I don't disagree with his advice. It's good advice.
Nonetheless.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Uncle%20Tom&defid=3731911
My post was a Malcolm Gladwell-type "blink" thought, prompted by the OP.
Just a sense I get that he has ideas that would cross a certain line of acceptability, and he's made a conscious decision not to cross that line -- the line that would make white folks a little *too* uncomfortable, and probably a lot of middle-class black folks as well.
But at the same time he cultivates a certain edginess, a certain dangerousness.
But it's a packaged sort of edginess and danger. Processed.
What does "Uncle Tom" mean? One writer describes it as "back-bending, grinning, and yielding" to please white people.
Although he's very talented and funny guy, there's something a bit fake about his persona. Something I sense of that "back-bending, grinning, and yielding" to please his white audience.