Maybe
Perhaps racism is the reason that these valiant scholarly attempts at whitesplaining away America’s racial toxicity exist in the first place. In any other scientific discipline, the general consensus would adhere to the tried and true methodologies found in every other field of research. Maybe white people genuinely cannot fathom that white supremacy is responsible for these racial incongruities because, by proxy, it would also mean that they benefit from these inequities.
There was a webcomic called Sinfest that I used to follow that portrayed the Patriarchy like the Matrix—once you were tuned into it, you saw it everywhere. I think it’s like that with racism in America, too. It’s so pervasive, so entwined with everything that once you start seeing it, you see it all over because it is all over.