Since my comment keeps getting deleted, I’ll summarize. This argument reminds me of the time someone tried to defend a friend of mine because they saw he had brown skin and someone had made disparaging comments about Mexicans. The problem is my friend is Indian. By chance I AM Mexican but they said nothing to me because I have lighter skin and hair.

point is, the only offensive thing I see is someone comparing POC to the drow, simply because they share a darker (not even the same color, humans aren’t ebony, and our colloquial usage of the word “black” is incorrect as far as how colors work just as much as nobody is actually “white” as in a piece of paper) skin tone. It comes off as very “POC all look alike so we will just associate them with all with each other.” There are VERY REAL issues of racism, but manufacturing non issues only serves to distract and muddy the waters.

Added question, would this even be a discussion if we didn’t incorrectly use the term “black” to describe a human skin tone for people of African origin, since people aren’t actually ebony and just varying shades of brown? After all, that is the point of this article, because I’ve looked at your articles and you don’t actually seem to have a problem with a fictional species being malevolent, meaning this all boils down to skin color and a single tenuously connected trait.