Wow, I just noticed how quickly you commented after I posted! It took me longer than that to put the post together ... after deciding what to link to.
I've got another link for you, which might be a better place to start: a themed summary of RaceFail ‘09, which is partly directed at people derailing the discussion (e.g. increasing the noise-to-signal ratio by posting to say "this is all a waste of time"), but makes a good intro for beginners, I hope.
That's vol. 1 of RaceFail09 (MammothFail being vol. 2, unless I've missed something). Before that I wasn't really paying attention, but was tangentially aware via the People of Colour in SF Carnival of the previous series, which (IIRC) started in '06. But chromatic (i.e. non-white or whatever is your locally-acceptable term) fans were around a long time before that, which is the point of the deadbrowalking post.
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I've got another link for you, which might be a better place to start: a themed summary of RaceFail ‘09, which is partly directed at people derailing the discussion (e.g. increasing the noise-to-signal ratio by posting to say "this is all a waste of time"), but makes a good intro for beginners, I hope.
That's vol. 1 of RaceFail09 (MammothFail being vol. 2, unless I've missed something). Before that I wasn't really paying attention, but was tangentially aware via the People of Colour in SF Carnival of the previous series, which (IIRC) started in '06. But chromatic (i.e. non-white or whatever is your locally-acceptable term) fans were around a long time before that, which is the point of the deadbrowalking post.