Having a "token black person" in a movie isn't exactly the massive accomplishment you think it is. 

I didn't claim it was. Usually he is there just to fulfill the demand and nothing more. Filmmakers put him there so they can deflect accusations of excluding minority groups, or when they believe that one token black guy will be just enough to make minorities feel more included.

The truth is that black people are overrepresented in TV series and movies. You can discuss the value of their roles, but in raw numbers they make up more than the 13% they make up of the US population.

You kids don't get it, do you? The point IS to be unbiased. So why ONLY nominate white actors? Look at the primary movies: The Martian, Steve Jobs (like that movie hasn't already been made 5 times already), The Revenant, Mad Max, Carol (who's even heard of that?) and The Hateful Eight even has a few... I can't think of them all off the top of my head but, the point is that plenty of these aren't Oscar material. I don't even know how Revenant made the cut, since its wide release didn't even happen till 2016.

There are several dramas and documentaries, primarily featuring an African American cast, but the Academy CHOSE to ignore them. See? THAT is the problem. They CHOSE not to pick them. Martian gets nominated... but not Concussion, Creed, Beasts of No Nation or Chi-raq...in ANY categories. It's like they INTENTIONALLY left black people out. It's bizarre and comes off a bit segregationist, honestly.

I'm just trying to get you guys to see the other side of this. It's not like this boycott is happening for no reason.

I actually don't think they over-represented in TV/movies at all. It's more like 90-95% white actors and 5-10% everyone else, so that does not line up with demographics at all. Latinos get screwed in particular. Asians barely registers, Indians only show up as taxi drivers. Anyone Arab is a terrorist or involved in a story centering around terrorism. 

To me it's funny that on black series there isn't a single white guy (not even in irrelevant roles) and that is ok but other series need to have black/asian/etc or they are unfair, biased, etc.

They're trying to see which one sticks and then go with it, lol.

I don't think the Academy is overtly racist, but why have 97% of your membership be white males? I mean yeah it's fairly obvious to slant things a certain way, if the academy was 97% black women, probably the films getting nominated would be a little different.

There's nothing wrong with evening out the memebership to be more reflective of the actual movie going audience.

The Academy rules should change in general IMO, first off, movie screeners should be out. You go to watch all the nominated movies at the theater or you can't be a member. In many of these cases we don't even know if the Academy members even watch all the films (they probably don't).

Could be, but we majorly don't mind when they do, but if anyone else do we freak out

Who's "we"? Didn't you say you were like 3/4 black?

We people in general... by the way I love the balck series that came to brazil like fresh prince, my wife and kids, every body hate chris, arnold.... very good comedies