He is making a mistake. He is supposed to take the role of what used to be called The Magical Negro. Once I heard of it and read the Wikipedia entry I recognized it.
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Denzel Washington, Muhammad Ali, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones and many more.
Bring out compassion, sympathy and have people rooting for them, with no fear of their being an outsider or a danger to anyone.
Which actually is what our black friends in our personal lives are like.
Spike Lee popularized the term in 2001 and others said the
role reassures white people. A film and novel Magical Negro example is said to be To Sir, With Love (Poitier) or a black man who sacrifices his own life to save Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones. A political writer said Obama was one, popular and balancing Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg to Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro