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Billege, I can see your point, primarily because I'm faced with the same stimulus that seems to have triggered this from you.
As a white male, the only real insight I (we) tend have into the african male psyche is via the mainstream media and that usually happens to be black rap at the moment. You use a LOT of rap and rappers for your argument. I think you might have a little too much media generated bias in your argument, but I fully see the why and wherefore of it.
The afro-centric movies are all about black gangsters.
African sports stars only seem to share the limelight when they're winning, taking drugs or in rape cases. Not that white sportsmen don't do that, but you see less biographies of 'great black athletes' than you do of white men.
I guess you could even say the same about women, of any colour.
I'd like to see a 'Right stuff' movie about a black astronaut.
Or a Black bill Gates.
We need more heroes today to take the podium from the bad elements.
Someone wrote a good article a while ago asking where the Arab worlds' Ghandi was.
We really need some good role models today. White, black, whatever.
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