I don't mind characters like that either. Scratch and Grounder from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and rosencrantz and guildenstern from Hamlet had similar personalities as well and it didn't bother me.
Eh I liked that Sonic cartoon when I was a kid.
Never liked any of the other Sonic cartoons I've seen.
He's black as fu*k. And voiced by Bumper Robinson.
I guess he doesn't qualify as African American to cubed because he doesn't say things like "yessa massa", "sup dawg", "yo", "kill whitey" and "shee-it negro!"