More White men have played Othello than Black; but through most of that history, nobody cared.
True! And I have no problem with that. They call it "acting" after all. But others have made a BIG deal out of straight actors playing gay characters, White actors playing non White characters, etc etc. Yet I hear nothing when a Black character appears in a story that takes place in medieval England or Black Vikings or a Black actor playing Achilles in a version of the Iliad I saw. One set of rules for everybody. That's only fair.