Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
[LATER: Corrected Cecily's name in the title (damn spellchecker!)]
Colorado Luis (an instant addition to the blogroll, btw) has picked up on the "What does it mean" in his own Latino context:
Like S-Train (see the comments to "What Does It Mean To Be A Black Blogger?"), Luis decided right up front that the ethnicity gors right up front:
Why do I say "brown"? Because as I have mentioned before, the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" are notoriously imprecise and intended to capture some people who enjoy the societal benefits of whiteness, while what I am talking about is blogging by people of color about the experience of being nonwhite in America. In an era when people had a more sophisticated understanding of race than most people have today, laws were passed banning discrimination on the basis of "race, color or creed." Today, people try to define "race" out of existence without addressing the reality that people in this country notice color and act on it pretty much constantly.
Defining race out of existance.
Don't. Get. Me. Started.
Buried in there are links to his previous stuff. Check 'em.
He also says:
I have a very serious reason for separating the idea of Black blogs and Black bloggers, which is there's still way too fucking much noise about who's authentically Black. I ain't having none of that discussion in here. General Powell is Black. Disappointing, but Black. Condoleeza Rice is Black. Her great intelligence perverted by her dedication to The Dark Side, but Black. Thomas Sowell is Black. A sellout, but Black. Fifty Cent is Black. A bad fucking example, but Black.
And Kos is Brown, but because his blog is totally oriented on mainstream issues I can't say his blog is. Again, he's not in denial; you can't say "I am MEChA" in the middle of all this noise and be in denial, but the noise is a mainstream issue and is the only reason you know.
And there nothing wrong with that; just as there's nothing wrong with Luis' blog or mine, or MB's or Baldilocks' or any of a great number of blogs or magazines or web sites or organizations.
In closing:
Seriously, I been easy to miss. I haven't been blogging for a year, and after all, Atrios and Tapped never read my blog Can't find NegroPundit.
As an aside, between Negrophile, Uppity-Negro and NegroPleaseDotCom, satire may remove the politically pejorative coloration from the term Negro.
Kevin Hayden had mentioned Colorado Luis in an email message several weeks ago, I checked it out, and have had him on my blogroll - and more importantly in my RSS reader - ever since.
When I first started blogging in late May 2002, there were hardly any Muslim blogs out there. If you go far enough back into my archives you'll see a bunch of plaintive posts exactly like LatinoPundit's, bemoaning the fact that Google provided more links to right-wing anti-Muslim sites than to actual Muslim blogs. Now there are over 150 Muslim blogs and that's just the ones I know about.
One thing that helped build the community of Muslim bloggers was a discussion forum that many of us belonged to. People linked to their blogs in their signatures and started threads about blogging and slowly but surely more and more forum members started their own blogs. I think this works because it takes an already existing community and expands it into the blogosphere.
Atrios and TAPPED should be reading this site, that is for sure. Great posts, great links, great commenters. What more can you ask for? I'm glad you appreciate my site, and I'm looking forward to getting some inspiration from what is going on over here.
What I meant about 'NegroPundit' was a joint blog of color. Is there a call for this from the trenches? I don't think so. But indeed do black bloggers and brown bloggers feel that they get the proper amount of exposure?
Well, there was no call for A Fistfull Of Euros either, but there it is.