I don't know if you've read Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series of novels, but this past week black actor Idris Elba was cast in a film of the first novel as the main character, Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger. In the novels, Roland was described as a tall, thin white man with cold, blue eyes. Another character in the novels, a black woman named Detta/Odetta (she has a split personality) taunts him at one point by telling him he has a little white candle dick. Anyway, the producer of the upcoming film had this to say about the whole thing:

"I'm unbelievably proud of it as a collaborator on this enterprise and because I think that he's a great actor and I couldn't be more thrilled that he is likely to play a part... I understand that people who are thoughtful about the storytelling and the racial politics of the storytelling might want to understand how that informs that storytelling, and I respect that and I hear that, and those things are not things we didn't think about or don't think about. The racist assholes should go fuck themselves."