“My personal experience is that blacks tend to (1) have an exaggerated view of their competence and (2) attribute their inability to advance despite their manifest competence to systemic racism. Surveys indicate that blacks have the highest self-esteem of any ethnic/racial group.”
It is an act to over-compensate; they see people speaking and reading in ways they can’t begin to understand. From what I see, many have no self-esteem at all.
Unless they confide their innermost thoughts to you, how can you know that it's a facade? Fraud's counter-intuitive psychoanalysis through Greek mythology has warped thinking about what makes people tick for over a century now. Sometimes Usually, a cigar is just a cigar.