Afrosphere bloggers may not be seated at the Denver Convention by the DNCC

I am fast approaching the 2nd anniversary of my starting this blog. I started this blog May 24, 2006. It was rant about my request some reading material at my local library. And here it is two years later and I am banned from this very same library. The ban will be lifted on August 10, 2008. I am not afraid of expressing my opinion but who would think that would get you banned from libraries for a whole year or even for a day.


But, my main purpose for starting the blog was to generate revenue. But, I found that blogging attracted folks who would attempt to shut down your blog and discourage your opinion.

When it comes to blogging race and gender does matter. As an African-American blogger in Indiana blogging was supported by their friends and was not welcoming to outsiders. I started without a name because I wanted to hide. But this did not stop the local blogger community to seek out my identity. This action put me on notice that some bloggers are mean, evil and hateful. My writing about race made me a racist rather than the hateful things that said about me or the African-American community.

I began to seek out African-American bloggers beyond the local scene and discovered that the attacks on me were unique to other African-American bloggers. The goal was to silence the AFrican-American voice from the blogging market and make it whitosphere only. However, a few raced white bloggers supported me and gave me the scoop on the mind game played by evil bloggers.

I went on to join a group on African-American bloggers and linked to raced white bloggers that I enjoyed reading and some that critical. But, on my approaching anniversary, I am writing about the tactic used to silent the African-American voices in the Afrosphere. It appears that AAron Myers, the online director of communication of the Democratic National Convention Committee selected a 50 state blogger corp that is missing African-American bloggers.

This is two years later and the number of African-American bloggers have grown. I am the only African-American blogger in my city, Fort Wayne, but not the only African-American blogger in the State of Indiana. To be fair, I did not apply for credentials to appear on the floor or general admission. But what gets me is that some of the greatest writers in the Afrosphere did apply and they were not selected!!!

Listen, the blog that got selected from my home state got only six hits announcing its selection by the DNCC:



Blue Indiana

http://www.blueindiana.net

Blue Indiana is the headquarters of Indiana's left-leaning blogosphere. We are dedicated to highlighting the amazing work being done by Indiana's bloggers, and fighting to give the people of Indiana true, sane representation.

WOW ! How did happen? What is grassroot about this blog that depends on other bloggers for stories? Nothing. Which suggest to me that there may be operatives of the Democratic Party (insiders) determining who gets to blog about their party. Now I could be wrong, and it won't be the first time. But I am beginning to think these bloggers would not vote for Obama.


The first post I find on Obama , on BlueIndiana is November 2007 , was this statement in an article :

In yet another publication (a UK one at that), Bayh is praised for his accomplishments and is once again penned as a vice-presidential frontrunner. This can spell only good news for Indiana Democrats, who with a serious eye on replacing Governor Mitch Daniels in 2008, stand only to gain from a Clinton-Bayh ticket.

Blue Indiana technoratic ranking is:

Rank: 26,192
Authority: 249


Enough said.

Aaron Myers believes the pot is being stirred for no apparent reason because African-American bloggers could get a shot at the convention floor under the rules of the "General pool".

Markos has implied that this forthcoming list of "General Pool" blogs will
not have access to the state delegations at the Convention*. That's
incorrect. At previous Democratic Conventions and again in Denver, state
delegates spend much of their day meeting outside of the convention hall.
All bloggers and other members of the media will be aware of state
gatherings. They'll have the same access to provide the same level of
coverage. And "General Pool" bloggers will be able to walk around and
gather information on the convention floor via "floor passes." Any
credentialed blogger will have unparalleled access to their state delegation
-- and to this Convention as a whole. It's that simple.

Did he say meeting outside the convention hall? This one one bite of the apple should be available to those African-American bloggers who are not simply connected to the political machine.