I’m sitting here at the parent’s house about to enjoy my last real day of vacation, but had a few thoughts I wanted to share.  I know I’m late to the party, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I saw the infamous Loren Feldman fiasco via TechCrunch.  While I really don’t want this to be a blog about that, which I think is complete nonsense by the way, I really do want to talk about the bigger issue that it raises in my mind.

More than anything else this situation makes me question why everything must have a label.  I really don’t understand why we must have stuff for black people and white people.  A long time ago a big deal was made to prevent this from happening, see Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, but here we are 50 years later dealing with some of the same issues.

The biggest reason I’m not a fan of “black” organizations, sites, etc. is that I think it makes a double standard.  While I know that organizations like the NAACP were created out of a desperate need to give a voice to a voiceless people, what would we do if there was a National Association for the Advanced of White People.  Or what if there were the White Entertainment Network?  Or maybe even White Enterprise magazine?  Well I think we already know what would happen.  Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition would be all over the news protesting in every manner possible.

The second reason I’m not a fan of separate organizations is that in my opinion many of them are completely inferior to their mainstream competitors.  Need an example, look at the quality of shows on MTV vs BET, and they are owned by the same company.  This is why I don’t think we need “black” blogs or “black” anything else for that matter.

I think the key to success is to simply focus on the quality of content, whatever that may be. If you are going to start a technology blogs, find the best tech bloggers around and that will push you over the top, much more than bringing attention to the fact that all of you are black, green, or anything else.  At the end of the day I believe most of us are more concerned about quality above everything else.  If a group of dogs got together and found a way to deliver compelling content that I’m interested in I would definitely tune in.