There's Literally Nothing Wrong With Having A Black Watson (Nor Holmes For That Matter) If That's What The Producers Want To Do

all true , you wont convince anyone not already agreeing with you though

None of the "But what if they did a white Malcolm X?" / "us whites are being persecuted boo hoo" guys will say "ooh you're right"

The upside is that its only those guys affected as they cant watch any movie or TV with blacks or women in the lead role .
... Except Alien because they all agree that in that case "it was done right"

Yeah, I think it is really hard to write an origin story for a brand new character. Most of all because the writers have also to include all that woke shit... 🙄

Practically every myth and legend in history had been rewritten and had their main characters replaced with one of a different tribe, people or race long before the printing press was even invented.

King Arthur is a great example. Might have been an Cumbrian Celt. Might have been a Briton of Strathclyde. Might have been a Gaulish Roman. But he was certainly not Anglish or a Saxon. And yet the story preferred by the English, and written by Frenchmen incidentally, installs him as the King of the Anglo Saxon Britons. In other words they invented a King Arthur and gave him the "history" of the Arthur belonging to the people who had been Britons before and after Roman occupation but before any Angles or Saxons were around to be the King of.

Do you think Moses was the first to be washed down the river in a basket, bring plagues on his enemies and part seas?

Dear fuckw-t.
Don't be so fucking stupid. Of course an African school could have non nonwhite kids playing a white person from fiction. That's not race swapping for political reasons. What is wrong is when Holywood takes a white character and puts a nonwhite actor in place just for the sake of it. It's not whiteys fault that nonwhites haven't got many fictional or factual characters worth making a film about. If they have then make the film. I'm sure plenty of nonwhites would go.
Asshole

I mean, we already had a long-running tv show that made Watson an Asian chick. (Shrugs)

There's literally nothing wrong with refusing to ever watch another movie or show with a gay race swap in it and shittalking it online either.
Such a shame certain cultures are so lacking in content they need to appropriate it from others.

Significant/iconic cultural, historical and religious characters should not be race-swapped or gender-swapped AND their portrayals should remain faithful to the original source material.

The producers of these shows need to avoid alienating the existing fanbase instead of focusing on their target audience. A lot of media executives mistakenly believed that social media posts reflect the modern audience instead of focusing on paying customers.

I am fan of Sherlock Holmes and I have zero interest in seeing this bastardization of an iconic character who has become a symbol of a great nation. Dr. John Watson is British and he is white. He is more than a character and he will never die. Chestnut isn't even British!

A lot of media companies have been purchased by corporate conglomerates that don't care if these shows are profitable or meaningful. A majority of Disney's profits come from their parks so their movies don't have to be profitable in the short-term. Amazon makes money from so many other ventures that their tv/movie division does not need to focus on profitability or quality. These companies can focus on meeting the DEI checklist while churning out crappy shows and movies. I contend that Disney is damaging their brand by churning out crappy DEI movies and this will hurt their parks.

Nobody cares about the small stages so the schools can do their crazy casting in Podunk Tanzania or North Dakota. Hollywood is making content for millions of viewers so they have an obligation to be respectful of the source material.

Another poster noted that Chestnut starred as Dr. Rosewood for two seasons in a show called Rosewood and it was also about a doctor who investigated medical mysteries.

Significant/iconic cultural, historical and religious characters should not be race-swapped or gender-swapped AND their portrayals should remain faithful to the original source material.

It's their show, so they have a right to do whatever they want, no matter how stupid it is. Dr. John Watson has been established in literature, plays, films, and television series since the 1880s as a white man. There's no good reason to fuck with the character now. Be creative. Write something new about a black character.