No doubt Mr. Coates will learn his lesson -- the next time he's interviewed or writes a book, he'll check in first with the usual anonymous characters at the online Globe who'll inform him that black people have nothing to protest and white people like themselves are essentially blameless. It's much the way they inform female writers here that women have nothing to protest and males are essentially blameless. 
Given the worth of their comments -- of their glowing objectivity --
it's better for them that they remain anonymous.