User blog comment:FishTank/Introducing Vanguard, Wikia's Newest Volunteer Team/@comment-758105-20160819194626/@comment-4522253-20160819222355

Vanguard is a common enough noun. We don't have ties (that I know of) to the group you're mentioning, nor the investment management group and service, nor the university in California by the same name, nor the North Carolina furniture company, nor the Hong Kong based photo / video accessories emporium, etc.

In short, it's just us, and there's not a hidden racist agenda.