racialicious and angryasianman are trying to get a panel together for the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival. (Previously, members of the two sites were on a panel entitled “Challenging the Mainstream: Asian Americans in the Ethnic Blogosphere”at the NYC Asian American Student Conference.) The panel entitled “Can Social Media End Racism?” covers the tangled issues of race and privilege in our society come to a boiling point on the internet. Exploring the complicated place of race in society, this presentation examines the ideas of race in the digital environment with a specific focus on social media. Other speakers on this panel may include Jay Smooth from Ill Doctrine and Phil Yu from Angry Asian Man. If you want to support them, go here and vote. Your vote counts.

Voting closes on August 29. SXSW Interactive hopes to reveal the first batch of programming and confirmed speakers in October.

Here’s what the discussion could be like