Lennie James as announcer for Destiny 2 matches (with that gloriously non-American accent) is an excellent example of how we\u2019ve got past that Wesley Snipes/Eddie Murphy sidekick era
and even the Morgan Freeman/James Earl Jones Magical Negro/\u201cVoice of God\u201d 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\u2019s not you, he\u2019s 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 \u201clook I\u2019m a struggling young extended-family outer-borough dork but in touch with pop culture\u201d really should be black at this point
Still, Danny John-Jules and Tricky and Goldie put in the work and let\u2019s take a moment to appreciate it
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