You really don ' t understand the concept of institutionalised racism , do you ? They ' re going out of their way to hire people of nonwhite ethnicities because , if they didn ' t , they ' d almost certainly end up with a cast made up entirely of white peopleand not , as I ' m sure you ' re so keen to assert , because they ' hired the best actors '. Hollywood panders yes , panders to white audiences , thanks to decades of ingrained bias . It ' s run by white people , for white people , and so if you don ' t make a deliberate effort to cast diversely , you just end up with shows full of white people . Which in turn means that most of the aspiring actors getting experience and loaded resumes are white , so it becomes safer and safer to just keep casting those same white people well , unless they ' re women Hollywood ' s institutionalised sexism with regards to older women is welldocumented and so the status quo just keeps on propagating , forever . It ' s not a problem that ' ll ever just go away without people deliberately trying to subvert it , as Star Trek has been doing for the entirety of its existence . So , it ' s not panderingquite the opposite , in fact . It ' s the deliberate subversion of the most widespread sort of pandering there is .