If one accepts the premise that most mainstream media editors and producers are progressive, it's therefore unsurprising that the image of American Blacks depicted is, to quote Hillary Clinton, "super-predators who must be brought to heel ( like animals ); cop hating rioters (acting animalistically) or political puppets mouthing leftist talking points ( like parrots, an upgrade of the animal theme).
Self-governing Black citizens are reduced to cameo roles in their own depiction. Conservative ones, arguably the most self-governed of the self-governing, are type cast as lost dissenters within the current of their own community.