Probably helped that it was Samuel L Jackson, he's just awesome as any character!

Plus, how many people knew the comic books well enough to know the character's original race? Personally I know nothing about the comic books, so had no idea anything about the character had even changed.

Haha I knew someone would post up the comical genius of music parodies. 

Characters should stay the race that they were conceived as.

As for the rest, it should be 100% based on the writer/creator's decision. If someone wants an all-white cast to tell an all-white story, fine. Same with all-black, all-hispanic, all-gay.... all-whatever. Or, if the writer wants a mixed-bag thing because it's good for his story, that's fine too. But it should always be a creative decision, not a political or financial one. No one should be excluded based on the color of their skin alone, or because some board of suits thinks it'll "play well" with a group of angry people on Twitter. It should be a creative decision, and then let the results be what they're going to be. Anything less, imo, is immoral. 

People are sick and tired of this crap.

Not a fan of race swapping characters in either direction, not a fan at all. If you want more representation for minority races in film/tv/games, then don't race swap characters in established IP's, instead create original IP's or new characters within an established IP (only if it makes sense within the lore of that IP, don't pull an Amazon LOTR Rings of Power situation). And if you're adapting something that has black characters and purposefully casting the lightest skinned, heavily mixed race black people you can find in order to make the movie more palatable in China or something, that is also not cool.

That's not a double standard if we look at context. Let's say there's a hypothetical world with 100 superheroes in film, 95 white, 3 hispanic and 2 black. If we go through a new round of making movies there's a much larger impact of whitewashing a single Hispanic or black character than there is of race swapping a single white character. Just because it is the same singular action in each case does not mean they should have the same response. 

But then not enough people will be interested for them to make money. They need to use existing IPs for the guaranteed sales from existing fans!

Meant sarcastically, because a new IP would do fine if it actually had some decent talent behind it. It's just the people usually behind stuff like this are seriously lacking in that regard.

That's actually one issue I have with race swapping: It's a really cheap way to increase inclusivity, and that's cheap with the negative meanings as well. To me, it shows that you don't really want to invest in inclusivity, you just want to get quick bang for your buck. Clearly it seems to be appreciated many, but it also seems somewhat controversial. I suppose that's not the only reason for race swapping, but it's probably one factor, and one I don't really personally appreciate.

The trend of raceswapping, genderswapping and sexuality swapping will not end soon. Especially young people think it's important that entertainment reflects the diversity of western societies. Also outrage is still attention and for media there is not really a thing like bad attention. Case in point Velma gets a second season on Max.