With LJ now being a predominantly Russian company you're dealing with a company that has a worse understanding of Race issues than the US.

The only major race to live there besides the Russians were the Jews; the Pogroms were a fairly good indicator of how that worked out.

See: Ethnicity and Race by Countries

Russia: Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002)

US: White: 211,460,626 (75.1%); Black: 34,658,190 (12.3%); Asian: 10,242,998 (3.6%); American Indian and Alaska Native: 2,475,956 (0.9%); Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: 398,835 (0.1%); other race: 15,359,073 (5.5%); Hispanic origin:1 35,305,818 (12.5%)


Edited at 2011-01-06 02:26 pm (UTC)

They will probably argue that the custom userheads were designed off of the existing user heads, which are stark white with gray shading, not the color of white flesh. Won't make it right though.

There's a brown one.

Third row down, second from the left. Also shows up in the middle of the group of 9 blown up at the top. Not really sure why he has a green apple over his face though!

It can be two things. Fact remains, they did it with dark skin.

If that icon is "white" why is it darker than every other human icon by like 4 shades? Sorry, not buying it. That is WAY darker than my skin will ever be, even if I spent all summer tanning.

Why are you so determined that your point can't be made unless there's an absolute? I didn't say your overall point was invalid. What, "there aren't enough POC userheads" can't be racist - it has to be "there are NO POC userheads" to be racist?

Edited at 2011-01-08 01:40 am (UTC)