oh good, you reposted. i was in the middle of commenting when you changed the post from a rant to a blog posting. i was just in the middle of hitting preview and i thought i had deleted it accidently!!!!! i went OH NO!!!!!

well i had hoped we would get more posts on black history month too but i suppose it was not to be. a look at the stats indicates to me perhaps a reason why we've had so few. i cannot "see" the entire month of february but i do have info on the last two weeks. and in those two weeks we've had only 27 members on-site loading pages out of our entire membership..

and out of those 27, 10 have posted blogs here in that same time period. so i think in terms of front page composed pieces we're really a little smaller site than it might seem at first glance.

we do have a lot more readers than that, but most of our readers these past two weeks are un-registered and cannot post either blogs or comments. and i think, from peeking in at top users these two weeks, we usually average a few more members stopping by. so the last two weeks have been really slow.

speaking for myself i had intended to post a tri-part piece on white racism that i've been working on, from a media-empowers-racism perspective, that contrasts similarities of two historical events (from the jim crow days) with somewhat similar events in the hurricaine katrina debacle. i've had a sort of skeleton framework of it laying around on my machine for about four months now and i think it would have value for others besides myself. the hard part about doing something like this, of course, is that i'm blinded to full understanding of racism by my own white priviledge. my words would not be validated by my direct experiences. any validity the piece would have would have to come from greater efforts to imagine and understand and harder work.

the second problem that i have is that all three of the events in question are extremely outrageous in nature. the two i haven't specifically mentioned are the camp logan "riot" in houston texas that occured on August 23, 1917, with the second being the Tulsa white riot that occured beginning on May 30, 1921. i know the two stories and they do need to be told more widely, each of them has been covered up in the dustbin of history, tulsa especially so.

and on top of it all, ive been working six days a week!

anywho, what i'm thinking of doing now, since i blew the february deadline, is breaking each event out into a separate piece and doing them on the anniversary dates this upcoming year. if i can keep to that schedule at the end of May i'll begin with America's Reichskristallnacht.

oh, also. artemisia is in the middle of moving clear across the united states. i believe they closed on their house sale yesterday and she's moving from the rocky coast of new england to the high desert of new mexico. i know for a fact if she weren't so busy she'd have written something too. she'll probably be missing in action, more or less, for the next few months. if any of you noted the missing goddess of the week posts, thats why!

About mothering a bi-racial child and the lessons I've learned from it (some truly surprising and painful), but I'm not sure if that really qualifies? I wasn't thinking about the topic when I wrote it, though.