Btw, are you aware that Matisyahu Hamacabbi (whose victory over the Yevanim we will soon be celebrating) was an African American (Actually, america wasn't around then!) according to Matisyahu?
Can't say that I am, but I also can't say it matters to me (all that much).
It is not for me to sit in judgment of a person I could not possibly understand. (Yes, oftentimes that notion is aspirational, but I found the original comment ostensibly sympathetically bemoaning the woe of wife and children entirely... unreasonable.)
I'll leave the question of higher standard for public figures alone for now.
And is this not a judgement?!
If you can't see the difference, nothing I say is going to change that.
Now here is where--if I were you--I might say: "Oh, your poor wife and children! Oiy!"