Part of my assumptions also revolve around my experiences with African American (and African) colleagues. We've talked of similar issues, WRT race and culture,

Part of my assumptions also revolve around my experiences with African American (and African) colleagues. We've talked of similar issues, WRT race and culture, and they have expressed similar problems. Those are most certainly single data points, but they also tell of pervasive issues: being a good student was "bad", book learning was "white", males be a player rather than a father, sexual abuse and general abuse proliferate in their music, movies regularly play to "black" stereotypes.... Obviously all don't ascribe to these. That's the problem with stereotypes. But when the culture gains a critical mass of these 'problems', there needs to be a more critical discussion about the actions. I'm perfectly fine that a great deal of laws through the last 300 years has caused a great deal of their culture to go a direction. And that falls on us all.