this is a seminal piece for the blogosphere. DO YOU HEAR THAT! you have just knocked it out of the park with this one.

this in particular is gold :

And BFP asks what happens to women of color? Our silence is presumed. You can't order us to shut up if you don't recognize we're speaking. No matter how much we write, no matter how much we say, no matter how well we say it -- if we don't package it to the palate of mainstream society, our silence is presumed.

which is why our job is to not just to tell these people FUCK YOU, but create the networking and broadcasting structures that will amplify and disseminate our "non-speaking".

this is why we need a national conference of bloggers of color. so people can see our non-speaking, the manufactured silence the gatekeepers have created with their 'netroots' smokes and mirrors.

that's the way to tell these people FUCK YOU, you need us more than we need you because by never having our validation you will never have the absolute power you so crave.