The Personal Democracy Forum conference is in full force right now and people retweeted poignantly Andrew Rasiej's morning lament about the lack of black and brown faces in the crowd. Among the tweets, Cheryl Contee's stood out because, as a woman of color, she mused maybe young people needed to have some fellowships to make it to the conference.

That would be nice, but ... I mean, really? The lack of young black faces in the crowd is the problem? Seriously?

Here's my question because am looking at the problem from the place of a woman who has to 16-20 hrs on web development projects to put food on my kids table and maybe scrape together an indie project or two of my own: What have you (the general YOU of infuencers, movers and shakers whose job seems to be to go exclusively from one tech and media conference to the other) done lately to support black and brown owned blog publishing and web-centric companies?

Yeah, am asking for specifics. I really want to know what exact steps have you taken to help a black or brown blog or webpreneur.

What kinds of grants have YOU given out? What kind of VC money have YOU helped to raise? What kind of business opportunities have YOU created to help black and brown new media and tech companies thrive so that their owners and workers can scrape on their own accord a ticket or two to a tech conference or even present the wealth of their experience and knowledge in one of your panels?

Seriously, what have YOU done lately for black and brown blog and web entrepreneurs --especially those of the small and micro-company variety?

Because if you haven't done anything like this, throwing a few black kids from the ghetto in your event is not going to remedy the problem.