It's not just about who is 'black'. It's also about who is an unambiguously white male, and who isn't.

Non white: Neo, Morpheus, Tank, Dozer, The Oracle

White: Trinity, Mouse, Cypher, Agent Smith, Agent Brown, Agent Jones

Trinity is a woman.

Mouse is small, weak ineffective, undesirable little perv. He is also the first to die.

Cypher is a traitor, and another undesirable perv.

The Agents are all the bad guys.

Trinity is the only white person who is a hero. The rest are either weak and useless, traitors, or the enemy.

Keanu being a white-passing hapa visually muddies it, but imagine him as Will Smith and you'd have to be blind not to see that the movie ends with only black men and a white woman alive, ready to take on the fake world run by the white agents.

It's not just about who is 'black'. It's also about who is an unambiguously white male, and who isn't.

Non white: Neo, Morpheus, Tank, Dozer, The Oracle

White: Trinity, Mouse, Cypher, Agent Smith, Agent Brown, Agent Jones

Trinity is a woman.

Mouse is small, weak ineffective, undesirable little perv. He is also the first to die.

Cypher is a traitor, and another undesirable perv.

The Agents are all the bad guys.

Trinity is the only white person who is a hero. The rest are either weak and useless, traitors, or the enemy.

Keanu being a white-passing hapa visually muddies it, but imagine him as Will Smith and you'd have to be blind not to see that the movie ends with only black men and a white woman alive, ready to take on the fake world run by the white agents.

It's not just about who is 'black'. It's also about who is an unambiguously white male, and who isn't.

Non white: Neo, Morpheus, Tank, Dozer, The Oracle

White: Trinity, Mouse, Cypher, Agent Smith, Agent Brown, Agent Jones

Trinity is a woman.

Mouse is small, weak ineffective, undesirable little perv. He is also the first to die.

Cypher is a traitor, and another undesirable perv.

The Agents are all the bad guys.

Trinity is the only white person who is a hero. The rest are either weak and useless, traitors, or the enemy.

Keanu being a white-passing hapa visually muddies it, but imagine him as Will Smith and you'd have to be blind not to see that the movie ends with only black men and a white woman alive, ready to take on the fake world run by the white agents.