Then I'll put it another way.
New races aren't happening outright. However, let's, for the sake of argument, assume one does.
If, by some incredibly improbable turn of events, the administration decides to implement a new race, then they will get the Lore Team to make it. They will put the best people LotC has on the job, they'll consult the community and they'll pull out all the stops. They'll make it original, creative, and the best they can possibly do. It doesn't matter if another idea is good, if it's not the best, it's not going to be the one that makes it.
Is this that? The very best the combined efforts of LotC can create? Because if it isn't, then even if a new race slot did open up then something else would fill it.
As a former Lore Master who was the server's second longest serving LM after the great Rittsy himself, I'm telling you you're wasting your time here, and if you think this is going to make it as a race you're just setting yourself up for disappointment.
And if that's not convincing enough, you cannot fight the community on a new race. Rules you can force but lore? Lore can't be forced on the playerbase. Even if, again for the sake of argument, this did get implemented, if the community's against it it'll reject it like a body rejects a foreign organism. An OOCly unwanted race will be turned on, invaded, hunted and belittled in character until it goes extinct, just like the snow elves.