not sure. what do you mean exactly?
its obvious one of those areas where a lot of caveats are needed, but hopefully can take it in good faith on here that i'm not a massive racist and not type out all those caveats.
actually its one strand that Love Is The Message piece gets at, that we were talking about in the Arthur Jafa Industrial Complex thread. I feel it in england and in the US, that there is something in the minds of a lot of people, and in cultural products, that being black / 'blackness' is 'cool'. that's all i'm saying and am sure its not new to you. the green power ranger was really fucking cool (for a power ranger) and he was black, i don't think those things are unrelated. like they weren't going to make it a nerdy black guy were they; it was always going to be a cool black guy. i think his special move was called the 'hip hop kiddoo' or something.
anyway the point i'm trying to make is that this kind of essentialisation is part of the general problem, one part of the intellectual and cultural framework of racism or specifically anti-black racism of varying degrees of subtlety, in these two countries