LightningThief posted... You don't have an argument.
France was not an overarching point of the story.
You are massively confused of the difference between the setting of a story centering around the location, and a story just choosing a location and ultimately the location having no bearing on the historic accuracy of the plot.
More blatant by the fact that you think Black History films teaching about literally black history is a counter argument, further proving you do not understand the difference.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast doesn't compare to a story specifically about a specific group of people and their specific struggles at a specific location that the plot actually centers around.
If France was actually an overarching point of the story, like a story about the history of France, or a story about French suffering, or a story about French history, actually something centered around France you'd actually have a point. Disney's Beauty and the Beast plot is literally not centered around France. The setting could be thrown in Quebec of all places and the overarching plot doesn't change at all.
Are you arguing that somebody shouldnt be able to choose a location for a movie like Beauty and the Beast and then have a racially accurate set of characters for that location? That every story that does not have a location based plot should be set in a racially diverse location/time period?