Absolutely. More than one out of eight Americans is black. So if you look at Strange Loop's dozens of speakers for 2015, you'd expect on the basis of random s

Absolutely. More than one out of eight Americans is black. So if you look at Strange Loop's dozens of speakers for 2015, you'd expect on the basis of random statistics that at least one of eight was black. Of course, this is not the case. With regards to Strange Loop, blacks are already marginalized. The organizers could have done one better and invited prolifically racist speakers to speak at this Cisco-sponsored event. They thankfully chose not to. Strange Loop is already a conference which marginalizes blacks. Inviting openly racist speakers would just underline that.