you're very wrong... at 4:06, i saw Kiki on the front page. =)

User:AA claims to be part Native American. We should respect her contribution towards the ethnic diversity of this site.

Ms. Newman, I am African American! Let's be friends! I'm serious. I was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. That counts doesn't it? I'm pretty white, but I can't help that!

I have often wondered about this myself. JD is another black person who is active on Vimeo.

vimeo.com/user:JD

I have seen clips from black people, but most of them don't get involved in the community.

Maybe when we bring out groups and people can interact more with others who share the same interests we'll see a broader spectrum on Vimeo. At the moment, it probably feels like there's just one group: Vimeo diehards.

I made this video a staff pick in the hopes that it will bring in some friends for you.

South America representing...not black, but not quite white either. Does that count?

:)

If I may quote Doogie Howser from, "Undercover Brother": Dang. It's gettin all Racial up in this piece!

Pam. I love you. ROFL!
"buy me some black friends"

RAD

This was on my front page today... :)

does anyone even care?

Stereotypes make things faster. Kidding. But I think the web culture is diverse and Vimeo will attract everyone eventually.

How did you get this video to be watched 3000 times? wtf?!

i have a black friend named kelly. I drop phat beats and he freestyle raps. He wont let me record our jam sessions though. He is to shy. Maybe black people are to shy for vimeo. or maybe vimeo is to shy for black people

now that may or may not make any sense - i will let it simmer though.

maybe they're all on youtube?

Not sure how seriously to take this, but I think your methods are a little flawed. You search "black people" and "african americans", but I don't see any anglos tagging their videos with "white people" and I don't tag my videos with "Cuban people"

This is stupid. Who cares about skin color... Whether there was all black people or all white people on here does it really matter? We're people!!

To continue pondering any shortage on Vimeo, let's also talk about the general lack of a LOT of demographics! Haha, seriously, if I get greeted on the frontpage one more time by the same stale videos...

Oh, also, I think it has to do with Vimeo's main competition--Youtube--sucking away all the users. That, and the 250mb upload per week limitation!! Digital quality of video may reign supreme for those of here, but at the end of the day, even I resort to YouTube to send videos to family. Maybe black users are more space savvy? And Vimeo just can't handle that? :)

I should think that my photo at the left should say it all, but the main issue I have is that you begin talking about people from Scotland, South America, and Canada as if there are no Black people in these countries.

Hi, I'm Cecily. I live in Vancouver, Canada. Nice to meet you.

Hey, i did notice your clip on the front page. Isn't that cool? And like said before, there are not only American African (or is it African American) people on this website or others. Also, searching for "black people" doesn't really represent the amount of videos that includes black people. It's not because there are white people in my clips, i'm going to explicitly write that in the tags. Or vice versa.

vimeo.com/clip:55966

I have an African American friend who just bought a new digital camera, I will get her to sign up! I just hope she won't be lazy about it. :)

Haha! I helped bring cultural diversity to vimeo! I knew the Black People clip would make it big one day.

pam: i'm really glad you made this video. i was wondering the same thing, but didn't really think it was my place to start that dialogue. thank you for doing so--look at all this response! i adore vimeo, but working with expensive technology becomes an inherently classist problem--which in america is often a shared issue with people of color.
to everyone naming particular people in third person as representative "black vimeo users": only in such a minority population would that be possible. i mean, if someone asked where all the white people were, i doubt anyone would begin a list--what would the point be? i understand the desire to stand behind something so great as vimeo, and it makes me happy to see so many people joining in this discussion--vimeo is a community space, which has definitely been exemplified in this thread. and like any community, identifying these problems is crucial to strengthening it. it's easy to get defensive about things we love, and also to tokenize in an effort to defend, but maybe we as a community should think of how to open up this already diverse forum to the people who are absent, or at least consider these divides that aren't always so clear until someone brings them up.

Great video Pam! Awesome discussion! Dave ate the cookies.

I Dream of a day Where Vimians judge each other by the quality of their videos ...

i don't really notice it one way or another. this is also a really funny clip vimeo.com/clip:30672

this made me wonder so i googled:
42,1% of vimeo users are us americans, the rest are ~europe&canada&aus (alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=vimeo.com please, no alexa comments)
12,3% us americans are black (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_demographics_of_the_United_States)
internet penetration = 74%white&hispanics 61% black (pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_4.26.06.htm)
-> ~11% us american internet-pop are black
for europe i cant find ANY racial demographics (prop cause no one really bothered cause the situation is extremly diff from country to country) so i'll just estimate 4% internet pop are black.
so that makes 11% of 42,1% and 4% of 57,9%
about 7% here on vimeo should be black!
if not there is prob some racial discrimiation going on or my calculations were wrong (impooossible!)

and by the way, appearently only 1.6% vimeo-users are italian. so you're not even close to beeing the loneliest demographic on vimeo :)
that said, i'd like to join the friend request:
i want to meet some italians, preferably black!

WHAT IT DEW YHALL Hi I'm a AFRICAN BLACK MALE thats a FILMMAKER/ARTIST/CEO and i love here in VIMEO Thank you so go and watch my MUSIC VIDEOS that i have posted FILMED IN HOUSTON TX. "SWING WIDE" "MIND ON MY PAPER" & "25 of THEM THANGS" and i have more on the way......

isn't the whole point of having an online identity that it nullifies (or at least softens) one's physical presence? your online personality transcends color, race, class, etc. because it is a fictional environment that literally has no consequences in the real world, i.e. lives and dies while sitting in front of a computer. (i.e. When I stand up in fifteen seconds, this me will cease to exist. )