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The story so far

by Prometheus 6
September 22, 2003 - 6:51am.
on Race and Identity

It started with Cecily at Formica, but I found it first at Lynne's diary. This is all of the posts in the Black Bloggers -> Blag Blogs -> Identity Blogging conversation, in roughly the order that I became aware of them.

Lynne d Johnson
Cecily
P6
Colorado Luis
P6
Cobb
Glenn
P6
dcthornton
Yvelle
Oliver Willis (not really, but...)
P6
Glenn
P6
Jason
P6
Candicissima
Yvelle
P6
Lauren
P6
Terry
Erica
P6
John Constantine
Greg
P6
Lauren
P6
Aldahlia
P6
Greg
alegna
astridiana
Mac Diva
Cecily
Luz Paz
Erica
Kim
Robin
S-Train
Phelps
P6

These posts alone are not the whole discussion. The comments are often excellent, and you can find links to related topics in them. And I can't guarantee having caught all of the discussion—in particular, any branches that exist in the Conservative side or the purely non-political-commentary side of BlogNet will probably have gone beneath my radar.

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Submitted by Luis (not verified) on September 22, 2003 - 8:52am.

Check out Luz Paz from yesterday.

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Submitted by swirlspice (not verified) on September 23, 2003 - 5:36am.

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[Part 1] [Part 2] [The P6 Collection] Here ya go, Lauren. What It Means To Be White We all know by now that I'm biracial. Half black, half white. I thought about trying to answer these questions as they are.......

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Submitted by swirlspice (not verified) on September 23, 2003 - 6:29pm.

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I is for Identity Blogging. If you still haven't read through Prometheus 6's collection on the subject, you should. Or start here and follow the links. I is for intergalactic. China's about ready to send people into space. I is......

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Submitted by Mike's QuickLinks (not verified) on September 24, 2003 - 9:24am.

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Prometheus 6 has done a great job of tracking the Identity Blogging Meme. Some great stuff has been written in these psots. Check them out and join in....

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Submitted by latinopundit (not verified) on September 24, 2003 - 1:49pm.

Swirlspice says:"To be white means nobody looks at you twice (usually). Nobody looks at you with fear (usually). To be white means nobody's trying to figure out what's "in" you. To be white means you blend in. You belong. You look like most people around you."LatinoPundit responds:Goto 125th Street, Harlem. Goto Spanish Harlem...149th St., the Bronx...goto Honduras or Latin America. you wouldn't feel the same. A "white," person speaks from a white perspective. Take that person out of their "natural white environment," and then they will get the jist of it.

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Submitted by P6 (not verified) on September 24, 2003 - 2:31pm.

Interestingly enough, the same point was made by the first commenter at SwirlSpice, but you had to trace back to her blog to see what she's talking about. The commenter is in Japan for 9 months.I spent a week there, and I know what she's talking about.

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Submitted by Signiphile (not verified) on November 16, 2003 - 3:01pm.

I think if the folks at Afro-Netizen can get there act together in the blogosphere, they can create a space a buzz, resources and a safe and rewarding space for would-be afro-bloggers to flourish.My impression, however, is that blogging phenomenon has not yet significantly penetrated the Black community.

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Submitted by P6 (not verified) on November 16, 2003 - 9:26pm.

My impression, however, is that blogging phenomenon has not yet significantly penetrated the Black community.

I think you're talking about editorial or political bloggers. Black diary, or personal, bloggers are all over the place. It's
I think if the folks at Afro-Netizen can get there act together in the blogosphere, they can create a space a buzz, resources and a safe and rewarding space for would-be afro-bloggers to flourish.
This is what makes me think you're talking political bloggers. And it also makes me think you've been around the net for a while. See, blogging already has a buzz. And resources can be had for free or cheap. But the safe and rewarding part, THAT'S what makes me think you've been around long enough to see Black folks' first pass at establishing a web presence. If a Black oriented site got any exposure at all, some racist assholes would come and pollute the joint as fast as they could connnect. It's why so much Black oriented conversation takes place via unpublicized listservers to this day.You want to know the truth? Black folks will have to make our own spaces safe.Now, I haven't had the kind of serious challenge yet that made me dedicate this post to Jason, George, j. brotherlove and Aaron. I don't know that I ever will—my blog makes a different kind of impact than theirs do. I don't think that I give people a lot of confidence that I won't be capable of embarrassing the shit out of them. That's good, because I'm capable of embarrassing the shit out of them.Anyway, I don't know what Afro-Netizen's plans are but as a Black partisan I'd welcome more Black political/editorial bloggers. Any advice I have is free for the taking. And actually, I have the odd idea here and there that I'm reflecting on in this regard.

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Submitted by Phelps (not verified) on November 18, 2003 - 12:22am.

This is what makes me think you're talking political bloggers. And it also makes me think you've been around the net for a while. See, blogging already has a buzz. And resources can be had for free or cheap.

I don't have anything useful to add, but I can quibble over words. I think the key to his statement was blogosphere. In the sense of cross-linking and the blogosphere (it is the cross-linking that makes it a sphere, after all) then you would tend to confine it to politi-blogging and passing around the latest "Which Care Bear Are You" quiz. I just haven't seen a lot of cross-linking in the personal diary type, and the ones that have started tend to drift into the politi-blogging arena.

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Submitted by P6 (not verified) on November 18, 2003 - 4:12pm.

Actually, the connections in diary blogging circles are the comments, not cross links. If you read a few, particularly LiveJournal blogs, and follow the links to commenters' blogs you'll see what I mean. It's more nebulous but still real.

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Submitted by feministe (not verified) on January 8, 2004 - 10:59am.

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Even though the Bloggies stir up a lot of controversy every year, I thought I'd make my nominations. The Identity Blogging series that many of us participated in, I think, is perhaps the best discussion I've ever had since beginning blogging. I read th......

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