Yeah. It’s why it’s weird to have a black chick as the queen of a medieval European period. Although in context Tom Cruise made sense in Last Samurai, that’s also why that film got criticized for that because it’s a deeply Japanese thing and the last samurai’s a white guy.

Sometimes it’s fine as long as everything else is good, like Stranger Things making the black kid a star basketball player and getting a nice girl and all that. He was also decidedly not urban ghetto black, which was true of his sister as well. He was just some kid, which was great. Most great black characters in film and TV aren’t usually ghetto welfare black types into hip hop, unless the fact that they are is the point of the joke, like Fresh Prince of Belair.

It’s probably no coincidence that all popular black actors and actresses seemingly never play the ghetto black stereotype. Idris Elba, Denzel, etc. The closest you’d get is Samuel L Jackson but for the most part he just says Motherfucker better than anyone in history, he’s not usually made out to be ghetto. The ones that do try seem to have their careers go nowhere eventually, like Martin Lawrence. Kevin Hart’s right on the line but he basically plays the formerly ghetto guy that made it and is rich and isn’t really all that ghetto outside of a hip hop vibe. I might be wrong as I’m not a scholar of black actors and actresses off the top of my head but at least thinking on it, it appears true.