The Danger of Ray Rice, The Media and Black men

First let me say I hate domestic violence. As a child I use to have to go to school with black eyes, and say I fell down, when in truth I got them attempting to protect my mother from my father.
I have never hit a woman, despite being taunted by one who had one purpose, she wanted me to hit her so I would go to jail. She did everything including spit in my face. So no man can tell me he had an excuse to beat a woman.
That being said I am concerned about the coverage of Ray Rice and his wife regarding the now infamous video tape of him hitting his girlfriend at the time.
A little history first.
I remember when domestic violence was treated in the same manner as jay walking. Even in the case of jay walking at least a you got a ticket. Many times, the police would tell the male to take a walk, spend the night somewhere else. Even if the woman wanted to press charges, the police would upon the request of her husband, usally talk her out of it.
All that changed in 1994. It took the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, to bring about the zero tolerance law that exist today. The linchpin was the, the 911  tape from Nicole Brown and the photos shown in the media of her bruised face.
Many in the black community wondered, was the outrage because O.J. Simpson beat Nicole Simpson, or was it, because a black man hit a white woman?

My concern is this. Could  Ray Rice becoming the face of domestic violence, effect all black men?

With the history of racism in this country that is not a unfair question.
It is safe to say that Jerry Sandusky did not signal in anyway that all White men were child molesters. Unless you are a black racist. Yet too many times I have heard comments about blacks like this, "They kill their babies", They are lazy and don't want to work, they are all on welfare." "They are thugs and are all in single parent homes where the father is absent". The list goes on and on.
Could there be a underlying attempt to signal that white girls should not date black men, because they will beat you?
When I see cable news program whose primary purpose is to cover political issues, devote almost their entire coverage to Ray Rice and Domestic violence, with photos of Ray Rice all over the media, yes as a black man it concerns me.
When I turn on the TV and read in the media and social media sites, that Ray Rice and his wife are a target and not the issue of domestic violence, yes as a black man it concerns me.

Again I am not taking up for Ray Rice what he did was despicable and there is no excuse. Had it been my daughter or granddaughters, I don't want to say what I would be inclined to do him in a private setting.
All I am asking is that the media be careful not to make Ray Rice the face of domestic violence perpetrators.

Black men in America have enough unfair negative labels to deal with.