i've said it b4, you can't have a black man playing a character with fire abilities, b/c everyone is gonna think "did he burn himself? did his powers go out of whack?" "oh nope, he's not char, he's black"
for a fire char, there's 2 ways to signify damage, they either get all melty, melty or they're burned to a crisp... black.
if they wanted to "black" someone up, they should have blacked up ben grimm, he's admittedly the worst of the 4, no one cares for him and once he becomes "the thing" skin color isn't even an issue! but he'll have had the origin of being a black guy.
is it so hard to see reed richards having a black guy for a best friend?
there's no way reed richards could have been black, they wouldn't want to deal with the whole inter-racial marriage thing.
hell even black panther married storm, somehow the only black king of the world decided to marry like 1 of 3 black women super heroes, and then he annulled the marriage, just cuz he could cuz he's king, like every black man's dream.
(i guess the only inter-racial marriage is luke cage and jessica, whatever the fuck she is, but that's a different marvel property)