Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey film officially has its Huntress, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and its Black Canary, played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell. Cue the celebration! (…And the racist trolls, unfortunately.)

Last week, we got to see the fantastic casting shortlist for my next favorite DCEU movie, Birds of Prey. And while word was that we’d have to wait about two weeks to get any official word, the comic book movie gods saw fit to bless us starving and often beleaguered DCEU fans by announcing the official casting for Huntress and Black Canary.

While we wait on who gets to play The Question and which likely unknown and lucky child actress will nab the role of Cassandra Cain, we now have the official word that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (my personal favorite out of the frontrunners) will be playing the hard hitting, hard edged mafia princess Helena Bertinelli/Huntress, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell will be playing the iconic supreme badass Dinah Lance/Black Canary.

And while my own personal frontrunner was Gugu Mbatha-Raw for this role, please believe that I am 110% hyped and excited to see Jurnee Smollett-Bell — who I’ve been a fan of since her Friday Night Lights days — inhabit the role and do an amazing job at it.

But you know who isn’t so excited about it?

Racists.

And before you say, “I’m not racist, I just want a comics accurate actress in the role!”

I want you to consider this:

You’re a racist.

Because here are the things which are more or less fundamental to Black Canary’s character:

You know how many of those fundamental character traits have to do with her being white? Exactly none of them.

I’ve seen arguments (poorly argued ones) pointing out that it’s okay to be upset at the racebending because people would be upset if canonically black or brown superheroes (the very, very few that we have) were suddenly cast as white in a screen adaptation. The depth of stupidity of this argument is nearly beyond me, but suffice to say that equality is not equity.

To change a character like Black Panther, Cyborg, Black Lightning or Cloak to be white would present a fundamental change to who that character is in a way that changing Black Canary’s does not. It would also put even more white heroes in comics universe — either of them, really — that’s already crowded with white heroes.

And while I have to admit to being disappointed that a woman of color won’t be playing Helena/Huntress, it’s interesting (it’s actually not interesting, but instead is better described as rage inducing) to see that none of the comicsgate trolls up in arms about Black Canary’s casting have anything to say about the very white Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing a character who is currently canonically darker skinned in the comics.

I wish I could say that I was surprised, but after seeing Anna Diop — who is about to be the best part of Titans, mark my words y’all — bullied off of social media because the show had the audacity to cast a black woman rather than a real life orange alien as Starfire, nothing much really surprises me.

It’s unfortunate and infuriating that these Richard C. Meyer YouTube subscribers are already dropping vile and hateful comments on Jurnee’s Instagram and all across Twitter, but for the rest of us fans of DC comics and the upcoming film, we have nothing but excitement for what Cathy Yan, Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell.

In fact, I’m super excited not just for this casting choice, but for what it represents for the DCEU and the DC properties. This will be third big screen character who went from being white in the comics to a person of color in the movies.

First we had Will Smith playing the canonically white, brown-haired Deadshot in Suicide Squad; then we’ll get to see Jason Momoa as Aquaman this December, a character who — in the comics — is one of what seems like a hundred superheroes with blonde hair and blue eyes. And in February of 2020, we’ll get to see Jurnee Smollett-Bell rock it as the badass Black Canary in Birds of Prey.

I’m sure it’s going to be nothing short of amazing and you better believe that I’ll be there opening day — and likely every day after that for the next two weeks or so.

Long live Cathy Yan, Margot Robbie and the DCEU. And long live diverse casting choices!