Can someone explain to me the need to be represented?

Sorry, I'm not cherry picking or ignoring the rest of your post, but this right here - This is the utter and blatant truth of it all, I'm thinking. I wouldn't even say it's necessarily racism or malicious in intent, but it is definitely caused by the incredibly wealthy few who are afraid of change and trying new things. However, because those wealthy few generally are white people, the entire white race gets pinned for it and scrutinized for something that is... well, by and large outside of their control.

That said, however, I do wish we as Americans in general focused on... more important things. Like the elections, our tanking economy, a new energy source, things like that. These are important matters, yes, but we definitely have more pressing things that will impact ALL of us heavily within the next 10 years alone if we don't do something about it. It's just tiring hearing about all of this social justice and tumblrina crap day in and day out (It's literally impossible to actually tune it out or block all of it outside of not going on the internet at all) when honestly.... people need to get thicker skins and quit going out their way to be angry about something.

Fair enough. I've definitely experienced the same "white guilt trip". Some idiot hung a noose on a statue my Freshman year of college. The whole thing got blown out of proportion and received a lot of media attention as a hate crime. The statue in question was of a white man and was only mildly racist for his time. Suddenly the entire campus had a "culture of discrimination" and the black student union issued a serious of ludicrous demands including building a building for a "black safe zone". I was basically crucified for pointing out that blacks were actually over represented on campus proportional to the state population and that no other minority group was using media attention to demand multi-million dollar construction projects. I follow the numbers. Sometimes a group of people get a really fucking short end of the stick.

I like to think I'm a rational, enlightened person that doesn't discriminate (as much as humanly possible) and thus not part of the problem. It's really not about malicious intent. I really doubt many people actually realize and intend to be racist or discriminate.

You're preaching the choir, but the reality is for some of these groups the discrimination is just as important! The Mexican immigrant that gets turned down for a job could have been the doctor who cured cancer. The Chinese immigrant that has to get higher grades to get into college than his white neighbor might have solved our energy crisis. Fighting discrimination in an effective way produces a merit based society which better enables us to fight all those problems and future ones we can't even thought of yet! I feel like the media attention which focuses on and enhances false or minor issues in order to sensationalize news into entertainment is the real culprit. It obscures the genuine problems in a sea of others then one is inevitably proved fallacious and the entire house of cards falls. Every canvas is painted with the same brush. People just keep watching the "news" and clicking the bait which pays the bills so the cycle continues to grow.