Finally, racism is over now that there’s an all-black version of a classic Jane Austen novel.

The Hallmark Channel is best known for its popular contemporary Christmas-themed fare. But this February, or “Loveuary,” as they are calling it, the network has a different cause for celebration — the debut of a quartet of new films inspired by the creativity and fandom of Regency-era novelist Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility with a mostly black lead cast.

Not sure who’s celebrating it except the sorts of woke white women who attend ‘conversations about race’ dinners.

Racial recasting does not add, it subtracts, and when done with period stories it takes them out of the realm of their time and place, and into the realm of fantasy.

The Hallmark Channel, briefly, resisted the tide of wokeness and with its watered down versions of Christmas romances based on Meg Ryan movies that never happened, it was an insular island of middlebrow cultural stability that had largely vanished since the 1950s. But, much as Disney had to be conquered and corrupted precisely because it represented wholesomeness, Hallmark had to be besieged and forced to surrender. First it was LGBTQ romances and now it’s remaking Sense and Sensibility with fewer members of the ‘bad’ race.

The point has less to do with the specific project than with the need to impose its ideological destruction of the culture on everyone.

Hallmark could and does make plenty of black specific romances. It could even make a historically grounded black romance set in a historical period. But that wouldn’t make a ‘point’ and it’s never about the story, and it’s always about ‘making a point’.

That’s why we’re in the middle of an unprecedented storm of content with more people tuning much of it out than ever before.

The DEI and ESG folks that Hallmark allowed inside the door have done what they always do, alienate the core audience, stir up controversy and ensure that everyone must know that they are the ones in charge.