I’ve been sick with the flu since last night and barely keeping up with anything. But in one of my (rare) lucid moments today I came across this post by “Lower Manhattanite” on The Group News Blog, a site that continues in the spirit of Steve Gilliard’s News Blog.
I’m white (and Jewish). Too often we whites assume that everyone else is like us, and I suspect, this unconscious impulse is even more prevalent online, since you usually can’t tell a person’s race or ethnicity simply from reading a blog post by them. (That’s why we did a panel at last year’s PdF conference entitled, “Is cyberspace colorblind?”) If you’re white, I think LM’s post, which he titled “Pride and Palpitations,” will make you understand just how historic Barack Obama’s Iowa caucus victory was last night–and how much race and violence still weigh on our country like a curse. Let us hope that those times are behind us.
It’s long, but read the whole thing.