This past week Winston-Salem hosted what has become a very prominent arts festival, the National Black Theatre Festival.  It's a big deal and it's a heck of a boost to the city, and as you'd expect the Winston-Salem Journal has given it significant coverage.  Also not surprising is the feedback that the Journal's editor has gotten.  In a couple of words it's that the paper is "too black."  In his blog post about the issue Ken does the best job of explaining why there's not a "National White Theatre Festival":

One of the issues is of course terminology, its the National BLACK Theatre Festival. And so one caller asked when we were going to cover the National WHITE Theatre Festival and wouldn’t people be up in arms if such an event existed. But of course, such events exist. They’re just not labeled as such. And we do cover them. The labeling along racial and ethnic lines is part of minority groups—racial, ethnic, religious—banding together to tell the majority that they exist. Majority groups don’t have to label. They’re implied.

I think he's right, but I'll add my own two cents.  I don't think there's a need for a national "white" anything, but the day is approaching when whites will no longer be the majority in America.  When that happens and when someone decides that there's a need for a National White Theatre Festival I hope that the same acceptance applies.