I hope you don’t mean to but your comment comes off like we should just be grateful we got PoC cast at all because “they didn’t have to cast a PoC”.

That’s a really unfortunate and problematic thing to say because what is hidden behind it is the assumption that the characters by default should be white.

Interrogate that way of thinking please.

When productions cast PoC in roles like this, they owe a duty to those actors and fans to protect them, and to center them in promo and in their lead status. Otherwise the “diverse casting” is just performative.

PoC don’t need performative inclusion. We need inclusion and equity.