A look at Field Nego - A prominent member of the AfroSpear

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A look at Field Nego - A prominent member of the Afroshpere

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MSNBC, NPR, The New Republic, regional papers and now national papers like the Los Angeles Times are profiling AfroSpear and Afrosphere bloggers. 

Take a sneek peak:

Attorney Wayne Bennett doesn't make waves at his job; he makes peace. As a special master in this city's family court system, he has used his deep, measured voice -- touched with the lilt of his native Jamaica -- to quell hundreds of arguments over contested child support payments.  When Bennett gets home and starts blogging, however, an alter ego emerges: The Field Negro. On his website called field-negro.blogspot.com, he lashes out at commentator Bill O'Reilly as an "ignorant racist self-delusional buffoon." President Bush is "the frat boy," and "the man 'who doesn't care about black people' " -- a nod to rapper Kanye West's comments of 2005. Black activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are "pimping the 'man' in the name of civil rights."

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