Instead of celebrating the fact that there is an entire generation that has been able to attend, compete, and succeed in some of the nation's most elite institutions, there is a quiet resentment that the Barack Obamas of the world are reaping the benefits of their generation's hard work, and it's just not fair. More HERE
Another police beat-down of a black kid. Another case caught on tape. How many don't get caught on tape? There is something going on with this folks, there is a "national beat down of the black community" and no one in the civil rights community is saying much of anything.
Antonia Vargas has noted that African American Political Pundit.com along with Anderson at Large, Field Negro, Jack and Jill Politics are the more prominent blogs in the growing Afrosphere and are must-go-to sites. More HERE
Also in The Washington Post Darryl Fears points out "The new black revolution, as singer Gil Scott-Heron famously predicted, is not being televised - It is raging online. More HERE
Black community increasingly protective of Obama - Smiley "did a disservice to the black community," said L.N. Rock, the blogger known as the African American Political Pundit. He noted that Smiley billed the New Orleans gathering as an event for the people. But while the people agreed with Obama's compromise of dispatching his wife, Michelle, to speak in his stead, Smiley balked. "He should have been hammered for that," Rock said.
Blogger LN Rock of africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com predicts the blogosphere will have a "significant" role in deciding the election in November. "It tells the story when you have 120 bloggers coming to the convention," he says. "Millions of people listen, watch and hear what the bloggers say. There is a disenchantment with the traditional media." He spares the BBC his criticism, saying we are "creative media." Cheers, LN. More HERE
Another blog that was given credentials to attend the Convention, African American Political Pundit, sites its owner as “an old school brother who gives his thoughts, opinions and insights on political and social issues of the day.” The blog is shared with various other contributors who write about social issues affecting their community.
What does it mean to be a black blogger? Farai Chideya takes a closer look at the "Blogging While Brown" conference in Atlanta, Ga. Plus, a new study suggests "sounding black" can affect your salary. Our bloggers join in an experiment to see if they can decipher race by voice alone. The panel includes Danielle Belton of Black Snob, L.N. Rock — also known as the African American Political Pundit — and Richard Graves of DJ Black Adam. More HERE
"I don't get the excuses they make. It's almost insulting. All they'd have to do was do the outreach," said blogger L.N. Rock, known online as the African American Political Pundit. "It's almost as extreme as 'we couldn't find any black people for that position.'"
The rhetorical shots fired at the Democratic Party have quickly escalated. Rock, and Francis L. Holland, who runs the Francis Holland Blog, are two vocal representatives of the black blog organization known as the Afrosphere who feel strongly that the blogger pool has been skewed. Both likened the Democratic National Convention Committee's credentialing process to the Jim Crow laws that mandated segregation in blog entries and press releases sent to readers. More Here
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Is DNC Excluding Black bloggers? Since the Democratic National Committee announced its state blogger corps two weeks ago, critics have been charging that the selection process is flawed. The group of 55 bloggers, they contend, is not diverse enough. While the DNC says race wasn't a factor, the Washington Post reports that some aren't satisfied. L.N. Rock, a Silver Spring-based information technology professional and founder of the African American Political Pundit blog, likens this "black shut-out" in the State Corps to an "I'm sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired" Fannie Lou Hamer moment. The civil rights activist and Mississippian challenged her state's all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic convention. More HERE
[S]ome members of the self-titled “afrosphere” — blogs written or published by African Americans — are angry that the “State Blogger Corps” appears to be mostly white, particularly since the party appears poise to nominate a black candidate, Barack Obama, for president. “OK, folks, black bloggers to the back of the bus,” read the headline on the African American Political Pundit blog.
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Democrats consider
affirmative action a cornerstone of their national agenda, but some
minority bloggers say the party isn’t practicing what it
preaches. But some members of the self-titled “afrosphere” —
blogs written or published by African Americans — are angry that the
“State Blogger Corps” appears to be mostly white, particularly since
the party appears poise to nominate a black candidate, Barack Obama,
for president. “OK, folks, black bloggers to the back of the bus,”
read the headline on the African American Political Pundit blog. More
Today at 10 AM ET, The LiberalOasis Radio Show was broadcast on WHMP-AM in Western MA. My special guests were the African-American Political Pundit who discussed the upcoming primaries in Virginia and Maryland.
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3 comments:
Here's what I don't get. Why wouldn't they WANT this. Wouldn't Dr. King, Rev. Joseph Lowery, and others want our generation to do better than they did and build on their work? I think so.
I want my little brother to be more successful than me (I have told him so on many occasions) and I certainly want the next generation to build on our work, and will applaud all efforts to do so as long as their efforts are positive.
Face it: we here, we're doing our thing, and we aren't going anywhere...with or without their support.
Sister, that was an excellent diagnosis,and the cure to the crabs in the barrel syndrome is being dealt with by time but, here's the catch 22.
The icons representing the "crabs in the barrel mentality" are now impotent in leadership or are are dying out leaving the young generation in control and yet the young generation waste time, energy,money and effort holding leadership conferences searching for leadership, wisdom and guidance from the same people that are now impotent in leadership, dying out and suffering from "crabs in the barrel syndrome."
My question is what are you young educated African Americans going to do about moving the black race out of 4th place on the evolutionary food chain?
African Americans are in 4th place at a time when there is only enough natural resources of land, minerals, food and water for 1st and 2nd place to strategy over with 3rd place trying hard to move into 2nd place.
China is in 1st place, Europeans 2nd place, Spanish players 3rd place and The African Americans are in 4th place.
You have your youth, education, Internet and one of your own on the front line running for president of the United States Of America.
What are you young, bright, educated, political savvy African Americans going to do? What's the plan? What's the strategy?
Leave brother Wright to us, we know his history and he is not a problem when you consider all you young, bright, educated, political savvy, 6 figure earning, African Americans have going for you.
Stop beating up on the old man. Leave the old man be and go get us the Presidency of the United States of America.
Use what you have and go take what you want.
Sincerely
Enoch Mubarak
I think it may be more about age than actually being a crab in a barrel. One in their sixties do not like to think that ideas and past is useless. Their minds nor their bodies have deteriorated, nor do they think their experience is outdated. It becomes difficult to live thru two centuries where trends travel faster than light, technology is mistaken for science and culture is defined by each new generation. There is no reflection and the past doesn't matter. I wonder what those thirty somethings will think thirty years from now.
One other thing, many of us are still trying to compete in this world. We think we are just as smart, even though we didn't attend the top ten or live the life style benefiting from corporate experience. This generation never quite lets us forget, that we are not as special as they.
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