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08/07/2007: "What group empowers the liberal movement?"

[ First, guess: Jews? African-Americans? Women? Mexicans? Christians? Muslims? Gays? ]

It’s Sunday, day 4 of Yearly Kos, the major conference for progressive bloggers, and Gina Cooper, the confab’s organizer-in-chief, surveys the ballroom of the massive McCormick Place Convention Center.

“It’s mostly white. More male than female,” says the former high school math and science teacher turned activist. “It’s not very diverse.”

There goes the open secret of the netroots, or those who make up the community of the Internet grass-roots movement.

Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, who is part Latina, attended a panel on Friday called “The Changing Dynamics of Diversity in Progressive Politics,” organized by Cheryl Contee, an African American woman. Ancona works for Vote Hope, a California-based activist group, and said one reason she came to Yearly Kos was to get an answer to this question: “Why is the blogosphere, which is supposed to be more democratic, reinforcing the same white male power structure that exists?”

Everyone agrees it’s a problem, yet no one is sure how to address it. Historically, the progressive movement has included a myriad of special-interest and single-issue groups, and the challenge has always been to find common ground. The same is true on the Internet, but with an added twist. The Internet, after all, is not a “push” medium like television, where information flows out, but a “pull” medium, where people are drawn in.

[ Misguided, underconfident white males seeking social reinforcement ARE the liberal movement. Stop blaming others -- put the blame where it belongs, and purge us of these inferior white males! ]


Cooper is worried about generating more “inclusion,” using the word no less than six times in 15 minutes.

“I hate using the word ‘diversity.’ I don’t know what we use there. But what we definitely need are voices from different communities,” she says. And the problem, she adds, stretches beyond ethnic and gender inclusion. There’s a socioeconomic gap, too.

“Naming the conference ‘Yearly Kos’ was useful for us. It gave us a brand,” Cooper continues. “Now that more people know about us, people should know that everyone is welcome. The big question is, how do we include everybody?”

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/08/a_diversity_of.php

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on Tuesday, August 7th, Osama bin Laden said

Whites get the blame for being ~70% of the American population. Most people are followers, not leaders - its part of natural human order.

Without creating another flame fest, I leave you with this:

put this in perspective with the knowledge of the people who constructed the industrial revolution, controlled and controls banking and loans (to get people off the farms and into the city to take company jobs), owned and owns the popular media, and controls national commerce.

In the context of Germany:

Hitler understood the same sort of problem plaguing his people. He knew that a bunch of foreign gangsters were corrupting the Germans and their culture. People follow whatever culture they are led into.

We need to take control of our culture and our economy. We need a national identity and to be free of this globalist, foreign influence. Then, only then, can we hope to reform our own people and return to something sane.