Forgive me, while I understand the point you are trying to make here. There is something that bothers me. When you start to cast with ethnicity and gender as the primary objective, you might cast someone who was less suited to the role in favour of someone else because they were a minority. I understand this leaves a massive grey area, because as viewers who are no involved in the casting process we can decide from limited information if discrimination in casting took place or not without any real facts.
As far as I am concerned, it's really up to whos artistic vision it is to cast whoever they want for what role. It's their story, not ours. However, I am well aware that white people have been cast significantly higher in leading roles, but I can't change that, but it still my stance that each role should be cast in a way where the best candidate should be chosen who fits the role regardless of ethnicity, and i'm pretty sure many people disagree with me.
That topic is a very complex one to cover, because my belief can be used to cast white actors under a false pretense of trying to dodge the issue altogether. So i dont know the answer, but I find something hypocritical about saying I love Reys character, but i would have preferred a minority to take the leading roles rather than using a white woman to try distract us, or a false pretense to promote diversity with a leading 2nd as support. Maybe if a hispanic woman was chosen to play rey she would not have been portrayed as well, or maybe even better I don't know, but we didn't do the casting.
