““Sorry it’s not the media who is doing that. It’s blacks themselves who are doing it.”
That’s a point well taken and no different than the “moderate” muslims who give their tacit approval to “radical” islam by not stepping up and saying something for fear of reprisals. If there is safety in numbers, then it would behoove the “moderates” to get together and gang up on the “radicals”.
Your analogy has some validity but also some crucial weaknesses. People are born into Islam just like people are born with a racial identity, but a black person cannot decide to quit being black. On the other hand, a person could decide to leave Islam. I don’t think blacks who live their lives as they should are in any way obligated to denounce other blacks for their wrong behavior in order to be accepted as black people.
Even though it may be human nature to be prejudice, we ought to resist this inclination. I like this conversation in The African Queen:
Charlie Allnut (Bogart): A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it’s only human nature.
Rose Sayer (Hepburn): Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.