Maybe, but you have to agree that there's never been a push for the black premium like this from a well funded program and the influence of it is apparent everywhere.
Just look at what has happened and it wasn't overnight.
The sims in the 70's and 80's sure weren't very black, nor were the Lims
The RA's even though it is supposedly a colored version of the angus breed isn't getting the premium like the blacks do either.
TRends change markets of all products for long periods of time and some time seem almost irreversible.
So the question is, knowing the trends, if a black calf and a red calf walk into the ring and the black calf continually brings more (the reason doesn't matter), why would you go out of the way to produce another color if it takes the same input and effort unless you are trying to make a statement.
And if the statement is
"I'm ok with working as hard to produce a product that I know won't bring as much as another product which has the same production costs, and I willingly and knowingly understand I am throwing profits out the window"
And you believe that's a good thing, go ahead and do it, that's the good part about our country, you are free to choose to do whatever you want as long as you can bear the costs.
You just really can't blame others for your loss when you do and you can't complain about "fair" .
Amen! You are 100% dead on. And I might add, that I have never seen armed security at Kroger, forcing people at gun point to buy angus beef.. I don't buy it for hamburger, fajita, stew beef, etc. Even sometimes roast. But as long as people do demand it, Kroger will charge more for it. Because their packers charge them more for it, and pay more for carcasses that do acheive certified agent status. And as long as that premiunm is paid at the packers, then people down the chain...feed lots and their buyers... people who buy calves to condition and send to the feed lots, and the people who buy the weaned calves at the local sale to re-sale to conditioners, will gamble on a black calf bringing them more at the nest stop up the chain. The processors have NO gamble, the USDA inspectors tell them if this carcass scored CAB. The man buying the 6 mos old black calves, gambles the most. Probably less than 50% make it to CAB. But, ZERO percent of white, red, smoky, etc, calves will. The quality of the calf still pays a big part. I have seen top quality off-colored calves bring more than some of the not-so-nice black calves do. But a top quality black calf will bring more than the top-quality off-colored ones do. I have often said to myself, when I see someone on here complaining that his red calves don't bring what his black ones do: "
Well, get a homo for black and polled bull, or ****" There was never any need at all, for turning other breeds black. If you preferred the old line Herefords, then be a seed stock producer. Or the old red & white, Simms, the red Lims etc. . Plenty of market for these with commercial cow-calf producers. You can have a herd of Herfs, Simms, whatever, and just put an Angus bull on them, and they won't get "docked". Simms marble well. No need to have turned them into another Angus cross. You could breed those cows to a homo for black angus or Brangus, and get as good a calf as you could raising black Simms. Or put one of those bulls on your herd of Angus, and get the same thing.
In a parallel universe some where, if you could go back to the 70's, and instead of people turning breeds black, the breeders just selected for REA, marbling, polled, etc.,, and left the color alone, and just started breeding to Angus bulls when CAB was born, the calves produced would be as good or better, and the integrity of these other breeds would have remained intact.
I take advantage of it just like every one else. 
