Is Hollywood intentionally causing racial divide?

With the recent announcement that Snape in the new Harry Potter series will be played by a black guy. To me this seems intentionally divisive, like they know it will make people upset and are going to do it anyway.

It’s going to cause needless division within the fanbase. And I hope if that guy takes on the role he has very thick skin. Because he’s going to receive a lot of hate. You can’t tell me these producers are so disconnected from the world that they don’t know how things play out when this happens.

They can’t be this oblivious so I’m beginning to think this is all intentionally done to continuously stoke the fire.

Some people will say his ethnicity plays no role in who he is as a character and that’s always been a silly argument to me, especially when the writer has described the character.

I am black and we also don’t like this trend. We don’t need to always see the token black person in everything.