Another Challenge For Jay Rosen, et. al.

Yo, Cracker, Get to the Back of the Blog
Blogger Halley Suitt of Halley's Comment threw down this "challenge":

So I'm throwing down a month-long challenge in March, to promote TEN NEW VOICES. I'm asking all the bloggers in the room at Harvard (Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, David Weinberger, Rebecca MacKinnon, Susan Mernit, Shayne Bowman, Ana Marie Cox, Lisa Stone, Chris Willis, Craig Newmark, Bill Gannon) to find TEN NEW VOICES and promote them by writing a post about each as an introduction and blogrolling them.

Here are the rules:

1. They can't be male if they are white;

2. You must have five women and five men;

3. You must have at least three non-Americans.

Jay Rosen of Pressthink responded with his customary lo-o-o-ng discussion and eventually came up with ten blogs.

Now, while this doesn't seem to have generated a lot of interest (only 39 entries come up in a Technorati search for "Ten New Voices"), the underlying assumptions are arrogant, racist, and basically misinformed about the nature of blogs and blogging. It also seeks to perpetuate one of the most pernicious and racially divisive mistakes we have made as a society - racial quotas.

Assumption 1: Blog readers are too stupid to know what interests them.
This is such a patently elitist nanny-state liberal viewpoint that it approaches self-parody.
Assumption 2: Minority and foreign bloggers are being repressed by the man.
How, exactly is this being done? Is there a conspiracy of WASP bloggers exchanging emails to exclude people who don't measure up to their racial standards? Of course not, bloggers link to posts and blogs that interest them.
Assumption 3: Blog readers are too stupid to find blogs on their own.
Of course, this assumption begs the question, "how did the reader find the referring blog in the first place?"

And the biggest assumption of all: bloggers are exactly what they say they are.
And herein lies my challenge to Jay. Let's just say that a blog has been set up, claiming to be written by a black female offering a fresh perspective on world events. Can you find the phoney blog, Jay? You're allowed to recruit anyone you want for help.