re: 'The Little Mermaid' Official Trailer | Disney

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I'm not familiar with the show that the image is from, but would agree I don't understand why they would cast a non-white person in this role (is this a Hamilton type situation where the story isn't really about the story and casting non-white actors is making a broader point?).

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BBC show, and no...it's not like Hamilton.

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The new excuse here is "blind casting" as the reason for these types of casting. Essentially suggesting race plays no part on casting and it's always "best person for the job," etc. Which begs two questions. First, if this is the case why the race swaps in cartoons? Second, have white people forgotten how to act, because it sure LOOKS like a ton of traditionally white roles have been cast with nonwhite actors and none on the reverse under this new system.

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I'm not losing sleep over it given that we have decades upon decades of movies where non-white characters were cast by white actors.

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So pay back? Yeah...I'm not down with that. As I said earlier, my take is to ALWAYS cast to the source, be it fiction or nonfiction. So I think it was wrong to to it when it was whitewashing and wrong to do it now that it's black/brownwashing. Pointing to the fact that it happened one way as an excuse to keep doing it in reverse is why we can;t have nice things.