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That's a good example. I was dubious when they switched Nick Furey (Irish-heritage surname) to being a black guy, but I could understand that they wanted to cast Samuel L. Jackson and it worked as a casting decision, he has made the role his own.
Marvel also has a history of retcons, multiple dimensions, parallel universes, and variants of the same characters. So there is indeed a world out there in the MCU where Furey is white, is black, is a woman, etc. and that means there is in-canon rationale for such a switch. I was the same for making Heimdall black, but two seconds later I went "It's Idris Elba, he'll be great" and I don't mind that switch, either.
But imagine if Furey had been black all along. Are you going to tell me that the same people would be accepting if he was switched to be a white guy? Even on the grounds "We wanted to cast Joe Bigname in the part"?
The really stupid race swapping was Abrams' reboot Star Trek where they made Khan Noonien Singh a white guy because mumblemumbleIslamophobiamumblemumble. Then they had to do a fix-it in the comic book versions where they explained how original South Asian Khan (played by Spanish-Mexican Ricardo Montalban) was now a white guy because of, uh, plastic surgery. Yeah, that's why! Cumberbatch is a reasonable actor but he was totally wrong for the part. He would have been better as the cover story rogue Starfleet operative John Harrison, and get a proper Desi actor for the role (or heck, anyone of the vague background - Persian, Arabic, you name it).
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