I remember getting into an argument on some website post/article on notable american Sci-Fi writers, in it... the author mentioned Octavia E. Butler as a black writer. I simply asked why her skin colour was of any importance, in the comments, .....which led to some pretty interesting back and forth.

As a non-white person and some who is not from US(or Canada or Europe), it is incredibly hard for me to care or notice things related to race, ethnicity or whatever.... For example, in the Altered Carbon series, the main character is called Takeshi Kovacs, that sounds like a Japanese & Dutch name, no? And that's it, did not notice or cared any further.

However, the author of that article typed about representation and the history towards dark skinned people in the US(or North America) etc. Now, I at least understand that even if this is not an important thing for me, it is important to other people.