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BlackPerspective.net In The Washington Post
May 27th, 2008
So some Afrosphere bloggers were interviewed and quoted in a WaPost article that was published on the web last night: Democrats’ Convention Pool: Is It All Wet?
*sighs*
I guess getting interviewed is like when you first start recording vocals (I’ve been know to do some rhyming in my day) and you don’t like the way your voice sounds; I guess I’m just never going to like the results and I might as well get used to it.
Let’s be clear, my blog versus this KnoxViews.com that got credential in the State Corps is not an issue of mine; I didn’t bring it up, Vargas asked me what I thought of it and was I familiar with it before the State Corp list came out.
My dog in this fight is not whether or not my blog was initially in the State Corp, whether it gets put in the State Corp, nor whether I personally am on the Floor of the convention; but whether there is going to be any proportional Black representation on the floor receiving the privileges of dozens of white operated blogs. This is what I have stressed to the DNCC in communications, and this is what I have stressed in any interviews or contact with the media; as can be seen in the excerpts of my original DNCC letter posted here.
I don’t focus on Tennessee based blogs because that’s simply not how I get my local news. I’m actually a local writer for a hardcopy paper as a freelancer, and working and living down the street from the State Assembly and State Capital building for years, I actual go in person to legislative events, like attending a recent governor’s speech in person. And as far as local blogging I read nashvilleistalking.com/ which is basically something like a local Daily Kos; but I don’t follow any particular bloggers, I follow the headlines that I’m interested in.
But the convo that came from the “our spheres of blogging don’t collide” comment raises a good point. There’s a world of white bloggers that people like the DNC go to and have help with designing things like their conventions State Blogs Corp, and who’s blogging conventions party officials and leaders attended. And then there’s a whole nother world of minority bloggers that are almost never consulted, much less addressed as an important constituent or constituent representative.
This is largely the issue at hand here.
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I do read several Black blogs. Therefore, I understand “completely” why they are not going to be on the Convention floor. The only one that I would question not being there would be Booker Rising, and I don’t even know if that Blogger applied. The Daily Kos is not a Black Blog, but if they are there, the B.S., and bias will be knee deep. I cancelled my plans to attend the Convention alooooong time ago on a gut feeling that the clowns, would be “clowning.” Surprise, surprise, here we go!. Oh, and before anyone raise the same old tired theme, as seen on many of the Black Blogs throughout the entire primary process, “racism!”, I am Black. Perhaps if they has used some of the time they spent looking for “racism” in every word that proceeded out of Hillary Clinton’s mouth, making sure that they were in compliance with D.N.C. criteria…
Janice, your comical; that’s the best thing I can say about you.
Go suck on Misses Hillary’s tit some more. You canceled plans to go to the convention cause you know your sorry candidate lost; plain and simple.