Well, maybe just a little more.
Maybe there's still a little life in the Black bloggers discussion. I should run everyone who wrote something up through Technorati and follow folks back from their comments to their blogs. When it all settles down, I intend to collect all the links in chronological order in a post I can add to the "Best Of" box, because it's been right interesting. Not that I'm rushing anyone. I'm especially not rushing any of the people I was curious about…not a single one of which has participated. Anyway, one more interesting participant is Candicissima from Kitty Power, a young sister that posted in Cobb's comments:
Sister hit a familiar theme. I'm having a hard time commenting on this because hers is not an editorial blog, which is something of a requirement as I've defined "Black blog." So yeah, there's certain…not approved topics, but inevitable topics Black blogs deal in. They tend to be those topics that are traditionally the province of the "leadership," Black leadership, mainstream leadership, whatever. This is not envisioning ourselves as authorities, it's just speaking from our perspective with the freedom Candicissima speaks on the topics of concern to her (who I suspect would make a better than decent editorial blogger).
Trick is, when dealing in these topics clear thinking individuals who doesn't specify their race are assumed to be white. That's just the default, there's really no hostility or insult in that. But it tends to be something you feel the need to correct after a while, and then you get that "Oh, I didn't know…" and "You know, I pictured you as…" and if it really didn't matter you'd just pick up the conversation with the next topic, know what I mean? And though you know there's no harm mean there's still spiritual friction you have to deal with.
Ahem.
And Yvelle has further observations beyond his original contribution:
P6 called me out on not being black.
There are reasons racialized communities form on the Internet—first of all we don't leave our bodies when we go online. I have to say I don't even know where that came from. As for the question of our minds being racialized, I'm tempted to just say, "well…yeah!" and leave it at that. Instead, I'll just point out that the only difference between any two minds is their content, and that content (being derived from our embodied experience) is racialized.