re: NYTimes - I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.

McWhorter is linguist with a focus on Creolist language. He's a classical liberal who finds BLM to be an obnoxiously racist group, the climate change crowd to be analogous to a radical religion (and has written a book on it) and has spoken on and written extensively on how what the black community needs to focus on isn't "muh white privilege" but the death of the black, nuclear family and lack of positive black, male role models.

He does a weekly podcast with Glenn Loury (a black economist), usually on race issues. Most here would agree with the vast majority of their stances (especially Glenn, who is a conservative).

I can't read the rest of the OpEd because of the paywall, but having read and listened to his works for years I seriously doubt he's agreeing with the protestors.