I think you can exclude people from a group. But when you're explicitly excluding people from a group on racial lines in the name of inclusion and fighting raci

I think you can exclude people from a group. But when you're explicitly excluding people from a group on racial lines in the name of inclusion and fighting racism, you should expect some raised eyebrows. If you have an ideal of equality, you cannot use methods that are unequal; if you have an ideal that people should not be excluded based on race, you cannot make it a criterion of exclusion - at least, you can't and still expect anyone to buy that you believe in what you're selling.