"It's a reflection on society having these implicit biases in general. Plus, this is all for a situation where none of them are bad. It gets even messier when some of them are problematic."

You have again made my point for me. Society has these implicit biases, and life is not going to change for the better for any of us until we examine them and change society so that they are no longer practiced. No one at an institution of higher learning said "Gee, all of the black depictions are physical activities?" There are two problems there. The first is the depictions themselves, and the second is that no one questioned them. I am not talking about creative pursuits. The artist didn't make the choices. The university made the choices. I am talking about LIFE.