I found this while blog surfing on Right Wing News. This is an interesting topic to me particularly since I went to the Kos convention in Vegas last year and saw first hand how “white” the Kos community is.

I was one of I bet (20) blacks in a conference of over 1,300 people. Believe me folks, when us black folks go to events like this we seek out other Negros just to get our bearing and so not to feel so isolated.
Not that were would necessarily meet with these individuals but if it were a secret KKK rally you would at least know you were not the only Negro who would be targeted.

This is frankly silly anyway; I bet 95 percent of the people who read this blog are white.
As Hawkins points out “Of course, getting worried about the racial make-up of a blog that anyone can freely visit is perfectly ridiculous”

Since I happen to be a Negro and I post issues that are relevant to me or stuff I’m interested in and a lot of it has to do with racial stuff and typically my message is towards white folks to give those who folks visit a black conservative perspective on the world and other stuff.  

Liberals are inherently divisive and they certainly are not in the habit of welcoming blacks in the fold unless they think they can do something for them.
I don’t understand all the fuss.

Now this is funny stuff: a Daily Kos diary called, “Is DKos ‘too white’, and in need of ‘Affirmative Action’?”

From the diary (the bolding is from the original post):

 

“If, out of 3,807 Kossacks surveyed, 82% of ‘us’ self-reported as white, 4.2% as black, 4.5% hispanic, 4% asian, 1.1% native american, and 0.08% were hawaiian/pacific islander - well, my question is: why is the DKos community, at least statiscally, so ‘white’? What are we doing wrong, and what can we do about it? 

If this is supposed to be the most influential (whatever that means) progressive blog on the web, why is our site 82% white, compared to 69% of the US population? Do we need our own sort of ‘affirmative action’?

…My question: Does this mean that the ‘average’ Kossack is most likely a white, 40-ish, middle-class, hetero male (with a few more gay friends than you might expect)? Gee, that doesn’t SOUND like the image we like to have of our demographic? Surely we’re more diverse than that! Does this sync with what psychologists call our ’self-concept’, or is something off?

…But, as DrSteveB asked in his diary, “Do white Kossacks ‘get’ race?” Well, that’s the question I want to pose. WHY is DKos so white? What can we do about that?

…I WANT TO SUGGEST THAT WE DEVELOP A COMMITTEE/FORUM TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE OF RACE/ETHNICITY AND HOW IT IMPACTS THIS SITE. Without addressing the ‘whiteness’ of this site, as well as the structural reasons this might be, we cannot devise ways to deal with this.

…But like colleges and universities, we may want to think up ways to begin to work on the ways structural racism that affects DKos, one of the most powerful sites of progressive activism in the blogosphere today. And I think this effort should foreground the voices of people of color, not the dominant white Kossacks. While I might have ideas on how to address issues of structural racism’s effect on DKos (perhaps having our committee cross-post diaries from more diverse blogs, or track down guest columnists from more diverse blogs?), I think these are the sorts of ideas that should be debated in an open forum.”

Now, these are interesting questions. What is the Daily Kos “doing wrong” to draw in so many white readers? Don’t they need Affirmative Action? Shouldn’t they form a committee to address the subject, one that isn’t run by the “dominant white Kossacks?”

Of course, getting worried about the racial make-up of a blog that anyone can freely visit is perfectly ridiculous, but boy, is it ever fun to watch the left get a taste of their own medicine!

UPDATE! Now they have “Nigga Kos” Yup…

Welcome to Black kos, the Black interest open thread on dkos. This will be a regular discussion area for topics of interest to Blacks in the US and for current events in Africa and the Caribbean. This is similar to Latino:Kos, and will be run in the same way.

One dude points out the obvious…

“I read a post from a black commenter regarding the importance of church as a ‘base’ for many members of the black community.  Seems to me we often disparge all forms of Christianity here, and I’m sure it seems insulting to at least some black Democrats…”

This is why liberals are amusing.
They will often disparage and malign Christians (something most black are), rarely include the views, opinions of and issues concerning negros (don’t say minimum wage either you fucken racist) and on occasion say or do some racist bullshit (blackface) but they want nigga participation in their little blog world?
Are these fucken people retarded or what?
This particular blog world is made up of 40-something, redneck, and hippie white folks.
I guess discussing the latest “drive by” or “urban” violence statistics may help ease some white guilt, not to mention increase black voter turnout for the Democrats.
There, there nice negro…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 at 5:00 pm and is filed under Blog Watch, Liberals, Liberal Education, Nigga Watch.
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