Blogging Beyond the Men's Club (MSM Tries to Change 'White-Dominated' Blogs)

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[sauropod]

Sounds just like Daryl Lamont Jenkins.

[JerseyHighlander]

To put it bluntly, in a truly meritocratic world, Keith Jenkins would only be a blogger, and would have an audience. Because his passion, enough to pursue it as a career, is opinionated journalism. If he can't accept the fact opinions in the worldwide Blogosphere come from almost every nation in the world, and in almost every language in the world, he's oblivious to the realities of the future of web-based media. Google and others are working on universal translators for news stories. Altavista Babblefish for everything! A million people in the world will soon be able to read the blogs of Iranian youth. If several million oppressed Iranians can run blogs in a militant theocracy with government censors, then any local hyphenated-American can surely find a way to do so also.

Buying a domain name, paying for hosting, downloading and learning to personalize a blog template cost $30 a month, TOPS!! Now, some might advertise, and some might add more features which increase bandwidth costs, but those are extras!

$30 a month is less than the cost of producing and distributing a radical newsletter in the 1960's. And on a per reader basis, cheaper on a magnitude of hundreds.

IF a group of hyphenated Americans who have a common cause can't afford to split the cost of $30 a month, their opinion isn't worth reading. Well, unless their devote monks who've taken vows of poverty, modern Buddhist philosophy has found a market in the blogosphere, and so can any group of hyphenated-Americans!

[rocksblues]

This just reinforces my belief that liberals/socialists/communists/democrats will stop at nothing to promote their agenda!

[Fenris6]

Apparently, Mr. Jenkins is not familiar with La Shawn Barber's blog

Jenkin's also fails to mention Michelle Malkin's blog - I guess asians count as whitey's in his world. What a bigot.

[Fenris6]

"I think his roundabout point is that since more blacks are on a lower rung of the socioeconomic ladder they have less access to the internet"

There was a study in the mid-90s that showed many blacks with computers were leery of the internet because it was so colorblind - they were not accustomed to playing on a level field without access to the race card.

[Ragnorak]

That might work.

In all fairness to Mr. Jenkins, maybe he never leaves his own little liberal corner of cyberspace where for all I know he might have it on good authority that there are only white males.

Maybe he just needs Toni Morrison to declare it the first black blogosphere for him to feel better.

[ran15]

They can't accept that white women, and non-whites would look at their liberal/marxist agenda and reject it.

Only a white-male who in their twisted minds is holding all the others down in the capitalist system.. would reject their progressive views.

Therefore every blogger who disagrees with them must be a white male.

[Fenris6]

Or all the arab blogs reporting out of Iran.

[meadsjn]

What nonsense. The internet provides the ultimate opportunity for color-blind communication.

Only the race-baiting poverty pimps would be concerned about how to enforce racial quotas among a hundred million anonymous internet users.

[TalBlack]

"It's white people linking to other white people!"

1.) When Blacks or women link to other Blacks or women in any way manner shape or form it is considered a good thing. So why the hypocrisy when it is whitey.

2.) Does anyone believe that these white bloggers are sitting behind their keyboards hoping no minorities log on?

[toddlintown]

Who's stopping a black from starting a blog and getting some traffic?

[AZ_Cowboy]

Wow! And before they were telling audiences that bloggers were a bunch of ninnies banging on their keyboards in their pajamas.

The Beverly Hilbillies just turned into the Boys from Brazil, apparently.

[Interesting Times]

Leftists really don't have any faith that blacks can succeed in a merit-based system...

[Anvilhead]

If white males are the ones blogging, what of it?

The web is completely free form. Anyone of ANY race can blog with a cheap computer. This is simply an attempt to create a problem where none exists.

Blackplanet, for example, is a website solely for black folks. If more white males wind up putting out the more popular blogs then that's just the way it shakes out.

What matters is the content, sort of like professional sports.

And let's face it, trying to "diversify" sports would chap everybody's cheeks.

As far as the potential for "white male" domination, what does it matter? If other folks want to blog, what is stopping them? It's not like it takes a $50,000 college education to blog.

If it works out that some people dominate certain things but don't conspire to keep others out (impossible given the nature of the web) then WHAT IS FRIGGIN' THE PROBLEM?!?!?!

[NationSoConceived]

Is this brother a damn fool or what! What are we gonna have affirmative action on the internet! So let's see:

1. if you have a computer you can access the 'net.
2. nobody can control what you write on the blogs.
3. there are already black/afrocentric sites on the net.
nobody can prevent anyone else from goin on the net.

I'm sorry but I can't go on! This man is a supreme fool. I wonder what kind of articles he writes for the Post.


Those reasons are exactly why they want affirmative action on the Internet. Affirmative action has always been about control.

[Zhangliqun]

Does the blogosphere have a diversity problem?

1) To the extent that it does, it is purely voluntary on the part of non-white males. Nothing is stopping them from joining in the fray. 2) How do they KNOW what color or sex bloggers and especially the blogs' fans are?

[Zhangliqun]

Keith Jenkins, an African-American blogger...

He has a blog? I thought he just said he couldn't have one!

[lainde]

bttt

[CurlyDave]

As much as I wish I could, I can't read more than about five blogs a day. I have them bookmarked, 3 are written by while males, one by a female of unknown race, and one by Thomas Sowell.

Sounds diverse to me, and it is of my own choosing.