In modern mass media the number of positions and role models for black people is still very limited: you can dance, you can sing, you can be funny and you can fight. That’s about it. There are hardly any black characters out there with some depth or complexity.

At least blacks can play themselves these days - and no longer white guys in makeup. We still have to see more Hamlet or Sherlock Holmes in black characters - and less anger, music, sex play and violence …