Story highlights Actors are sometimes cast in roles meant for other races

Writer argues it doesn't address Hollywood's race problem

(CNN) Color blind casting is a double edged sword.

The Tony Award-winning hip hop musical "Hamilton" has been hailed for casting actors of color to play Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. Broadway's smash-hit show celebrates diversity in a form previously unseen on the Great White Way.

But colorblind casting doesn't always go over so well -- the production caught flack in March when it put out a call for "nonwhite" actors to audition.

And there was a huge uproar when it was announced that white actor Joseph Fiennes was cast to play black superstar Michael Jackson in the British TV comedy "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon," about a fabled road trip taken by Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando.