My letter is below.  The contact information is:

Brian Carrr
brian@brian.carr.name
Vancouver, WA

You are welcome to omit the contact information if that would put me over 250 words (and hence potentially exclude the letter).   My count was 249 so I am pretty close...  Also, the first two words are just my thoughts for a heading, but you should feel free to use whatever you think appropriate (it is just a thought).

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Event Blackballing?

I would like to solicit members' opinions of an AMC rule which allows the event coordinator of any Mensa sponsored event (local or national) to insist that a member leave the event without any justification or rationale being necessary.

I myself understand the need for such a rule, but was shocked when it was applied to me.  An event I regularly attended at a local restaurant did not have any event coordinator so the LocSec (Portland, OR) made a special trip there (he rarely attends that event) and insisted that I leave.  When I asked why I had to leave, he said that no reason needed to be given, but that it was because some of the members present were not comfortable with my presence there.

By way of a background, my wife and I are both members of Mensa and are in the midst of an adversarial divorce.  While I am a long term member of Mensa, I am relatively new to the area and there is the possiblity that my wife has made some misleading or even false claims concerning me.  However, in a 'no justification' environment it is hard to refute unstated conclusions.

My concern about this policy is that I imagine that there are at least a few black members of Mensa who aren't very comfortable being around whites as well as some Arabs who aren't completely comfortable with Jews, Southerners with Yankees, etc..  Shouldn't there be some review policy for such exclusions?