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Today I leave again for Chicago to attend @swirlspice on Twitter.  Erica has several active blogs of her own and also is part of many local blogs in Minneapolis.  Of course, we met via Twitter vs the blogsphere.  Through Erica’s story of attending BarCamp’s and blogging, a new “blogview” began to open up for me.  Suddenly, I was finding Brown bloggers everywhere!  Actually, one of the first things I did when I started using Twitter was to look for and follow Brown people who looked interesting.  The first two people to fit this description were @waynesutton and then @kenyatta.

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In the end, it reminds me of the Clark study where researchers did testing on young Black children regarding their doll preference and perceptions of self.  I’m including a video here of Kiri Davis who repeated an informal version of the study and got pretty much the same results.

Being able to find and then connect with authentic people, like me, has helped me become more willing to try things that I thought were “not for me” and I’m grateful for this awareness.

See you all at the conference!