I know I live in San Francisco, and whatnot, and we all want legal dope and gay guys marrying sheep and whatnot, but you may not find a bigger fan of Nick Fury and SHIELD than me. I did CABLE writer Joe Casey a solid and he asked me how he could repay me and I asked to be a SHIELD agent in his book. He made me #3 in SHIELD after Fury and GW Bridge. I own the flying cars... the Air Cav. The Jack Truman Deathlok body-switched me and took my body to live a happy life. I'm a character in the 616. I didn't ask for a good bottle of Scotch or whatever; I wanted to be in SHIELD.
And I have to say: talking about "color" and the Nick Fury character is sort of bad form. Fury is the Marvel Universe superspy. If he looks like Sean Connery or Samuel L. Jackson or Helen Mirren or Angela Bassett it's no never-mind to us.