On the topic of Annie, you have to understand there are going to be some people that think there are suspect intentions behind re-branding the two loveable "good" main characters as black, while leaving the "Evil" gold digging shrew of a wife a white woman. Normally it wouldn't be an issue. In this day and age they could have gotten less controversy by making the "Wife" a black MAN. But, the alteration of two of the characters in such a way brings race to the conversation, especially since they are both being cast as African Americans. I think if the little girl had been Asian, again, people are going to make less of an issue. The act of re-casting the positive role models in the story as black people while casting the most negative character in the story as a white person could in fact be construed as an act of racism in itself. I have no personal opinion on this, just my analysis. I could give a rats ass what stupid people do with their movie money.
The issue has less to do with the issue and more to do with how people are discussing the issue. You just raised a variety of great points in a succinct, well-written, not inflammatory way. If your comment was a youtube comment it would go something like, "WHO DA FUK CARE IF SHE BLACK? OR WHITE. RASIST! WTFWTFWTFWTF NOT A BIG DEAL. whore movie pplz" Also, for entertainment, YouTube Comment Reconstruction
I definitely understand that it does bring race into the conversation. We are far from a post racial society as the comments on the video clearly show. I guess it just makes me sad that people are so unwilling to move outside of their assigned roles too. The same thing happened in comics last year when a bunch of people who never even go to a comic book shop suddenly got upset that Miles Morales was a new Spiderman. Ugh people right?