I'll never be in a position where they'll have me over to their house. They won't want me in that group. I know I'll have to have a white front end. To some critical observers, such rhetoric just masks a convenient, though sometimes well-intentioned, effort to sidestep unresolved racial issues instead of dealing with them in earnest. It's not all that matters.
Race is an issue.
It will always matter. It's your perspective, your history, your bias, for bad and for good. I had long discussions about it, and they were all with white people. And I think that's probably a good thing right now, because the Web is at such a beginning stage that you want to be able to help people find something they can relate to. But Dreyfuss, of Our World News, worries that such narrowcasting of Web sites contributes to a resegregation of sorts.