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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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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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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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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......