Barry, I've stated - twice - already my position regarding this. It's simplistic, unscientific and patronising to class people as "black" or "white", simply because there's no such ethnic grouping - the only commonality is in similarities in skin colour, otherwise the groups are as ethincally diverse as each other.
It's like classing all East Asian people as the same signle ethnic grouping, simply because they share a skin colour.
And to attribute common behaviour to "black" people, as Watson has clearly done, is at best less-than-rigorous, and at worst is racist.
So to be crystal-clear, my answer to your original question is: no, it's not appropriate to try to identify a common characteristic for "black people".
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