Canada and Florida are not at opposite ends of North America… I'm just saying.

Malcolm X was a real person. Shaft was a character in the blaxploitation genre of film therefore his ethnicity is a large part of his character. Race, as far as I'm aware, is not and never has been an issue in Spider Man comic books, nor is Spider Man marketed as a “great white American hero” so I don't see how the change could hurt.

exactly.

That's not Zelda. It's Link.