Should white people be allowed in the conversation of multiethnicity?

[Egann]

I don't think it's racist for a white person to be involved in race based discussion, in fact, the majority opinion is one of the most essential opinions to represent. You need to have a diverse opinion, so so long as the "white" opinion is not the ONLY one, it's hardly a problem.

BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TO DIVERSITY THAN JUST RACE.

As this is a pet peeve of mine, let me explain. Diversity is about having a mixed bag of opinions and experiences, and while some of those opinions and experiences often fall along racial lines, diversity in and of itself is an intellectual thing. It's not about what color skin you have, but how you think.

Using just examples of people I've met, yes diversity can mean including the black man from down the street who grew up in "da hood" and went on to become a debate club captan, or naturalized citizens from India, Jamaica, or Kenya. None of those people are white.

It can also include the missionary's daughter who spent ten years doing mission work in India. It can mean the nuclear engineer turned linguist, spending time in sub-Saharan Africa codifying a local language into a written form. Both of those people are as white as you can get, and yet any definition of diversity would be shallow to not include them.

Heck, it could even include me. I am a white heterosexual male who has only once left the United States, but I know all of those people and have been exposed to all those opinions and experiences. Race means almost nothing in diversity.

So yeah, uninvite the whites. You're losing diversity by doing it.