Vaderisnothayden said:

I'm sorry but that's absolute bullshit. Characters should be kept faithful to hat they are. Black characters should not be made white and white characters should not be made black, etc. There's nothing racist about insisting on some faithfulness to the source material.

I'd agree, if being a white dude was somehow pivotal to Nick Furies character.

Superman should probably be white, as he's fundamentally representing a kind of nostalgic Mid-west view of America. A black Superman would probably change that archtype and effect audience perceptions.

Spider-Man is a geeky teenager, and (although he's probably too well know to do it) there's nothing pivotally "white" about being a geeky teenager, and I think a black Spider-Man would work just fine.

I'm not sure what (if anything) Nick Fury represents, but it never struck me that whiteness was an important part of it. He's a sneaky spy with an eyepatch who gives lots of exposition. He could be Hindu and still be just great at that.

ps.

I think Hasselhoff's protrayal of Fury is underrated. He did a good job as a jaded spy. It was when the film required him to be funny and ironic about it that he, and the entire abomination of a movie, didn't work.