I would suggest that the fault in this type of thinking is in the words "black community." What is the black community, anyway? Has anyone defined it?
Answer: No, there is no definition of "black community." It is a concept that is shorthand for something - more to do with groupthink and the tyranny of low expectations than anything even close to reality.
Keep it simple. Content of character is a powerful concept and one that can be evaluated by actions as well as words. An imagined "black community" has no character, only color.
In the context that I use Black Community, I am referring to Black Leadership, in as much as they are foisted upon us as the voice of the entire race, which of course is BS.. But as long as there are so few that are willing to refute the loudmouthed race-baiters, I am losing respect for the lot, in a general sense..
Many of my business partners and associates were of color, I hold my powder because I know the larger characterizations of any group, good or bad, are absurdly unfair... :)
An imagined “black community” has no character, only color...
...so then, one should feel perfectly safe in walking through the ‘imagined black community’ on a Saturday night during the height of summer...