Josh, head in sand is your opinion, I go by what I see in front of me not what I an told or what I 'read somewhere'. Aikido is an amazing melting pot for white, black and Asian people, I have wonderful friends. As far as orientations go, I do not know and care even less, they are my friends. It does seem that black and Asian are attracted to that art, probably less to other pastimes such as caving. In the end, its their choice.
Attracting more people into caving is a worthy aspiration and I wish you sucess. I want to see more people, particularly younger people, attracted into caving, martial arts, sports, whatever. I see not only improved physical fitness, but team spirit, self respect, respect for others and a lot of other worthy qualities. However, I feel that the initiative will achieve little in that direction but simply be generally perceived as another woke virue signal by yet another organisation. I hope that I am wrong, the proof of pudding is inthe eating as they say, so maybe 12 months down the pike we can have a report of its sucess or otherwise.