Okay.
Because I've been saying... *semi*-similar for years, I'm gonna address this.
The difference is I have no problem with colorblind casting. Keep doing it. It's a standard in plays and theatre ESPECIALLY, and has been since well into the early 20th century.
The actual problem is not *ALSO* covering the lived experiences of Black people who did actually exist in these spaces throughout history.
Because it gives the "anti-wokeys" aka the rebranded incel beige khakis tiki torch kkk/nazis means to be confidently ignorant about Black people being "forced" and "shoved" (and I could digress about the wording always being akin to sexual assault, because they always fear most what they'd like to be free to do to others...) into narratives where they *actually* existed, irl.
...And not always in the simplistic "slave, servant, underling" context.
I recommend this college lecture about regular-egular Black Tudors living lives with jobs and families and everything, as an example:
And I think it's purposely suppressed not just to prevent the normalization of Black presence in actual historic spaces, but (and this I never see talked about) to keep white people feeling afraid divided from the other, and connected to wealthy white people (who hate them) and "always" in the gaze of the simple black/white morality of "past times" or mostly being "cartoon awful" racists or abolitionists, that's it... when it was SO MUCH WIDER and more complex than that.
You never see true allyship depicted among the poor and disenfranchised among the immigrants, indigenous, and Black and mixed people depicted in media FOR A REASON.
I remember reading about the Delany Sisters when I was girl, Black sisters who lived and worked successful professional fields in Harlem (notably never married!) who lived happily to 104 and 106 respectively.
There were old photos in their biography of their Irish granddad sitting on the porch with a shotgun in his lap, hyper-protective of his Black wife and mixed kids and grandkids.
It was actually not an uncommon a thing that (mostly) Irish women intermarried with Black men in the 1800's...
...And don't get me on the Black and mixed-race towns and communities.
All this to say "diversity" should not be the goal.
....Including the full truth of the past should be. And the full truth includes us all, in a multitude of capacities.
Yall know this has been a hyperfixation for me for decades and there are so many pieces of media about REAL PEOPLE that I dream of snapping into existence that I do genuinely think would help society, racially and culturally away from the sad MAGAT place we are now.
If you like homework, you can look up these names and places to get you started (not just in the U.S. BTW), Colletta Stewart Lai, Malaga Island, Gustav Badin (Sweden and I suspect was a queer man), Longtown Ohio, James Mink, Lucille Hunter (in the Klondike).... I have so many I have collected over the years.
TL;DR The issue isn't the colorblind casting. The issue is not *ALSO* covering the real people in history, of which there are A LOT...and especially where the whites aren't always cartoon racist, insanely evil villains/ or abolitionist helpers and Black people aren't always the slaves trying to get free or downtrodden trying to get civil rights or the first Black person to do something.
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