re: Hollywood replacing white people in true stories with black actors

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A lot of the shows just cast minorities in historical fiction (Bridgerton) and ignore race all together and that’s mostly fine.

Dumb things for me are Anne Boleyn or Vikings being black.

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I have no problem with fictional works if race is completely ignored. Bridgerton, for instance, I had heard of the show, but I had never heard a mutter about the race of the actors playing characters, and it really wasn't addressed in the show. Does it historically make sense? Not especially, but it really seemed as if they just cast everyone completely disregarding race, in almost all cases. If someone would have cast one of the daughters as a black girl, it would have taken away from the show, thus they are all white like the parents.

The little mermaid, snow white, Disney did that solely for diversity, especially in the case of Snow White, she was snow white because of the color of her skin, so it makes 0 sense. I won't watch those.

Historical stories should follow race, and honestly if it went both ways, it would still bother me, it takes away from the film.