White Audience?

I saw this item on Matt Welch's blog [1]

Luke Ford, Covering a David Horowitz Conference on Illegal Immigration in Beverly Hills [1]:

The audience of about 100 people is all white.

There's much more of interest in his reporting, but that bit stuck out.

Really? What stuck when I read the thing [2]was this:

David Horowitz doesn't mind tackling the controversial (with the elites only, regular folks are dead-set against illegal immigration).

There's more on this conference on Cathy Seipp's blog [3] about the immigration conference, including quotes from Heather Mac Donald: [4]

Heather talked about the taboo we have now about illegal immigration's effect on crime. "Reporters just don't bother to ask," she said. "In all the of the [Jose Raul] Pena stories, [Pena's 19-month-old daughter was accidentally shot by the LAPD after he used her as a shield in a violent standoff] the L.A. Times has mentioned once that Pena was here illegally. The New York Times hasn't deigned to mention [5]it a single time."

and Mark Krikorian:

"Any system that a Mexican busboy can slip through is one that an Al Qaeda terrorist can slip through."

True [6]. But the busboys [7]are bad enough. [8]

However, returning to what originally struck Matt Welch, the putatively all white audience, (Cathy Seipp estimated 95%) I'd guess that David Horowitz sent out invitations without regard to race, creed, or color, and the white people were who showed up.