Fence Sitting
This one's been sitting around the Code Z office for weeks perched on the horns of a moral dilemma. How to discuss a new social networking site that's devoted to a long list of unimpeachable social causes and laudable charity work, while simultaneously presenting us with a website and press materials whose only images of black folks are the same predictable images of starving Africans so popular in the West for decades? How to highlight the work of a group whose administrative structure is so markedly white and yet who traffic in cultural symbols (e.g., the giant graffiti mural) so markedly black? We didn't know quite how to approach this sticky wicket. We're hoping our readers have some thoughts.