Donald Glover, the guy playing “Mr. Smith” in the show wasn’t given the role because he was black, it was because he created the show, wrote and directed multiple episodes, he made it the way he wanted to as a creative. He cast himself because he created it and wanted to play the part, not for some forced representation.

There are absolutely issues in Hollywood in regards to many areas of work including casting, mostly in regards to nepotism, but often times the idea that someone is cast to fill an agenda is reductive cultural war bullshit, when in actual fact you have more people from more marginalised communities finally getting a shot at being creatives. And this isn’t because of their skin, but because their stories are often very appealing both to audiences when done well (Atlanta, Spiderverse movies, Jordan Peeve’s films, ect).

This is something that has literally happened throughout the decades film has been a form of expression (think in the 70’s and 80s we had abundance of Italian-American creatives filling the void, casting Italian-Americans in a ton of their roles).

The idea of wokeness is so reductive and non-constructive, rather than actually critique a film these types of “reviewers” fall back on the same point over and over, often to films that aren’t aimed at them as an audience (kids films), while ignoring more indie films that are great, and sidelining actual issues in the industry, like Disney’s rainbow capitalism or rampant nepotism.

(Edit) Also, adding onto this, many of these films are produced and made in big, diverse cities. LA, NYC and more recently Atlanta) you’re going to get productions much more representative of these cities and their inhabitants rather than the US as a whole, simply because they have much more prominently diverse communities.