Comm 300: minorities in the movies

I don't know about the rest of you, but as I have been learning about this course I have been trying to see the minorities that are in the television that I watch. Shockingly, enough, or perhaps not that shocking at all, I don't see very many. And then, if there is a black man, or an Asian man, or a Latino man, they are never the main character. And if they do have a crucial role in the movie/t.v. show they are the bad guy. Of course, this knowledge is daunting when you think about the groups that are trying to correct it. The amount of invisibility they have to surmount is almost incomprehensible. I really don't think they will be able to overcome it... it is far too big, and has been around for far too long.