Huge white culture, here:
It’s the kind of thing we white people say that we think sounds fair to us, because we benefit so much from the baked-in biases of the so-called meritocracy. But the truth is we exclude a great many works and people before even determining their quality, simply because they aren’t what we’re used to (white, male, default). We need to consciously start adding diversity to the art canon. We need to seek it out and demand it.
(ETA: yes, I am aware that MRK is white also, but hers was an answer that sums up the problem and that I knew where to find).
