Making White Characters Black Isn't Progress—It's Pandering. And It Insults Black Fans Like Me
Actor and veteran Alex Miller pushes back against changing a character’s race in the name of progress. “I simply object to using the race of an actor as a sign and standard for what constitutes progress. It's an insult to my community—both to the long-fought struggle for representation and to the recent successes on that front… Making a white character Black is not progress. It's pandering.”
“…If changing the race of a character is ok because race isn't relevant as so many have said, then why make the character Black at all? As soon as you do that, you've literally made race important enough to change it.”
