What in the world is going on at Daily Kos?

[Number23]

Apparently there's a dust up at Daily Kos over the banning of several black posters, some of whom were quite prominent. Of course, the vast majority of them were vocal Obama supporters.

"You know it had been my intention to not really discuss the place I learned to love to blog: The Daily Kos. It is no secret I was part of the great 2011 purge of Black contributors there that also caught up my fellow blogger and really good friend at The People’s View ThisisMyTime. The last I heard over 30% of the Black participants of the Daily Kos were either disciplined or banned outright." http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/09/how-markos-moulitsas-taught-me-to-call.html

:wtf: :wtf:

"We all know that the typical reader of DK is older, white, and male. The Democratic coalition tends to be younger, more female, and includes many more people of color. DK does not look like the Democratic party It worries me greatly when powerful African-American voices are silenced on this blog. African-Americans are the most loyal members of the Democratic coalition. I want to take back the house in 2012. I do not want to be saying hello to President Perry. I would ask you, Kos, to rethink the withdrawal of rating privileges and silencing of so many members of the Black Kos community." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/09/1015141/-the-Purge-of-2011:-Banning-trolls-or-silencing-voices

Calls for a boycott:

"I am tired onto sleep of those claims that any criticism of the President is racist. I don't know of a single person who made that claim. The claim I and others make is that some of the things said are not about policy. It is racist to call the President "Uncle Tom" and 'ball-less" and insensitive to refer to black people who support this President as "kool aid" drinkers. Pointing out that black people died in that flavor aid incident is pooh-poohed.How insensitive."

...As for me, well I'm calling for a boycott of Daily Kos. A boycott by all black people,brown people and people who think that racial justice is something worth fighting for. If I could march with Dr. King in Cicero Illinois, I can surely withstand the slings and arrows of a blog with a laughable insistence that it is either about Democrats or Progressives. There are other places to go.

This site as far as I can tell is an example that segregation still exists. It exists in the real world. It exists on the internet. It exists on Daily Kos.

Beginning at midnight tonight. For a week. Just don't click.

Now run and tell that.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/11/1015546/-SistahSpeak

I will refrain from noting the obvious and painful similarities between what's happening there and what's happening on DU but these two sentences:

"One of my favorite people on this site has repeated often that on the Daily Kos being called a racist is worse than racism. Some things can be held self-evident." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/11/1015546/-SistahSpeak

AND

"The leaders of Progressive space do not appear to be able to respect the words of Black people or accept their leadership, intelligence or even their honesty." http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/09/how-markos-moulitsas-taught-me-to-call.html

as well as the statements noting that the "liberal" blogosphere looks absolutely nothing like the Democratic party speak volumes.