I love villains! I am a huge Hannibal fan, for example, and I love Anansi form American Gods, but my biggest objection to white writers creating Black villains is that there are some who do so, from, as you said, a sense of malice.

Whether conscious or unconscious, they write black characters who are stand-ins for their racial resentment, and ignorance, and trust me, a lot of Black fans can tell when a white person is simply writing their interpretation of Blackness, instead of writing an actual character.

I would really like to see more wild, over the top, ostentatious Black villains in Fantasy, and Scifi, but I fear many white writers simply don’t have the range. Many of them have trouble writing just regular, or heroic characters, let alone villains.