And aren't the sum of the character or her appearances.
There's no race-bending going on here. Death does not have a race. She isn't a human being. You can't race-bend an entity that has no race to speak of.Make new characters or actually promote the ones that already exist instead of constantly race bending.
You don't have grounds for protesting that she won't have that look.Most people who grew up reading sandman have a view of a specific iconic look for death that was heavily inspired by Cinamon Hadley as being her base. Now maybe Kirby just knocks the performance out of the water or they heavily diverge from the series like Lucifer who knows. Just saying wanting an iconic look doesn't equal being racist.
That is where it gets racist.