Like. If a bi or ace person wanted representation for themselves in particular, going along and telling them that they're asking for too much, they should be glad with gay representation, is disrespectful.
No, such a demand wouldn't be unreasonable. But you know what would be unreasonable? If they specifically demanded representation of American, or of French, or of British bi- or asexuals.
That is the analogy here.
Again, in your whole post, you speak of "black people", and yet, once again, what you mean is Afro-Americans.
And that's just such an unbelievable Americanocentrism. Apparently, the issues with race in the USA are so paramount, so important because they are
American issues, that even people thousands of miles away from the USA have to bow to them, and have to code their black characters as Afro-Americans. And of course, the issue with black representation is solely one of Afro-American representation, because only American issues matter. Are you even listening to yourself?
Once again,
SV is not just the friggen USA. Fivemarks is US-American, of course, but he spoke about "black people" in general, and so do you. This of course makes the issue far weightier, because exclusion of an entire race is indeed something bad - but just black people, or
any demographic, of a
very specific country not appearing, or members of that demographic not behaving like the members of that demographic of that very specific country, those are not valid complaints. It would be a valid complaint about the works made in that country, but again, you and Fivemarks have written pretty universally,
as if SV were only the USA. As it is - this is like complaining about the lack of specifically Brits of Indian descant in American works.
The irony here is so thick you can cut it with a knife: You complain so much, and not without justification, that people always only write about their own group of people, that they can't see beyond their own subgroup, and yet here you are, viewing everything through the lense of specifically the US-American issues with racism.
Here's the thing: The definitional difference between "white person" and "black person" is in fact just the skin. Anything else is culture and, yes, personal experience - but those things do in fact differ wildly among black people. And there is no reason why it should specifically be Afro-Americans who are to be the norm for black characters.
SV is not the USA.
You know what's disgusting? Your Americanocentrism.
/E: Like, if the thread had been worded as lack of Afro-American representation in US-American works, then I would certainly have agreed. But it just isn't. And claiming to speak for black representation, period, but then specifically demanding Afro-American representation, apparently world wide, that's just... gah.