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Dems Snub Minority Bloggers ... Then Repent

It appears that the Democratic Party officials in charge of selecting the 55 bloggers who will make up the ?State Blogger Corps? at the party convention in Denver violated on of the party?s core principles: they (can you believe it!) evaluated the candidates according to a set of criteria that did not include race!

Party leaders said the factors in determining state bloggers were readership, Internet ratings and focus on local and state politics, not race

Since the Dems have specific racial, ethnic, and gender ?goal and timetables? (quotas, to the naked eye) for the actual delegates to their convention (as I discussed here, here, and here), one can readily understand why minority bloggers felt they were being discriminated against because they were not singled out for preferential treatment.

Not to worry. The Dems obviously recognized that in addition to violating party principles they had made a terrible political blunder in evaluating minority bloggers by the same standards used for all the other bloggers, and the moved quickly to get back in line with party preferentialist policies.

A second round of blog credentials will be announced before the end of the month, party leaders said, and minority bloggers will be purposely included in that selection.

To the best of my knowledge the post-racial candidate who wants to move beyond old divisions and bring us all together hasn?t been heard from on this issue.

Full post as published by Discriminations on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).