Blogging The Great White Way: More Tacit Racism in the Attacks Against Community Activist Alonzo Washington!!!

Like it or not, Alonzo Washington helps to solve murders and serves an important and unpaid role as a facilitator between urban communities and law enforcement officials. In these communities there's a legacy of institutional racism that lingers and continues to inspire distrust of the police while providing fertile ground for "stop snitchin" rhetoric. Encouraging cooperation with authorities and promoting involvement against crime in neighborhoods under violent siege from criminals who are continually bolstering Kansas City's murder rate won't be accomplished by media or Public Relations Campaigns. In the end, it's going to require the commitment of members of these communities to bravely battle violence and murder in the urban core and Alonzo Washington is one of the most strident voices in this effort.

Even better, Mr. Washington has refused to adopt the typical hat in hand, kowtowing, "poor me" rhetoric used by a previous generation of leaders in minority communities. Mr. Washington's public persona is bold, uncompromising and provocative. Judging from his success, it's clear Washington's image speaks to the ethos of folks in the urban core who struggle every day with violence in their community.

Unfortunately, quite a few folks in Kansas City's largely white blogging community have taken umbrage with Washington's style that refuses to bow down to their cultural values.

The latest string of attacks against Washington come from an anony blog called The Bovine Comedy.

Admittedly, some of their criticism of Mr. Washington's grammar are kind of funny if only because any blogger, writer or reporter working for any length of time will accrue an embarrassing number of typos, mistakes and misspellings. Then again, I'm beginning to think there's a reason the term "Grammar Nazi" rings true.

Bottom Line: Mr. Washington's has a solid reputation for helping to solve crime and murders in Kansas City that is unmatched by any of his blogger critics.

And none of this is to claim that criticism of Mr. Washington's tactics isn't appropriate; even in the minority community he has his detractors . . . But it would be a mistake if a brash style or typos negated the record of one of Kansas City's most ardent and helpful voices against crime.

Also, I can't recall when "The Bovine Comedy" did anything to help the urban core . . . No, providing a haven for Pitch writers trying to work out their angst doesn't count.

Nevertheless . . . Blogger Beef is good for business and everybody knows as much. And maybe that's where the real issues of SUPREMACY arise . . .

WHITE BLOGGERS ATTACKING WASHINGTON FOR HIS CRIME FIGHTING EFFORTS ARE MOSTLY JUST STRUGGLING TO GET ATTENTION!!!

Picking a fight is a solid blog promotion strategy . . . Which is just another way that middle-class white people get a free ride from minority communities . . . Other than Truman Sports Complex funding . . . So the joke just might be on anybody who takes blogs or any online publication too seriously. And I would be remiss if I didn't admit that this entire post is, in part, simply an effort to take a slapfight in the Kansas City blogosphere and make it my own . . . Rather than just see a bunch of middle-class white people rob and pillage without so much as buying a condo.