Liberals in MN cancel writers' conference because no blacks accept invitation to speak

Left/liberal outfits are so shamelessly politically correct that they'll cancel a planned conference or workshop if they don't get enough people of color, gays and so on to speak or present.

Naturally you think this is just paranoia.  That's probably due to the fact that you haven't seen any mainstream media stories about it.  Let's fix that:  The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that a leftist writer's organization ("the Loft") announced its "Children’s and Young-Adult Literature Conference," but then cancelled it days later after no persons of color accepted invitations to speak, out of ten invitations.
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“We have set a goal for ourselves to be inclusive and to work toward equity, and we didn’t think the conference would live up to that mission,” Britt Udesen, executive director of the Loft, said Wednesday. “We made a mistake.” 

Ah, I see:  If not enough people of color accept your invitation, the white organizers realize they've made a mistake?  What's next?  Are libs gonna start having to pay "people of color" extra to speak if the organizers want to go through with a planned conference?

According to director Udesen, "complaints from the public" helped prompt the decision to cancel the conference, but Udesen refused to say how many complaints, or who made them.

One writer who clearly didn't like the conference was a black woman, Shannon Gibney, who said "the issue of diversity is crucial, because children’s literature remains overwhelmingly white."  She complained that the children’s literature conference hasn't been diverse enough.

 

Gibney complained that the conference "has felt stiflingly white, definitely stiflingly older white woman, stiflingly suburban.”

Whaddya wanna bet this one complaint caused the white director Loft to cancel the whole thing?  Cuz if there's one kiss of death to a liberal organization it's being accused of lacking "enough" diversity.  One complaint is all it takes.

Exit question:  If a dozen black writers and one white were slated to speak, do you think anyone would dare to complain about a "lack of diversity"?   Of course not.