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Every ethnic group have a sub group that prefer literature or arts within their own culture. This is not just African Americans. Asians, europeans, and caucasians are also this way. It does not mean that they are racist, it just means that they are closed minded.

I don't think that is quite true. There may be a few African Americans trying to trace their roots back to Africa. I know there are many African Americans who read John Grisham and all that stuff (books) on the New York Times Best Seller List. They also watch movies by white actors. They watch drama/action on television (Prison Break, Grey Anatomy, 24, Lost, Heroes, Desperate Housewives and many other programs featuring white actors. As for comedy shows maybe they enjoy more comedies featuring African Americans comedians.

Cause they want to read interesting and inspiring information about their own people? Get over yourself. Not all blacks read books written by their own people.

You are wrong.....
And to mention black people ...you must be racist !!

they probally do that, for the same reason i just reported you.

I think they're trying to make up for what they perceive as too many "white people" in white people's culture. For example, perhaps they think the opposite is true and that white people only read books by white people, have paintings of white people in their houses and have playing cards with white people on them.

I think what you are doing is a generalization though, and if some black people think the same they are also making generalizations of white people.

It seems artificial to me when a company ad or a book will have so many different races and just one white character because I don't think it's a realistic representation of Americans and just strikes me as being annoyingly politically correct. But the opposite is true too, all white people is inaccurate, America is made up of many different types of people.

So, maybe black people like to try to create a "black culture" because they feel they have been robbed of their heritage when their ancestors were forcibly removed from Africa.

Nothing wrong with that, but I think we all need to understand that it's not about black vs. white. We ultimately all come from the same place.
The point I'm trying to make (and I know, it's not coming across very clearly) is that we are all people. We don't need to identify ourselves as being this label or that label. We don't need to surround ourselves with black or white or asian or any other type of culture, but just accept that we are all the same inside.

Racism isn't just hating people of another race. Racism is identifying yourself as the body and all it's external labels.

how many white homes have paintings of african americans in their homes?

Bob, it's my personal opinion is that you are making a huge generalization of something you really know nothing about.

I assume from your comments that you are a white american. Look around your home and tell us how many books by black authors you have, or how many african pistures you have on the wall. Do white folks "act weird"?
Think about the history of black amercians. Segregation was not too long ago. Black people were hardly ever seen on television in a positive role until twenty years ago.
Most black people in the US are descendants of people who were taken from Africa, put into slavery and oppressed for 400 years. Now there is freedom, but racism still exists.
Black americans should be proud to display paintings and books and listened to the words of other black americans, who are now free to express themselves and their ideas.
Only when white people and black people can understand and relate as one nation, will their be a common understanding in literature, art and even comedy.

You might not want to sound racist or anything but you do. I will read what ever I want to read and will not ask my neighbour, white or black, permission. Why?; because I enjoy reading what I read.