BTW, this is what Neil, Himself has to say about the casting:
“I give zero fucks about people who don’t understand/ haven’t read Sandman whining about a non-binary Desire or that Death isn’t white enough.”
and
"Someone who could speak the truth to Dream, on the one hand, but also be the person you’d want to meet when your life was done on the other. And then we saw Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s (she/her) audition and we knew we had our Death.”
He clearly cares more about character than colour. And it’s his damn character, so he is right (Death of the Author be damned)
emphasis mine