I picked up Paramount+ to watch the Masters since it was free for a week if you tried it out, and while scrolling I saw a series called A Gentleman in Moscow. Curious about it I spooled it up but turned it off 90 seconds when "Miska" shows up. Here is how they cast as Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich, in Revolutionary Russia in 1917.
I turned it off. This sort of casting is not only insulting to the viewer, it is patronizing to blacks, who apparently can only get jobs if the casting manager purposely puts them into the place a white person should be, putting them completely out of place, out of time.
I was a little more tolerant of Napoleon (a boring movie that couldn't decide if it wanted to be a war epic or a love story). I vaguely knew Napoleon had a black general floating around, but of course in the movie they put him in the background of every single scene they could. And of course the movie also presented blacks with powdered wigs dancing around the fringes of social scenes and the like.
This woke BS is one reason don't watch many modern shows.