Should he have been fired?

Regarding some of #10, I think some of this is grounded in fact (if only loosely so). Although there is some anti-intellectualism in predominantly white communities, it's twice as bad in black communities. I'll let a black man talk for me.

Bill Cosby has lamented that for years. I always felt bad for him that he tried so hard to give his people role models to show them they didn't have to be defined by, or play to, cultural assumptions and generally got nowhere for it. Goodness knows Obama was repeatedly accused of being "too white" because he didn't fulfill the stereotypes that many black people spend their entire lives trying to overcome.

I think a large part of the problem is that a subset of them cling to stereotype in lieu of an actual cultural identity since so much of theirs was taken from them and wiped out and hasn't had time to redevelop independently. That's not very healthy though; look at the subset of gays who do the same thing by being promiscuous, drug abusing/alcoholic and super flamey because they think that's what's expected of them or view it as a form of rebellion.