Even I felt that recasting existing super heroes as black was going too far in trying to be "PC".
I thought this when I first saw the new [modern] Justice League series arising, and Green Lantern was now black. Growing up with the white Hal Jordan on the old Superfriends (which already had all new characters Black Vulcan and Cyborg in addition to Amerindian, Asian and Latino heroes added later on), I felt this just way overdid it to me. (As was said, you could always keep adding new heroes, and Cyborg continued into the new JLA universe as a common character).
But then I find it's not the same character, there are many "Green Lanterns", and Hal Jordan was only one of them, so the new character is a different one.
So likewise, I was shocked again about this news, but then not you're saying it's basically the same thing; another character taking on the role.
Though killing off Peter Parker and having someone else take over I still feel is making it "jump the shark".
Looks like the Marvel universe may end up having to have its own "Infinite Crisis".
