k wrote:

Interesting. Is there further evidence to support this assertion?

;)

Well, let's see...
Martin Lawrence is too stupid, and all the Waynes brothers are to strict to comedy or not ubiquitous enough, Eddie Murphy is almost there but he's just not endearing enough, Snipes and Samuel Jackson are too bad ass (even though Snipes did take a drag role). So, it could only be Ice Cube or Morgan Freeman.
I'd push toward Ice Cube just because he wasn't taken seriously as an actor when he started, while Morgan Freeman was. Plus Ice Cube is a much more universal plug-in (like Tom Hanks). Tom Hanks and Ice Cube can pull off the right sort of goofy when they need to and still not ruin the drama. Ice Cube does this much better than Freeman. Freeman is to Harrison Ford what Ice Cube is to Tom Hanks. Therefore, Ice Cube must be the black tom hanks.

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