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The BBC prides itself on the historical accuracies of its dramas, including Doctor Who, so changing him to be a woman or black person would throw massive a spanner in the works.
It is important that the Doctor is a white male so he can quickly assume a mantel of authority in any given time period. Change that and historical accuracy would now be out of the window unless every period episode is a two-parter, the first in which the Doctor has to overcome the social and political framework of patriarchal/racial oppression of the era before getting to the monster of the week in the second.
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