Oscars too white?

The Economist did a recent study of the Oscar nominations over its 80+ year history.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/01/film-and-race

According to it,

Oscar nominations have not dramatically under-represented black actors. Instead, they have greatly over-represented white ones. Blacks are 12.6% of the American population, and 10% of Oscar nominations since 2000 have gone to black actors. But just 3% of nominations have gone to their Hispanic peers (16% of the population), 1% to those with Asian backgrounds, and 2% to those of other heritage.

The truth is that acting nominations and Oscar wins for black actors have not benefited or opened up the field to Asian or Hispanics.  The amorphous "people of color" umbrella may lead Hispanics and Asians to believe that a win for a person of color is a win for Hispanics or Asians, respectively, but the facts say otherwise.

Until this year I never heard any blacks notice that they got the giant's share of nominations for minorities, e.g., 90%.

Asians or Hispanics, unlike black actors, are almost never on the movie marquee, as opposed to the huge number of black movie superstars (Jamie, Denzel, ).

If you look at a recent audience at the Oscar ceremony, at least 25% are blacks while there are probably 1% Asians and 3% Hispanics in a state, California, where Asians make up, as I recall 16% of the population, Hispanics even more, and blacks about 5%-6%.

Maybe black actors need to star in fewer mainstream box-office super hits and more dramas.  With Asians and Hispanics, they first need to be cast in vastly more roles.  The problems of blacks and Asians and Hispanics in the film industry are vastly different.

See also
http://www.allenbwest.com/2016/01/this-chart-destroys-oscarsowhite-premise/