FYI

African American Opinion blog was created by "me" not "godaddy." Go-Daddy is not a sponsor of any of my blogs. Go daddy is the company I use to register and/or host my numerous blogs and websites. You may have viewed the go-daddy logo went the blog was parked. I am an African-American. I've been so for over 50 years (ouch).

Many of the people who are African American political experts should be known. New and emerging African American Political bloggers should be known as well.

Mr. Rock:

I am an African-American. I've been so for over 50 years (ouch).

I don't doubt that. I remember when you started you planned a video blogging thing and the space for that was supported (I think that was the word used, might have been 'provided') by GoDaddy, per your domain parking page. I don't see that on your list nowadays, though.

You haven't turned out to be actually annoying, though. I just know the political propensities of GoDaddy's owner.

Many of the people who are African American political experts should be known. New and emerging African American Political bloggers should be known as well.

Obviously I would agree. 

CP: 

i extended my definition to fit rachel and OW, as well as michelle malkin, because i wanted to include "POC allies" as a coding category.  I'm concerned with rhetorical/textual constructions of Black identity, so i use the POC ally category as an example of constructing identities that are respectful/sympathetic/aware of a positive Black identity without necessarily owning one.

So you make a judgement call on POC and Allies, and those who self-identify within that pool go on the Black list.

Folks like Rachel are kind of the fly in my ointment. You want to include her, whereas there are POC and even a few Black folk you'd really rather leave under the rock.