We have had a similar phenomena in the UK, exemplified by the race storm on twitter recently involving BBC presenter Nihal Arthanayake.
What Nihal fails to appreciate is not everywhere in the UK is London, which is 53% white. He's currently working in the north of England which is around 90% white. Nonetheless, the BBC have a racial diversity target in that region of 20%. Such targets are impossible to achieve without discriminating against people on the basis of their skin colour. or persuading people to move from London.
As far as TV presence goes, BAME people are over-represented in UK television.
I could go either way on the arguments here. I think people should feel represented in society. I think it's a problem in the UK that so few Eastern European people are on TV, when they make up a similar proportion of the UK population as black people. I cannot think of one outside of Strictly Come Dancing.
On the other hand, if people are getting jobs on the basis of skin colour, that's discrimination.