Lennie James as announcer for Destiny 2 matches (with that gloriously non-American accent) is an excellent example of how we’ve got past that Wesley Snipes/Eddie Murphy sidekick era

and even the Morgan Freeman/James Earl Jones Magical Negro/“Voice of God” era

To the Black Authority Figure Ideal? I mean the Michael Dorn version, but related to the Chiwetel Ejiofor-as-black-not-American ideal? Where the black man’s not you, he’s just part of something beside you all along that you can apologize for not having noticed

Which actually works for James Bond, he and Spider-Man “look I’m a struggling young extended-family outer-borough dork but in touch with pop culture” really should be black at this point

Still, Danny John-Jules and Tricky and Goldie put in the work and let’s take a moment to appreciate it