"We all dream in gold."

Those five words graced large screens on the red carpet, welcoming stars to the Dolby Theatre for the 88th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night. Those five words were more than fuzzy, warm feelings typical of Hollywood's most magical night, they were a rallying cry for all in the film world to stand together and fight for a diverse community with one dream.

Chris Rock blatantly stated during his opening monologue, "Hollywood is racist." For the second year in a row, no black actors were nominated in the acting categories and no black films were nominated for Best Picture, resulting in an Oscar boycott by big names like Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, but that's old news.

The new news is the Oscars themselves and what is being done to cure Hollywood of its racism. According to Cheryl Boone Isaacs, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (and also, ironically, a black woman), the conversation of diversity in the Academy has been an ongoing one and it's one that the Academy is proactively working to fix. Hopefully, this means that the 89th Academy Awards will not lack the diversity demanded by filmmakers and actors.

Unfortunately, this debate has blinded people to a broader issue concerning the Academy Awards and cinema in general. Diversity does not simply mean the greater inclusion of blacks in a white population. Diversity means an inclusion of all people of all races, all skin tones, all ages, all genders, and all sizes. The fight for a more diverse Oscars shouldn't only be about greater black representation in film. What about Hispanics, Latinos, and Asians? What about diverse women with real body shapes and crazy hair?

I get it. There were several black performances deserving of a nomination. Will Smith was nearly unrecognizable in "Concussion" and Michael B. Jordan gave an incredible performance in "Creed." Then there's "Straight Outta Compton," which was expected to receive a nomination for Best Picture, yet it didn't. However, I fear that today's fight for diversity is a fight lacking in diversity.

"We" isn't just the people in Hollywood. "We" is for all lovers of film who long to see diversity in the movies. "We" is for the Hispanics, the Asians, and the real people with big dreams. That is what the Oscars preach, isn't it? To dream big? When we look ahead to the 89 Annual Academy Awards, the diversity that we see in the nominees shouldn't only be the inclusion of more deserving black nominees. The diversity that we must see is broader than skin color, it's acknowledging people from all different walks of life, in all different shapes and sizes, who are deserving of a nomination. It's Hollywood giving diversity the chance to be nominated in their films.

All people who dream in gold must be given a chance to see those dreams come to fruition. In order for the Academy to nominate these diverse artists, they need to be given a chance to star in interesting roles that challenge the ways that we see the world around us, that push us to change social norms and to break down walls of injustice. In order for Hollywood, a microcosm of society, to be diverse, society as a whole must fight for this diversity and demand it. This conversation is reaching its climactic point thanks to the controversy of this year's Academy Awards, but the end is not in sight. Only when we all dream in gold because we know that we all can achieve gold will our work for more diversity in film be complete.