discrimination liberation

The reading that I did was on Stephen Knadlers “E-racing”. The reading was basically about how most people try to complicate the idea of race, sex, and gender on the internet creating this digital divide. Although the ones who seem to ignore this stereotype seem to be the ones who are most liberated in the end.
Stephen Knader, shows how African American women at Spelman College have decided to ignore the constraints and precautions placed on putting yourself out there on the internet. What these women do is have the opportunity to make personal blogs about themselves on the internet. They have the ability to finally express themselves and they take full advantage of it. They do not worry about factors and discrimination that usually take place in the workplace or school setting. These women still believe that you can represent yourself on these personal profile sites. He shows that these women believe that in school setting and in the work place that have to disguise their true personalities and characteristics. He shows that many African American women feel uncomfortable talking in Ebonics and just being themselves in the everyday public setting. However, with these personal profile sites, these women can express who they are. The African American women can finally show their “blackness” to the world. Knadler describes a women who feels free to describe and express who she is on the internet, “When LaChia says that she wants someone to “feel her writing,” she is saying that women’s e-spaces are not about a postmodernist play of identities, but about finding the ideal community where she no longer has to explain or apologize for her “Blackness” and where others understand her as she understands herself” (Knadler 236). Knadler then describes how these women know there are implications for what you post on the internet, “they know that there is no such thing as “free-writing” online because everything that they write has implications for how they are perceived as racial subjects. In contrast to the inhibited or silenced white woman who needs to be unshackled from her socialized restraints, middle-class African-American women often feel the pressure to code switch, to police themselves against acting “Black, Black” and to express only one part of their carefully negotiated hybrid identities” (Knadler 237).
The point is, these women still make online posts. They still voice their opinions. After all the adversity they still would make posts including AAVE features. These women truly believe the internet was a place to be free, and to ignore the haters.