>>150079149
Boondocks got it right 24 years ago

They overthink it mainly. Either they want them to try too hard to be a cool urban black guy, or they're too clean cut and inoffensive
Spawn was effectively conceived without a race in mind, McFarlane made him black because he wanted to name him after a guy he knew who was black and ran with it and thought there wouldn't be any reason why white readers wouldn't like a black character if he made him cool enough.