I literally had no idea that "diversity" in gaming was even an "issue" until leftist white people from the Pacific Northwest started screaming about it.
My regular groups - not counting players that came and went, and girl/boyfriends that dipped in and out.
LA Group #1 - Me (Asian), Mexican-Canadian guy, three black guys, an Indonesian guy, a white guy
LA Group #2 - Me, two Greek guys, a Afghani, a Greek girl, a gay Spaniard, a American white guy
LA Group #3 - Me, two Filipinos guys, a Guamanian/Filipino mutant male (I think), a Japanese guy, a Hawaiaan/Samoan hybrid experiment.
Current Group - Me, a Portuguese guy, three white guys (but one I'm not sure about as he's got a 70's softcore porn female name that sounds Hispanic), and this Italian white guy with Turkish roots.
The only thing we have in common is we all love to play RPG's. In some cases we're diametrically opposed politically and different religions - but at no point was it ever an issue over years and years of gaming.
Precisely zero curation based on race. And yes, I was living in SoCal so there's a lot of people from *everywhere*. I ran all three groups during the week, in the same campaign world, we'd interchange players as needed though all the groups were doing different stuff, and this went on for well over 20 years with some of them.
When I ran games the local LA cons for years - tons of people from all walks of life. Tons of smells there too, not of this Earth. Very diverse.
It wasn't until I moved to Dallas in 95 that I had a predominantly white group. And even then I never noticed until all this discussion about race and gender in the hobby became a thing. What annoys the fuck out of me and my players is that these fuckheads living in their bubble don't see how diverse the hobby already was. They are the one that fetishize people of other ethnicities and are trying to save us (oddly from people that vaguely look like them once you strip away the chromatic hair, clonespeak, and tendency to shriek.)
Anecdotal they might say. I might say "Don't deny my Truth", if it I didn't know how retarded that actually sounded. It's *really* creepy to watch people filled with such self-loathing, seeking for an outlet to spew their self-hate on, and collectively constructing this narrative in which to do it. Unfortunately at our expense.
Like I said they're drunk on their own urine and fumes. It might be too late for them to recover, but that's not my problem.