Representation for representation’s sake has a potential of causing harm to the token Black actress cast and does little to dismantle the unspoken French social hierarchy, which is as taboo to discuss as the racial demographics that are masked to obscure it.
Tourists arrive expecting Paris to look like a classic Yves Saint Laurent perfume ad, where whiteness is the expectation and Blackness is essentially nonexistent.
When asking for more Black women on a French show, we should be judicious about what we are asking for and who we are asking on behalf of, lest we be complicit in painting Black people onto a milieu that is full of the unseen dangers.