He continued, “I was quite clear a year ago, when we announced our first open casting, that we would be following Disney’s company policy on nondiscrimination: We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. As strong as Leah is, as much as we have discussed the potential for this kind of reaction and the intense pressure this role will bring, the negative comments she has received online are out of line. Whatever else you take from this post, we should be able to agree that bullying and harassing a child online is inexcusably wrong. “If you have a problem with this casting, however, take it up with me,” Riordan said in his blog. Thankfully, Riordan himself took his blog and called out this harassment for what it is: racism. When the casting for Annabeth Chase on the Disney+ adaptation of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson novels was announced and I saw that the actress was a Black girl, we all knew that racist comments would follow.
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