I'm sorry but... what do you mean you don't know if the earth is flat?

It's not that I'm a huge Whoopi Goldberg fan, it's just that I am so glad that the black woman named Sherry something is not the only black woman on The View. She's funny and all that, but man... my mom had the show on this morning and there she (Sherry something) is, sitting there saying that not only does she not believe at all in evolution - which is bad enough, but in that she's not alone - but that she has no idea if the world is flat or not! She's never thought about it, she says.

I'm all for respecting people's religious beliefs (or, at least some of them) but c'mon. Anyway, at least Whoopi was there to balance her out with a belief in science (as well as and in conjunction with deities) otherwise it would have been conventional wisdom in no time, among the viewers of that show, that "Black people think the world is flat!"

I guess the idea (if they were even considering it) of having Margaret Cho AND Whoopi on the same show sounded just a bit too combustible, even if far more interesting - thus anti-science, anti-sense, but funny, Sherry something.

Quote for... maybe not the day. Maybe not even a good quote, but there you go - it does have the advantage of being true:

"Jena's problem is not that it has proved itself more racist than the rest of the country, but that it has manifested its racism with insufficient subtlety."

Gary Younge, Guardian UK

So, I am bit slow starting off... I should have started doing this a week or so ago, but well, what can you do... I am here now! And kinda blabbery, so this will be uncharacteristically long.

P6 and Sylvia have introduced the site well - and you can always see our featured articles in the various sections by looking at the box at the upper left hand corner of the site - over the past couple of weeks, but in these little open threads I'll put reminders from time to time, as we are just new and our vast audience of readers may not be clear on what we are doing yet.

For one thing, although you might take one look at the title of this post and think, "Man, is she nosy", you would be... actually, quite correct! I am very nosy but this is a good thing! Truly! You see, we want to know what everyone is up to, on their sites, so that we can send people there to read your work, maybe stick around and make comments and, in general, make connections across the... well, I am not sure what we are calling it nowadays... blackosphere? Afrosphere?

Whatever, the question is often asked, 'Where are all the Black folks at?" And we answer! Read on -