You’ve missed the point. The character’s name directly references her skin colour.
The little mermaid was actually medium sized!
Sleeping beauty was sometimes awake!
The red riding hood was never worn on horseback!
Film at 11!
(Do you get it?)
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But WHICH author, though? /wink
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In addition to all the excellent responses to your post, I’d like to add a real-life example.
When a group of us (from the U.S.) were visiting a small village in Sri Lanka, a very shy girl was brought to meet us. It was explained that she was so light skinned as a baby that she was named “White Lady” so they wanted to bring her to meet a real ‘white lady’.
Skin tone is relative, after all.
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Oh we know! The European dudely ones!
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Well, not the one who gave Snow White a sister named Rose Red. We need all names to be literal, after all, and yet humans don’t even come in that color.
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That could work, if the rest of the cast has darker skin.
But I think that approach would create a lot more problems!
Or… and here is a crazy idea, I know… we should cast the best actor for the role, regardless of skin color… 
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None of these are the character’s name.
Sure.
Black Panther, starring Jet Li, coming to a theatre near you soon.
Way to ignore the very LONG history of systemic racism in film and TV… Where it was fucking COMMON PLACE for white actors to dress up in Black or yellow face rather than give the role to a non-white actor…
Again - there is NO reason for the role to be confined to a white actor, where as the history of racism means that NOT having a white actor take a POC role is a very different issue.
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Yeah? What is Little Red Riding Hood’s name? And since that’s what we all call her anyway, why does the difference matter, except as an excuse to ignore the obvious point?
I notice you never commented on Rose Red, either…
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I’d agree with you for 99.9% of roles.
I disagree for this one. (And Black Panther, obvs).
No-one knows what the name of the girl in Little Red Riding Hood is. But unless she was born in the hood, it’s probably not that.
I didn’t comment on Rose Red because I don’t know anything about it.
What do you mean by that, exactly?
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Red Rose was linked when mentioned above, and since it clearly shows the name Snow White has never had to be about skin color – as PsiPhiGirl even made explicit! – you’d think you might have looked into it instead of doubling down on that claim.
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The item of clothing from which the name of the story is taken.
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Okay… none the less, the entire point is that there is no reason to restrict the race actor in the film. None.
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I didn’t bother following the link.
Having skimmed it, it seems to be a completely different story. Only one dwarf, no step mother, no apple, and a bear. So, irrelevant.
It’s almost like these stories have a history of changing over the centuries… 
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What problems? And for whom?
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