Lol this has been going on a long time. Idk how old you are, but in the 80s there were black action movie heroes, black people made their own movies, and there was a spectrum of blackness being covered in the movies, not just a caricature of blackness.
Fast forward to the 90s. Gang bangers and drug dealers galore. If you saw a man that, by most accounts, had his shyt together, worked a decent job and took care of his family, you best believe he was portrayed as a cold, abusive, tyrant. Black women are still being targeted by those kinds of movies, just check Netflix. Movies like how stella got her groove back and any number of tyler perry movies showed black women that the ideal relationship is one where the man solves all your emotional needs, but the man isnt wealthy or powerful enough to be like Mister from color purple. So a lot of black women raised their sons to be emotionally attentive but completely lack ambition and discipline. On the flip side, the ratchet part of the community raised their sons to be like the drug dealers they fell in love with on the screen.
Theres been an all out assault on masculinity for decades. Black people were the test subjects. It worked so well on us it's now being tried on white men. And as soon as Latinos began to flex more power politically you're going to see articles and think pieces about toxic machismo.
It's all about having a docile populace with no family ties except to the government
