Article is full of bs. In our area, whites are not in a good many ads. These days blacks are the only people shown to buy and drive expensive cars. Buy Top brand makeup and skincare products. Are doctors and I swear every Hallmark movie has a black mayor and/or company boss (and usually they are black women). There has not been a real balance these days.
That was true even in the 1980s. Judges were often "tough as nails, no nonsense" black women.
And don't forget all the small town black sheriffs.
You can actually guess whether a small town sheriff is good or evil by his skin color. If a group of city folks enter a rural small town, especially in the South, and the sheriff is black, he's a good guy. If he's white, he's an evil sheriff and part of whatever wicked deeds are occurring in that town.