A few thoughts on last night's discussion

When we first started discussing a "race neutral" space in class last night, I was hoping we would discuss what that would look like. As far as I can see, there is no such thing as truly race neutral, because the neutrality would all depend on what metrics you use to define neutral.
To give an example, would you be neutral based on the reported number of "races" in a community? Say the community is 54% race A, and 46% race B, would you then have 54% books race A might be interested in, and 46% books race B might be interested in? But say the users of the library are 90% race A and 10% race B, would you then balance your collection 90/10 based on usage? And who decides what is a book any give race might want? There is a bias built into that decision right there.
Could you make the library neutral by making the collection reflect the books actually checked out at the library? Taking into account all books gotten through ILL, could you build a neutral collection that way? If 50% of books checked out are on topic A, 25% on topic B and 25% on topic C could you then build a collection that is 50/25/25? But that doesn't reflect the wants of the whole community, that only reflects the wants of the library users. Perhaps members of the community can't even get what they want at the library, and so they don't use it.
This is a really sticky, convoluted problem, and I can't see any clear answer. I hope this makes sense, since I haven't even had my first cup of coffee yet...so feel free to comment.