@Pioneer1 I never meant to completely discount anecdotes. They can be interesting and, when backed by actual data, quite powerful.
However, absence such data, I would just not use my personal anecdote as proof of anything dealing with all Black people or a more general audience. This is something you quite often, with reckless abandon. Do you see the difference?
So while I may tend to agree with you on the issue of the disappearing straight-Afro-America male in general I just don't have any proof -- other than my own anecdotes -- even as it relates to our representation in literature.
Even if you and I combined all of our anecdotes, on the subject, this would not be proof, no matter how good it made us feel or how right we feel we are.