Why the heck to black people expect non-black people to just GIVE them representation? Just take your ass out there and represent yourself. You want movies made of black people? Go out and make them. Hone your skills so you get nominated for the awards you seem to desperately want. You want more black people in paintings? Go out and paint your own paintings. Don't wait for others to represent you cause you think you deserve it. Do it yourself.
If it's an American film, you expect to see every section of American culture represented.It doesn't mean a main character HAS TO BE Black, representation means that there should at least be ONE character that has a speaking role that has their own character traits (regardless of how small their character part is) who is Black or Italian or Asian or of the Islamic faith or whatever culture is prominent in the city/town that the film is being based in.In Ireland, our population is becoming more mixed with cultural differences but Caucasian is the dominant in most towns/villages. In the city, depending on which part of the city you are in, there will be a lot more diversity. So if a film maker or script writer is making a film set in Dublin city centre, then there should be a bit of diversity in the background characters AT LEAST. Most of our shops in the city centre have Polish, Indian, Chinese, British... let's just say, there are a lot of different ethnicities and nationalities working in Dublin. So, when it comes to films - they should be represented. NOW, if they were setting a film in the country like Wicklow or Wexford or wherever... you'd have a lot less diversity because most people from small towns in those regions have been born, reared, and never left the area they are in. Take my family for example. My mother is the only one in over 5 generations that moved away from Ireland for a section of time. Everyone who lives around my mother are living in their grandparents' house, and will stay there until their children taken the house and so on and so forth. In Japan, their films have mainly Japanese in them. Why? Because Japan's population is not as mixed as America's population is. America is a very bizarre place in regards to how mixed your population is. In most European countries, we have OTHER Europeans living here. So our films will involve mainly European people - most of whom are Caucasian. If anyone looked at the film Michael Collins, for example, they would not see many other ethnicities because we aren't as culturally diverse. It's not our fault, it just seems to go that way.If those of other cultures/nationalities/ethnicities want to be represented in films set in countries where they are a very small minority, then yes they may have to do it themselves. BUT in a culturally diverse country like America, they should be represented depending on the setting - which more than likely will have a diverse population, so casting other nationalities/ethnicities/cultures makes sense.
TL;DR - Good Representation does not mean you have to represent everyone, it means that depending on the place the movie/story is set then the representation should be accurate to the real population.People of different cultures shouldn't have to make their own films, they should be involved when involvement makes sense setting wise or historical accuracy wise. ~ Tartarus (I hope I did not offend)