The problem is, when we're big-ging up each other (black + black). She always has to inject or try an pen it on us. Like we somehow dictate the ways in which we get involved in stop or get representation. But in either case most of these "latinx", arab peoples (The Native American population is the one hurting here the most in truth). Each of the two have places they can look to for their heritage immediately, which includes all types of stories and heroes to rig from. But for most black Americans this is all we got, unless you somehow found your tribe and connected with your roots. Which most can't do and have other things to worry about.
The issue in all of this is that Gina doesn't speak on the establishment (white people) and seems to always have black people in her mouth. Like we created the conditions, that deal with casting and green-lighting projects or shows. When we were the one's really out there fighting in the past during jim crow, trying to break the conditions down to allow "minorities" to get shit like representation in art and tv...etc
This shit ain't on the black community.
The bold bits of are the parts of your post here that have merit.
Everything else is basically nonsense. Firstly, it's not a matter of roots for American minorities, regardless if they know where their ancestry lies. Black peeps in America may not know exactly where they come from (I would know as the son of African American immigrants born and raised in the UK), but there's a point where this becomes somewhat irrelevant when you're talking about American minorities fighting for representation, in you know, America.
I've been to places like Kenya, Somalia, Nigeria, Jamaica etc. I may not know where my roots are, but it's not particularly important in the grand scheme of things when it comes to this topic. By sheer virtue of the fact that I was born and raised in the UK, I was going to be culturally different anyway. And even if I knew where that heritage was, I know I'd run into similar issues that other children of immigrants (second or third generation etc.) run into. You know, the one that's quite well known where they're having a crisis of identity because they're neither here nor there ultimately. Knowing their roots doesn't help when the homeland looks at them differently for being born in a different culture and experiencing a different life than them. And the country they're born in, usually white majority countries, other them because they're not white. They tend to relate more with other second and third generation immigrants in similar predicaments to them. So using this argument and saying other minorities ain't real "minorities" because they can just back to Arab or Latino or Indian or "insert other country here" homeland is ridiculous. (It's also ignorant because Arabs aren't some monolith, and there are many different Americans from the Indian sub-continents who have cultural roots in different countries which is also the same for East Asians, then you have South East Asians etc.) Not knowing your roots doesn't put you in a worse position than other children of immigrants who are second or third generation in America. And it's mostly these peeps who tend to care about this stuff, being born and raised in white cultures, because first generation don't mostly. It's the generations beyond that are hurting because they're obviously stuck in a culture that doesn't accept them, but also were born away from a culture that was theirs, but wouldn't readily accept them either simply because them being born where they were naturally creates a different outlook. America is their home. Not some place across the world that you think they can just go and get in touch with.
Also, don't make this foolish mistake of thinking black Americans breaking the conditions down helps other minorities. It doesn't. I'm not sure why I'm seeing this sentiment popping up in recent years in our community, but it's bollocks and patting yourself on the back for something that simply isn't true. This is the same kind of rhetoric white feminists use when white women benefit and women of color are left behind. Black Americans breaking down doors has helped black Americans. It's a great thing, but it's not magically helping other minorities by helping the black community. It's helping the black community. People seeing Denzel Washington movies or other movies with black people doesn't get them accustomed and opened up to seeing various other ethnicities on-screen. It makes them comfortable with seeing black people. And unless you can point to prominent black people in Hollywood giving other minorities major roles or helping them get opportunities both in front of and behind the camera en-masse, the whole "it's helping other minorities by what we're doing breaking down doors and they can't see that" is basically bullshit. It's not true in any regard.
For those minorities to benefit, they'd need to be represented on-screen, behind the camera etc. And by doing so, it'll allow them to build a voice, as well as tell their stories in America, and then over time allow them to get people comfortable with their presence on their screens. It's something that takes time, and only happens when they're the ones in front on-screen or behind camera putting people that look like them on TV. And some white executive being okay with black people isn't going to suddenly be cool with some American Indian or American Korean suddenly becoming an action star or something. That's not how it works.
Also, black Americans and latinos basically make up the largest minority groups in the US, both being around 12% and 16% of the population respectively. (May be off a few percent give or take; it's from memory). That's a significant number of people because you're talking 30+ million. There are many other minorities combined who come up to less than 5% of the population combined. Not sure what exactly you think all these other minorities need to be doing with their "voices" when they barely have one.
