because we allow it...
Yep. Another reason I cut cable and only stream what I choose to watch, and use an adblocker online. Only advertisements I see or hear is the radio and what comes through my weekly snail mail, and it goes straight to the garbage.
I was also wondering, why are they expecting on the one hand that this will change the country in some way, and on the other hand that nobody will notice and complain. After a while, I started to wonder whether the casting changes weren't actually intended to do nothing and change nothing, except generate enough complaints that the companies would feel that they had struck a blow for equity and social justice which would get the woke crowd off their backs.
A lot of people -- not just African-Americans -- felt left out by all the blondes and blondes in 1950s/1960s commercials, so there's sort of a history behind this. Similarly, if you think Whites are being kept out of the music industry now, talk to people who thought Blacks never got the respect and airplay that they deserved back in the mid-20th century. They had to be really good and push hard to get the fame they achieved. The problem today may have to do with the industry being stuck on rap, with nothing much in the way of new music to replace it.
I guess this is a transitional period and it's not clear what's going to replace it, but I suspect part of what's coming is fewer people watching commercial television and fewer people buying what it sells, and that's good.