gnu, if your question were phrased, "How many people have posted on this thread who have publicly acknowledged on Mudcat that they are Black?", my count is three-if you count the comments that I reposted that Hilda Fish wrote on that archived "Response to Racism" Mudcat thread.

In addition to Hilda Fish, the two people are Quarcoo, who is from Ghana, West Africa and me {United States}.

If your question had been "How many people of color have posted on this thread {with "people of color" meaning those who have publicly acknowledged on Mudcat that they are non-White as the term "non-White" is currently defined by most people in the United States, my response would be the same. And I would be counting the same people who I counted for your first question.

If I were asked "How many people who posts on Mudcat are Black and/or are people of color?", I wouldn't know the answer to that question. However, I know that there is at least one other Black person who periodically posts on Mudcat. I know this because last year that Mudcat member sent me a private message and told me that he is African American. This Mudcat member also told me in that private message that he never posts to threads about race. He gave no reasons as to why he did not identify himself by race or why he did not participate in any Mudcat threads about race. That private message came out of the blue. Or at least, I don't recall any reason why he communicated with me. However, that pm probably coincided with a discussion about race that was going on at that time on another Mudcat thread. My response to this Mudcat member was that I regretted that he chose not to identify himself by race, but to each his or her own. By the way, I have received only a few other private messages from this member, but I have seen a photo of him that confirms that he is,indeed, of African descent.

And I will also say that he seems like a nice person.

But being nice doesn't have anything to do with the price of beans in Boston.