was speeding (New Mexico cops are hardly the nation's finest, particularly in Albuquerque, where their favorite targets are NOT people who are the same color that most of them are, but the mentally-ill and just plain weird - if someone like George Zimmerman had been stalking the streets of Albuquerque, he'd sooner have gone after ME than Trayvon Martin), did his initial chewing-out, but totally turned around when I started crying, and taught me how to use cruise-control, which my driving instructors (father included) all neglected to do.

I know American history - I read Black Like Me in middle-school, was introduced to A People's History of the United States in my freshman year of high school, and have always sympathized with black people's problems out of the simple goodness of my heart.

What's been going on recently, though, has forced me to realize something: I don't OWE them anything. There is no more reason I should care about them any more than I should care about Yemenis or Maldivans (REAL victims can't afford to piss and moan, let alone monetize their pissing and moaning, and don't even want to should circumstances get good enough that those options become viable). I grew up in Silicon Valley - they should perceive me the same way they'd perceive Oriental or Middle Eastern people, because that's most of who I grew up with. I may have the kind of skin that would make me a shoe-in for a role in a vampire/Tolkien movie, but I am NOT "white". My father's not "white", he's Jewish (Are Jews white? [url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/6/18/742552/-]a plurality of DailyKos says "No"[/url]). My mother's not "white", she's a miscegenating hippie (and I have concluded that a great deal of the very real hate directed at "hippies" had specifically racial undertones). NONE of my ancestors owned slaves (WTF are you going to do with African slaves when you're not even allowed to own land?), or ever lived anywhere near the South. Half my ancestry never even set foot in this hemisphere until the 20th Century, and the majority of the other half didn't make it here until after the Civil War. I have ZERO obligations to black people, if push comes to shove, and this new racism-with-progressive-lipstick basically buries me - who, being autistic, have never even felt nor wanted to be HUMAN, let alone some stupid subcategory thereof - in the wall like Fortunato at the hands of a sadistic, psychotic Montresor (no coincidence that "For the love of God!" has become one of my new favorite expletives for a while now). "IDENTITY POLITICS", AND ITS MALIGNANT PSEUDOINTELLECTUAL UNDERPINNINGS, DENY NOT ONLY MY VERY EXISTENCE, BUT EVEN THE POSSIBILITY FOR MY EXISTENCE.