@michuk I'm kinda feeling like that most of the people here had been attacking a straw man, because your initial post gave us the vague impression that your concern was the unbalanced number of white v.s. colored GMs. However, your recent posts just revealed that actually you are more frustrated with your real life chess community activities.
These are two distinct problems that we are going to discuss. Which one would you prefer to talk about first?
Regarding the overwhelming dominance of white GMs. First this is just an observation, not statistically correct though. If you have been following chess news, you would certainly recall how fast India are growing in terms of both high level and popular chess after Vishy's success. The top young players of US are mostly Asian or Indian descendants. Iran is also becoming more and more important in the chess community. If you check the top 100 players by FIDE rating, roughly 1/3 of them are colored... Does that mean that the white people are dominating the sport? Well if you check the men's 100 metre dash in the Olympics maybe in the final round you don't even see 1 white guy. If you are in the Table tennis world cup there are 9 Chinese in the top 8 - of course I'm just using extreme examples to demonstrate my point: it's rather a phenomenon related with tradition and investment. I have read a couple years ago that in Moscow, most elementary schools have chess as an obligatory discipline. In the US and many European countries chess camps are very popular kids activities during the summer holidays. And as many of us have already pointed out, chess is a fair game, you don't know the color of the person (or a dog or a bot, who knows) on the other side of the board, the RATING is simply the accumulated results of your performance in all competitions - statistics doesn't lie, nor bias. So let's just keep the old tradition: may the best win.
About real life struggles. I do feel some of your pain and frustration, but as you said, you are not here for sympathy or validation. Racism is still systematic in many countries. On this aspect, I do agree with Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington. Their point, however, wasn't so welcomed by their own black community because they are famous in saying that "the best way to fight racism is to not to mention it. There are no white actors, or black actors. Just actors." They don't start victimizing themselves, and that's probably a big part why they are the most successful ones in their own field.
Wish the best of luck to your career.
