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Jason A. Toney
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Jason Antony Toney (born March 19, 1975 as Jason Antony Saunders) is an American-born web producer and blogger currently based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently a Senior Producer at Disney Online focused on TV, Games, and Music websites. He is probably best-known as the blogger behind negroplease.com, a one-time editor of laist.com (part of the Gothamist Network), and a frequent panelist at SXSW.
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Toney's father, Kevin Toney, is a jazz keyboardist who has recorded as a solo artist and as a founding member of 70s jazz fusion band, The Blackbyrds. His mother, Phyllis Saunders Toney, is a costumer and wardrobe director working primarily with major music tours. Toney was born in Omaha, Nebraska and spent much of his youth in mulitple locations from Oxon Hill, Maryland to Van Nuys, California. He considers the San Fernando Valley his hometown. Toney attended The George Washington University pursuing a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a minor in Creative Writing from 1993 to 1997. While there, he was active in student activities, chairing the Multicultural Affairs Program Board for two years and working as the Diversity Programming Clearinghouse coordinator in the Student Activities office. Toney's 1995 Unity Week program "And Still We Rise" won the multicultural program of the year from NACA.
After College, Toney returned to Los Angeles and working briefly in Student Affairs at Mount St. Mary's College before moving to Bunim-Murray Productions in 1998 as an Information Technologist. Over the next 7 years, Toney would be promoted to Director of Web Development and oversee online content creation for a wide variety of reality television series including The Real World, Road Rules, Making The Band, The Simple Life, and Starting Over.
In 2002, Toney launched a weblog entitled "...Better Left Unsaid" that would soon become known as "Negro Please." Negro Please was a blog focused on pop culture, politics, and technology from a sociocultural perspective. More than that, Negro Please was about identity, identity definition and creation, and race. From 2002 to 2005, Negro Please was one of the most recognizable "Black Blogs" which eventually led to the Blogging While Black panel at 2005's SXSW and subsequent panels in the following years on Identity Blogging.
Toney has also edited laist.com, written for VIBE online, and run the Honolulu Marathon.
Since 2006, Toney has worked at Disney Online.
His two most popular pictures on flickr are his baby picture and a dead rat.
He's scrobbled nearly 90,000 songs on last.fm and by that meter, Björk is his favorite recording artist.
He was a participant in the infamous "I Call Trunk" event, widely considered to be the funniest night in the history of the world.
Toney smells like cheese. ZOMG LOLs[citation needed]
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I confess: I've been reading you since 2003 and I miss negroplease.com.
I also now have a real job :-)