Why is it that of the 100 top characters over the last 20 years African Americans were only 11 of them? There were some obvious ones, such as #19 Morpheus played by Lawrence Fishburn and #28 Madea played by Tyler Perry. But, Denzel only made the list at #71 as Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day. How is it possible that he didn't make the list multiple times as Frank Lewis in American Gangster or Professor Melvin Tolson in The Great Debaters? The same is true for Morgan Freeman. He only made the list once at #48 as Red in The Shawshank Redemption. Yet, he was unbelievable as Nelson Mandella in Invictus, Carter Chambers in The Bucket List, and Ned in Unforgiven. How come they were overlooked? Completely missing from the list were Mama Morton from Chicago, played by Queen Latifah, Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction, played by Samuel Jackson, or Carl Brashear from Men of Honor, played by Cuba Gooding Jr.? Oddly, Hancock was #91, played by Will Smith. Yet his far better roles as Detective Sergeant James Edwards in Men in Black, Chris Gardner in the Pursuit of Happyness or Hitch were missing. What's up with that?
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