Blogging in a White World.

Reading the blog article about The African-American Blogging Thing brings up a few important topics about how homogeneous the blogging community actually is. When one imagines a typical blogger, we think of a skinny white kid with classes drinking his Starbucks next to the computer while bemoaning the ills of the world. Reason being, is that this accounts for a significant number of bloggers. Part of this has to do with a racial divide in internet use, but the blogger Antigone makes an important distinction. It is not use of blogging overall, but political blogging that he focuses on and hopes to see increased diversity in participation:
"At any rate, there are a lot of African-Americans blogging, but it’s not
explicitly political. Figuring out how to change that is a lot of the
challenge, but it’s not a simple problem".

My theory: maybe there would be more distinctly "black" political bloggers if there were more reason for African Americans to get information from the internet which is a lily white world geared at lily white nerdy kids with eyeglasses and Starbucks.