Web Racism, will it ever die?
One of our great contributing writers, Maurice Cherry, recently posted an article titled “Where are all the Black Web Professionals.” It is a great read, please check it out. Anyway, what leads me to bring up this post is all the discussion it has generated. It is definitely a touchy subject that hits home for many Blacks working in the web industry and really for ANYONE working in the web industry. We can see that over at 1938 Media (you know, the video blogger who did “Where are all the Black Tech Bloggers“) where Loren Feldman and his readers discuss Maurice’s post. After reading the comments I almost didn’t even write this post, summing the whole issue up to not being able to enlighten people who are as close minded as that. It is really sad how some really believe there is no difference other then presentation between “Where are all the Black Tech Bloggers” video and “Where are all the Black Web Professionals” post. Oh, don’t mind the statistical data (although it may be skewed a bit) from the survey ALA did on about 32k web professionals. That in addition to simple observations from our readers is 1000% more accurate then any video mocking what a stereotypical “Black Tech Blogger” would look like and represent. So, that is the difference. It has nothing to do with the color of the skin of who is blogging on the matter or “Who asked the question first” or who will be seen on Techmeme. Seriously Loren, Grow up. I think what most of us are learning about this whole issue is that it needs to be discussed, intelligently.
BTW Loren thanks for the traffic.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:04 am
The traffic was the point. Glad people are discovering other voices.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
It amazes me that so few people get the point of what Loren Feldman did.
I think his ‘web opera’ did a sensational job of getting a discussion going, and by so doing, actually highlighting the presence of the black techbloggers who responded to his provocation.
Frankly, it’s a bit naive to think that Feldman was “mocking what a stereotypical “Black Tech Blogger” would look like and represent”.
If that were his intent, I’m sure he would have done a much better job of it.;-)
October 30th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Hmmm… seems like a good opportunity to encourage your readers to learn more about Freedom Technology Center
peace, Villager
June 6th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
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