This does not surprise me at all, sadly. The original Agents of Atlas miniseries had some rather screwed up colonialist issues - warring black tribes in Africa brought to peace through the wisdom and love of a white goddess? Why, it's a classic! And there were bonus black natives speaking English badly even though, get this, they were actually having their words translated by a Wakandan doohickey.
Then, just last night I was catching up on the new ongoing version of the series and noticed that Luke Cage has a similar problem as Thunderball, though not as extreme, thank god.