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        <title><![CDATA[Freaknik The Musical: This Is What Your TV Looks Like On Crack]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Freaknik, The Musical. 

Damn.

Double damn.

I am loathe to tell other people who are in the creative arts what they can and cannot do. What is and is not appropriate. What lines should never be crossed, or what lines need to erased between the celebratory and the profane.

And in the case of Freaknik, The Musical, I will have to admit that I am biased in so many ways, but the most important of them is that I was once a Freaknik participant, back in the mid eighties when the crowds numbered only a few hundred, and the partiers were almost all college students from the Atlanta University Center and us hangers on from other metro campuses. It was basically a keg party on a Saturday in a no-name park on the south side of town, a party that if you were lucky would end up at The Mill or the clubhouse at the Club Candlewood apartments.

Nobody had gold grills.

Nobody carried pimp cups.

Nobody walked around with camcorders on night vision.

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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Cisco's New Router Precursor To Web 3.0]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Cisco's New Router Precursor To Web 3.0

My soon-to-be seventy year old father called me about dinner time on Saturday. He was having a problem adding some text to his website, he said, and wanted me to take a look at it. This is one of those rare times in our father-son relationship where he is willing to give up the position of authority and take direct instructions from his progeny. While I was fiddling with the HTML code to get the new text out of the footer of his site and into the body of the page where it belonged, he casually mentioned “I’m thinking about adding a video.” Which means that the announcement Cisco made last night about its new CRS-3 Carrier Routing system, a new generation of internet routers capable of transmitting data at three times the speed of its fastest available model, is getting here right on time.

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        <title><![CDATA[Ralph Reed, Owner Of The Best Political Whorehouse In Georgia, Wants To Be A Congressman]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I really didn't have anything to write about today, until I saw that Ralph Reed was planning to announce his candidacy for Congress tomorrow, Sarah Palin style - from his Facebook account.  

I live three miles from Gwinnett County, where retiring Congressman John Linder was elected 18 years ago, back when "Gwinnettians", as the traffic reporters call them, were mostly white and mostly middle class. 

Now the biggest Asian supermarket in town is in Gwinnett County, along with the biggest Hindu temple in the United States. The intersection of Jimmy Carter Boulevard and Buford Highway, which used to be major commercial corridors in Gwinnett County, looks more like you are in Mexico than Georgia. Gwinnett County is not as solidly Republican as your lazy media analysts will be telling you over the next few months. 

49% of Gwinnett County was black, Asian, or Hispanic in the 2009 census, and something tells me that those numbers will be even larger after the 2010 census numbers are talli]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Media Dereliction Of Duty Gives GOP Free Pass]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Media Dereliction Of Duty Gives GOP Free Pass 

A participant at a Republican National Committee fundraising retreat committed an inexcusable faux pas earlier this week when he forgot to pack a document from the meeting before checking out of his hotel room. The media feeding frenzy over the controversial 72 page PowerPoint presentation has forced the RNC to issue several denials. One of my buddies called me to find out what was going on. “Nothing we didn’t already know,” I told him.

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        <title><![CDATA[The Oscar Award Show Okie Doke]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The Oscar Award ceremony is something I never watch. But I’d been on the internet all day, revamping my blog and turning out a few new posts, and S. seemed to be primed for watching, so I was in.

Maybe it’s the guy in me, but I had no interest in knowing who the designer was of the gown an actress wore. If she was Sarah Jessica Parker, who looks like she needed to hang out in a Dominoes Pizza store for a couple of weeks, it didn’t matter. If she was Jennifer Lopez, whose curves could bring Sir Mix-A-Lot out of retirement to give us “Baby Got Back, Part 2”, it didn’t matter. If she was Sigourney Weaver, who looks so good at whatever age she is that people are probably thinking she is the real Alien, it didn’t matter.

Then S. gave me the okie doke - it turned out she was only watching the Oscar ceremony to kill time until Big Love came on. I was on my own - well, as on my own as me and all my Twitter buddies could be.

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        <title><![CDATA[Urban Prep Seniors Go 107 - 0 In College Acceptances]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard An entire class of African American high school seniors gets into college! All 107 students! 

You would think we would be shouting this from the rooftops, instead of worrying about whether or not a white sorority should win a step contest.  

An entire class of African American high school seniors gets into college! All 107 students! 

I don't know about you, but just looking into the faces of the young men in the picture, I will have to believe that a certain brown skinned president of these United States of America may have had something to do with this, even if it was as little as mentally spurring on the guys graduating at the bottom of their class to hang in there and follow up on those applications.

An entire class of African American high school seniors gets into college! All 107 students! 

Maybe they figured out, as a collective, that they really have more in common with President Barack Obama's story than they do with Lil' Wayne or Gucci Mane. That they have a better chanc]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Sign Of The Times: John Edgar Wideman Will Self Publish Next Book]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Sign Of The Times: John Edgar Wideman Will Self Publish Next Book 

John Edgar Wideman has always been one of my literary heroes, from the top of his prematurely bald head, a smooth brown dome towering six feet five inches into the air, down to the bottom of his oversized feet. In fact, it was his clean cut, square jawed face visage and clear eyed pose replicated inside the back cover of his paperback books that spurred me on back when I used to harbor dreams of being a literary star myself.

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        <title><![CDATA[Tavis Smiley Gets Posterized By The Black Community]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Tavis Smiley used to be a community activist, but now he just plays one on TV.

I'm not exactly sure what the slang usage of "posterized" means these days - a quick spin around Google pulls up a lot of basketball links, and stories of guys getting dunked over, so I figure it must refer to getting manhandled in public. Or letting someone complete a dramatic shot while up in your face - "face!"- is what it was called when I was growing up. 

But I knew while I was riding down the street yesterday that the gravel-throated greasy sounding guy in some rap song who yells out "git posterized!" sounded the way I felt about Mr. Smiley - like he deserves nothing less than a monster kick in the ass from the collective foot of the damn "black community" he crows so much about.

If you care about the black community so much, Tavis, why the hell are you publishing a book by Robert "I Pee On Naked Underage BLACK Girls After I Sleep With Them" Kelly? In case you are reading this, Mr. Smiley, that is]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Can Alternative Political Parties Quench the Nation's Political Thirst?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Can Alternative Political Parties Quench the Nation's Political Thirst?

In the last twelve months we’ve seen two new political organizations hit the nationwide scene with an intensity and a geographic presence unheard of since the sixties. Unlike the Libertarian Party, which grew through more traditional methods during the seventies and eighties, the memberships in the Tea Party and the Coffee Party have virtually exploded practically overnight. Are these new unions of Americans who are frustrated and upset at the actions of their government actually committed to the arduous task of making fundamental changes in the way Washington works, or are they simply interested in giving what we already have a new paint job? 

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        <title><![CDATA[The Brown Man's Mother Goes Back To College]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I haven't been able to get my mother on the phone yet tonight to talk to her about the proceedings at her induction into the Half Century Club for graduates of Benedict College. It is probably because she is on the phone with her sisters, whose SIXTIETH college reunion has either just taken place or will be happening soon. 

This is waaay back -- before the seatbelt was mandatory, before unleaded gas was popular, before King and Malcolm X and John Kennedy had each taken a bullet for the human race, before Pampers and airbags and cassette tapes and VCR's -- before practically everything that you see now existed, if you are under forty years of age.

I guess I'll get to talk to her a little later -- actually, this post is in its own way a method for me to kill some time until she and her sisters get off the phone, but they are talkers. In fact, we are all talkers, the way some people are chain smokers, or binge drinkers, so I am sure that I need to keep writing, to keep thinking up a fe]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Coffee, Tea, Or Me]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard If Americans keep dreaming up these new political movements, I might have to become a political rapper and put what I've got to say about them to some beats with rhyming lyrics so you can keep them all straight. The latest one is the Coffee Party, started by a filmmaker who -- no surprise here, since its the theme of the moment -- was "frustrated" by the dearth of options on the political scene for people like her.

I don't know how I feel about this Coffee Party yet, but I do believe that the first one of these groups that figures out how to be INclusive instead of EXclusive and keeps its fruitcakes and fanatics under wraps might have be able to displace one of the Big Two in a way the Libertarian party or the Green Party never had a chance at doing.  

This kind of reminds me of college -- I went to a college with a small black enrollment in the south about twenty years ago, back when majority schools were first admitting sizable numbers of black students. We had a black house, a bl]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Freedom Through Speech Radio Show TONIGHT At 8pm]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The RIPPA, Max Reddick, Fungke Blak Chik are the hosts of Freedom Through Speech Radio. RIPPA is on my blog roll with The Intersection Of Madness And Reality. I thought I had Max Reddick's blog, soulbrother v.2, on my list already, but he wasn't there, so I've added his site and [fungke][blak][chik]'s blog of the same name today

Their F.T.S.R. shows are usually a riot, and this week, the Brown Man himself will be their guest. Tonight's main topic is "The Black Agenda: Black Leadership in the Obama Age". It should dovetail nicely with the series on race I did this week at Big Think, "Pockets Of Darkness, Pockets Of Light". 

Coming after an afternoon that I plan to spend at the Highland Cigar Company, who knows what might happen.  

This program is uncensored - maybe its the "no rules, all exceptions" motto -  so be forewarned, but the two times I've listened to it, I heard less profanity than you get on the Bill Maher Show.

 

Freedom Through Speech  

Freedom through Speech Radio]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Who Controls America's Racial Narrative?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Who Controls America's Racial Narrative?

Who are these people in the media who tell us what is important – who decide what the narrative is for the rest of our national tribe? Do they really speak for the citizenry of the nation, or is it possible that they succumb to their own personal agendas when selecting how to portray America’s minority populations? 

Why is this important?  Because these are not only the people who hold the microphones, these are the people who frame the shots, who schedule the guests, who write the questions, who provide the feedback, who create, at the very heart of any news organizations, not only the basic narratives into which they attempt to fit all the news they see fit to print or broadcast, but the language itself, coining and promulgating the very terms which we in the public end up parroting to express ourselves.

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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Why "Post-Racial" Is "Post-Rational"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Why "Post-Racial" Is "Post-Rational"

We want to be "post-racial," the media tells you, if you read the newspaper or watch TV. We want to "transcend race" is a phrase you have heard ever since Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. But who is this "we", and why is this urge to be "post-racial" -- to "get past race" -- to "transcend race" -- so important all of a sudden?

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        <title><![CDATA[A Wild Bison, Desiree Rogers, and David Patterson Walk Into A Bar...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I said I was going to post something other than a link to something I've written for another site today - then all hell broke loose.  We've got wild bison running the streets here in the ATL, although I hope they don't run into anybody around here who's got a little road rage - might be an I-20 barbecue in the making.  

We've got Desiree Rogers resigning from the Obama administration, which means she was told "don't let the door knob hit you in the ass on the way out." Reminds me of a boss I once had. "This isn't working out," I told him during a review. "You should have fired me a while ago." I still think she got a raw deal, but the good thing about DC is the propensity for White House staffers who are dismissed to fail upwards. 

With any luck, she'll be a VP at a New York fashion house by the time the summer collections hit the stores right after Easter. 

We've got Governor David Paterson announcing that he is not going to run for re-election after his top aide resigns behind th]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pockets Of Darkness, Pockets Of Light]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Pockets Of Darkness, Pockets Of Light from Kris Broughton on Vimeo.
[I know, you saw this yesterday, but me and YouTube aren't getting along right now - impossible to edit a video there once you upload it - so I am trying out Vimeo - and I forgot to put a link to the video in the post for the people who get my RSS feed. I'll have some fresh commentary a little later today.]
Black History Month is almost over. 

I really haven't done anything special around here to commemorate it, probably because this blog is written from an African American perspective.

But my editors at Big Think liked my "Racial Discrimination: The Reality Show" video, so I took the opportunity to run a mini-series on a few topics this week as a way to wind up a month we usually spend watching documentaries and patting ourselves on the back.  'Pockets Of Darkness, Pockets Of Light: To Be Brown And Not Brown In The New Millennium" contains provocative, challenging pieces that defy conventional wisdom.

I hope the wr]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Black History Month is almost over. 

I really haven't done anything special around here to commemorate it, probably because this blog is written from an African American perspective.

But my editors at Big Think liked my "Racial Discrimination: The Reality Show" video, so I took the opportunity to run a mini-series on a few topics this week as a way to wind up a month we usually spend watching documentaries and patting ourselves on the back.  'Pockets Of Darkness, Pockets Of Light: To Be Brown And Not Brown In The New Millennium" contains provocative, challenging pieces that defy conventional wisdom.

I hope the writing lives up to the promise of this promo video. 

The first post, "Racial Discrimination: The Reality Show" is already up. The video is the same but the commentary is new.

The other three will run between now and Sunday.

Enjoy them.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["Change" Costs Money - Why Congress Is Like A Strip Club]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I spent way too much time last week poring over the numbers of the Congressional Black Caucus and its affiliated charities. But in trying to give the story more context than the Two Erics who wrote the article for the New York Times were able to muster, I did come away with two things:

More than $13 BILLION dollars were spent by lobbyists on Congress between 2004 and 2008.

Only $55 MILLION dollars were collected by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and CBC related charities between 2004 and 2008.

that lead me to two conclusions:

Number One - the Two Erics should have been carnival barkers instead of reporters or the terrible financial analysts they showed themselves to be - $55 million dollars is less than one half of one percent of all the bribe money that changed hands during the same period.

Number Two - Change will cost money. For all those folks out here in the blogosphere who marched and called and voted for Barack Obama and now think he is a traitor, a turncoat of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vernon Hunter, The Real Patriot In IRS Attack, Was From My Hometown]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I've got a million other things to do today, but I went to bed angry and I woke up mad about the lack of an outpouring of heartfelt compassion for dead IRS employee Vernon Hunter. Actually, "angry" isn't the right word. I'm upset.  I'm incensed. I am in a foul mood. To put a finer point on it, I am in a "put a match to gasoline soaked cracker-assed crackers who dare to utter one word of praise for Joe Stack" kind of mood today about the lack of press coverage of Vernon Hunter, or any real information on his life, or any concerted effort by any media to talk to his family members. 

It wasn't until I went to my hometown this weekend in South Carolina that I realized Mr. Hunter was from the very same place. I have been stewing ever since. I wrote an article about it at Big Think.com, where I do my thing on my own media platform of sorts on my blog "Resurgence". It wasn't enough. It wasn't until I read jimstaro's diary "Son Speaks Out"  this morning that my fingers started getting itchy a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Vernon Hunter Real Patriot In Attack On IRS]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Vernon Hunter Real Patriot In Attack On IRS

I made a quick trip back to Orangeburg, S.C. this weekend to see my mother, whom I’ve dubbed "the Bionic Woman" because she is recuperating from her second hip replacement surgery. My father handed me the local newspaper this morning and said "the man who was killed by the plane that crashed into the IRS building in Texas was from Orangeburg."

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Mortgage Loan Officers Get New Rules

A lot has changed in the year and a half since I closed my last mortgage loan as a loan officer. New regulations regarding the relationship between appraisers and lenders, new lending guidelines, and a new system requiring individual loan officers to be licensed in every state have completely revamped the broker side of the mortgage business…

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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Google Settlement: "Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Google Settlement: "Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose" 

It seems Google is trying to build the world’s biggest digital library. They have digitized 12 million books so far, but want access to many more. The fairness hearing before United States District Judge Denny Chin of Manhattan was wrapped up on Friday as 26 parties, as well as the United States Justice Department, offered oral arguments for and against the proposed Google lawsuit settlement…

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge It really doesn't matter how many times Tiger Woods says "I apologize" or how contrite he may appear at his tightly scripted and showcased public statement tomorrow.  He will always be a shadow of...

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        <title><![CDATA[No Mo' Saving Grace]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge Damn, no more Ugly Betty, no more Saving Grace.  Thank goodness for Netflix.  Television sucks.

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        <title><![CDATA[I Am Not Amused]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I am not amused.

I actually felt something come over me yesterday when I saw Wolf Blitzer breathing anxiously into his microphone as he wondered why the eight missionaries being held under suspicion of child trafficking violations who were released from the custody of the Haitian government yesterday were quickly spirited away from the island in a U.S. government plane. 

It was as if all the inequities, all the preferential treatment, all the institutionalized racism I have been researching for a mini-series on race and perspective had come to a boil just behind my eyes. It was a sudden throbbing pressure just behind my sinus cavity that seemed to ratchet itself up a notch with every connection that popped into my head between what I was seeing on the screen about the privilege of whiteness, what I have been reading about the privilege of whiteness, and what we all already know but willfully choose to ignore that makes racial inequality at once so insidious and so apparent that root]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The Brown Man on is on YouTube.

It's hard to believe that less than a month ago I made my first video. Essentially a narrated slide show of public domain images that illustrate a piece I wrote last month about the flawed storyline the media seemed to be pursuing in their portrayal of Haiti, this five minute piece hit a milestone yesterday, clocking its 2,000th viewing since I posted it.
  
I am glad I was able to help in my own way to contribute to a better understanding of the actual circumstances which predate the horrific calamity unfolding in Haiti.

So where are we now?

Or did you send one of those text message donations a few weeks ago and decide to "leave it to the professionals?" Did you get tired of the dizzying display of poverty and amputations and decide to change the channel?

Other than a few faint grumblings from somewhere about retiring Haiti's debt, a media feeding frenzy over the fake missionary scam artist and friends who need to be under the jail, but are curren]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge Apparently Michael Jordan is trying to purchase majority interest in the Charlotte Bobcats. While even a ravenous, brain dead zombie would be better for this team than current owner Bob Johnson, I'm...

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge Damn....read the fine print folks.  I have a little imaginary house I don't have in student loans, but damn!  What a racket!

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        <title><![CDATA[Has The Golden Rule Been Irrevocably Tarnished?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I was talking to a friend of mine the other day when he mentioned his three year old son. “The other day he told me, 'daddy, I gotta get that money.' What I want to know is, how come my momma didn’t tell me this when I was his age?” 

My friend is a devout Christian, who not only attends church regularly but is an active member of the congregation. His parents and his wife’s parents instilled in both of them practically from birth the tenets of the Golden Rule – "do unto others as they do unto you" – as well as a healthy respect for the laws of the land. Producing decent, well mannered adults who contributed to society and honored their family was the goal of their parents, of practically all our parents.

But my friend’s lament was a sentiment that at face value had me castigating him. "Your parents were right. And you need to keep taking that boy to Sunday school. Keep telling him why he needs to do the right thing even when it looks wrong. Otherwise you will be raisin]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Museum For Winningest College Football Coach Eddie Robinson Opens]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Museum For Winningest College Football Coach Eddie Robinson Opens

I grew up less than ten miles from my father’s alma mater, South Carolina State University, so when football season rolled around, many of his college buddies would tend to congregate at our house any weekend there was a home game. A few of them had played football for the historically black college back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, which gave them an endless supply of war stories to draw upon as they handicapped each game. There was a certain reverence, though, when they spoke about the annual contest against Grambling State University …

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        <title><![CDATA[Professor Tracey Recommends "Bronson"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge Bronson is off the hook.  Tom Hardy is awesome.  This flick does go a bit overboard in making a anti-hero out of the real life nutty as fruitcake prisoner Charles Bronson, but he is quite a character...

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge My long-time readers and good friends know what I think of "Weird" Harold Ford Jr.    I can't shake the icky feeling I get every time I see him.  Dude is creepy period.  It always seems to me that he...

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Everyday Miracles: Can We Live Without The Advances Of Modern Medicine?

I watched President Bill Clinton speak to the press while standing outside of his house last night, just one day after doctors inserted stents in the arteries around his heart. I spoke to my mother last evening, who is entering her second week of therapy after having her second hip replacement surgery in the last six months. I thought about my eighty-nine year old grandmother, who underwent a surgical procedure two weeks ago and was moving around her kitchen the next day as if nothing had happened. These advances in modern medicine, as amazing as they are, have had a tremendous impact on our healthcare delivery system’s costs.

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Elizabeth Warren: "What Part Of 'We Bailed You Out' Don't You Get?"

I like idea of having someone like Elizabeth Warren, who is the head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, watch our financial system. But her advice to the Obama Administration about Wall Street was largely ignored. Now she is predicting that commercial lending woes will severely inhibit the little bit of momentum our economy seems to be gaining. Is Warren just window dressing for the White House? Could she just be a source for earnest sounding quotes and media friendly photo ops whenever someone starts wondering if the White House is working for Wall Street?

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard These people on TV keep talking about the same old things the same old ways.  I’ve been hearing the same political talking points since I can remember. Neither party is immune to this overuse of recycled campaign rhetoric, but the Republican chestnuts – lower taxes, lower deficit, less government, less regulation -- are starting to sound like a line in a song, they are repeated so often.  

But what do they really mean? What are they really saying?

Our government took in 2.524 trillion dollars in 2008.  We spent 2.983 trillion.


Our government took in 2.105 trillion dollars in 2009.  We spent 3.518 trillion.

Cutting spending in either of those years to equal what came in the door would actually cut back on a lot of corporate welfare, and practically decimate the entire defense industry. But more important than that, balancing the annual budget would not reduce the trillions we have in long term debt by one dollar.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge Things have been hectic with the gig, the new crib, and the personal life, so the time and energy for blogging just hasn't been there.  I've missed being in the mix, but I'm back and ready to rumble....

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge Sade is back and Professor Tracey is so very glad.  I've never understood the Sade haters, always saying she can't sing, but steadily buying her album and snapping up concert tickets. Even my mama is...

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge I have never heard a John Mayer song.  The dude never appealed to me.  He's just another generic wannabe blue-eyed soul singer, nothing special.  His regular dumb ass comments in the media didn't...

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge and I was reminded that Hedy Lamarr was a complete bad ass in that flick!  Old school actresses beat the hell out of these chicks that think they are actresses today!

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Aunt Jemima's Revenge Black folks should know about Henrietta Lacks, but we don't.  Educate yourself.  Read here, here, here, and stop being damn cheap and buy a book!  You can cover Black History and Women's History...

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I suffered through the Tea Party coverage this weekend like the rest of you, but I watched the speech Sarah Palin gave to the conventioneers live – after listening to pundits describe her previous efforts as if they were deaf, dumb and blind, I had to see it for myself.  

I was not disappointed. 

"The events surrounding the Christmas day plot reflect the kind of thinking that led to September 11th. The threat then, as the "USS Cole" was attacked, our embassies were attacked, it was treated like an international crime spree not like an act of war. We are seeing that mindset again settle into Washington again. 


That scares me for my children, for your children. Treating this as a mere law enforcement matter places our country at great risks because that is not how radical Islamic extremists look at this. They know we are at war. To win that war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."

Sarah Palin
Speech excerpt from Tea Party Convention
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The Brown Man is back on Youtube.

The blog post I re-posted from July last week, titled "Racial Discrimination: The Reality Show" has joined the rest of my recent pieces on the Brown Man Thinking Hard channel on YouTube.

Perspective is one of the items that is missing from the national conversation on race. It is the lack of interest in fully appreciating the African American point of view when it comes to racial issues that has so many Americans clamoring for a "post-racial America", where they can conveniently ignore or sidestep many of the truths that Americas history of discrimination contains.

It's had me kind of hot lately.

So you know me - I had to say something about it.

And since I know that the real deal about the civil rights movement was this -- despite all the blood, sweat and tears that went into the movement for decades, it wasn't until the pictures of the viscous brutality being perpetrated against black Americans by the citizens of this nation began to circulate]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I'm sitting here today, tooling around the DailyKos site, reading a few diaries because its too damn cold to go anywhere (yeah, I'm in Georgia, but anything under 60 degrees might as well be the Ice Ages to me). 

As I read through a diary titled "Honestly, I don't know if I can&nbsp; remain with the Democrats if they fail on healthcare", I wondered if my fictional political consulting group, BlackSheep Political Consultants, wasn't onto something yesterday when it jokingly suggested to Democratic incumbents that they all need to run for Congress as if they are the black candidate.

Maybe those of you in the progressive political camp who are faltering need to rethink your perspective.

Maybe you need to think about the fight for healthcare reform the way black people fought for the right to fully participate in American society - a struggle that took over a hundred years, a struggle that had its ups and downs, its naysayers and malcontents, as well as many, many setbacks along the wa]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: See Jerry Draw: Jerry Pinckney Wins Top Children's Book Illustrator Award]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


See Jerry Draw: Jerry Pinckney Wins Top Children's Book Illustrator Award

I can recall my very first reader like it was yesterday -- the phrase "See Spot run" and the image of a galloping dog with floppy ears is indelibly engraved in my memory. The pictures in these primers were as important as the words, helping to anchor in my young mind the meaning of each grouping of vowels and consonants. Last month, Jerry Pinckney became the first individual African American illustrator to win the Caldecott Medal, the American Library Association’s highest honor, for his adaptation of one of Aesop's fables, The Lion and the Mouse.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard "Baa baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir -- three bags full."

One of my buddies called me the other day. 

"Man, we should become political consultants," he said. "You think we could start a firm?"

I don't know the first thing about political consulting from a "what do you do everyday" perspective, or how you would go about billing your clients, so I said, "that sounds good, but think about it -- we don't know anybody on the national level, where they will buy any old bullshit, who might recommend us, and we can't deliver anything tangible like votes or big donations on a local level -- it just doesn't sound like it would work."

We shot the breeze about a few other things, and then I hung up the phone. It was pretty late, so I clicked up TweetDeck to take a tour around the Twitterverse before I went to bed.

The hashtag "#demonsheep" kept showing up so much in my stream of followers that I finally tweeted to one of my Twitter buddies who usually has reliable infor]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Michael Vick Project: What I Saw]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I'll be back to politics in the morning -- right now, I will have to say that the verdict on The Michael Vick Project documentary is, "it's all good."

Someone sent me a review of the show that was in the Washington Post earlier today. Now I see why I have to keep writing this blog.  I don't know what Hank Steuver, the Washington Post staff writer who suffered through the half hour episode, expected to see -- maybe a pledge from Mike that all of his future earnings go to animal rights shelters? Maybe an Academy Award worthy performance of pathos and some sort of overly heartfelt confessional moment that would have me ready to throw up?

I don't know Michael Vick at all -- have never met him in person, never been any closer to him than the club level seats at a Falcons game in the Georgia Dome -- but to try to translate the actions of a man who grew up in the squalor and despair of the Newport News projects for Midwestern sensibilities is a losing proposition from the getgo.

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        <title><![CDATA["A Life In Progress": Mike Vick On BET Tonight]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I guess I should be looking forward to the plethora of civil rights documentaries and black history tributes that will be on TV this month, but I have to confess that I will be among those who watch the Micheal Vick reality show/documentary on BET tonight.

Why watch Mike?

Because I never gave up on him as a human being.

Because despite the trials he's been through personally and professionally after serving two years in prison, he still has that spark of life in his eyes, that flicker of possibility that can lead him to bigger things than being a quarterback in the National Football League.

But mostly because there are very few black men in today's society with his background who have the power to get the world to examine the "why" of who he is, and by extension, who too many of our young black men are, most of whom don't rise to be professional anythings.

We've studied, measured, tested, interpolated and hypothesized ad infinitum about young black men who seem to be trapped in a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think:Greensboro Four Commemorated By International Civil Rights Museum]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Greensboro Four Commemorated By International Civil Rights Center & Museum

My mother was a black college student back in the late fifties, when African Americans were protesting segregation and joining together in protest marches all across the country. So when the documentaries begin to air in February during Black History Month, she often shares a favorite story.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


To Build An Economy 

In the middle of a vigorous political debate last night, the topic of the economy came up. The man I was having this discussion with, a former corporate executive who had opened his own small business here in the Atlanta area, asked me whether or not I thought the president was doing anything to help the economy. “Have you ever read the story To Build A Fire by Jack London?”

It was obvious from the look on the man's face that he was puzzled by my answer.

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Blogosphere Buzzes After GOP Retreat Q&A With President Obama

The political blogosphere was abuzz yesterday after President Barack Obama addressed the House Republican Caucus meeting in Baltimore. The hour and half session also featured a segment where the president took questions from the audience. It was broadcast live on C-SPAN, but the video is so popular,it has overwhelmed C-SPAN servers. Shorn of the usual pre-speech analysis and running commentary by the news media, the event brought to mind an idea of what the Lincoln-Douglas debates must have been like.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Watching the cable news pundits on TV make their obligatory references to African Americans, race, and racism these last few days, many of them as casually as if they were checking off a "to do" list at the grocery store, I wondered - what actually goes through the mind of someone who is NOT a descendant of a historically oppressed minority when they think about discrimination?

Even if you have watched Roots and the PBS specials on Jim Crow and the network specials on the civil rights movement, it was and is more of an "outsider looking in" kind of experience if you weren't black.  American culture has been very good at de-emphasizing this part of our history, transmogrifying these human horror stories into a type of temporary racial exile, its effects to be sloughed off as easily as a non-slave descendant forgets about a traffic ticket they've paid.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The best moment during the commentary after President Barack Obama's State Of The Union speech last night was during an exchange on the Larry King Show between Hill Harper and two Republican political strategists.  Larry King had opened the door for the GOP operatives with a softball question -- what did they think about the president's message? The two practically began talking over each other, they were so intent on getting their standard talking points across, as if they got paid for every negative phrase they said on the air. 

Harper, who was live in the studio, reared back in his chair, raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips, as if he were saying "are you finished yet?" with his eyes. When King turned to Harper for a response, Harper looked coolly into the camera and asked the two, "if you don't like what the president is saying, what are your solutions?"

The twosome responded by continuing their original line of attack.

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The Democratic Party Is Now The Party Of Obama

I watched the State Of The Union address with my Twitter buddies. It was fun! I am getting to like TweetDeck,this latest of time wasting devices. In some ways, it was like I invited a big crowd over for a watch party, but didn't have to clean up afterwards. 

I was able to share comments with my own followers while keeping an eye on a larger cross section of the country by typing "#sotu" into a search column. If you think about it, I basically had a focus group of 500 people whose comments were scrolling by me all night. CNN had 25 people in a room twisting a dial. I think I got better information from my group, even with the built in bias it has towards Obama.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The Brown Man on is on Youtube.

Again.

The blog post I wrote yesterday titled "Supreme Court Brings Frankenstein To Life" was supposed to go "straight to video", as they say in the movie business, but it is a lot of work to write and put together one of these in a day. You can find the original post at Brown Man Thinking Hard. It was a great way to bleed off some of the outrage I felt at the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission last week. 

But after seeing so many other comments these last few days from people who feel helpless, or understand this to now be written in stone, I had to say something. I had to let the vast majority of us who are not lawyers, and those of us who aren't familiar with how the Supreme Court works, that not only is the nation's highest court capable of being fallible, like the rest of us human beings -- it is also capable of being corrected.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Why is this Supreme Court decision about the Citizens United VS. Federal Election Commission case bothering me so much?

My brother, who has gone back to school to be a lawyer, once told me that one of his professors described the Supreme Court as “America’s council of wise men”. It really wasn’t a court in the normal sense at all, he said, because it was not bound by precedent or law. 

Which is one of the reasons why we struggle so mightily with Supreme Court confirmations these days if we feel that a nominee is overly biased in one direction or another. 

Because the reality is, there are times when the Supreme Court, as wise as its members may be, renders legal opinions that are flat out wrong. As august as this body is, it is still prone, even now, to have the occasional lapse in judgment, to take the proverbial wrong turn. Its not like the Supreme Court hasn't done it before.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:

How Could A Corporation Be My Constitutional Equal?

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Oscar Wilde  
If I may borrow a word from this Oscar Wilde quote, I believe the Supreme Court has malevolently bludgeoned the distinction between living breathing human beings and the convenient legal fictions we have relied on up until now to allow corporations to assume a state known as "corporate personhood."

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I know the last big playoff games are tonight, so if the Vikings/Saints game is a blowout, or you don't watch football, I will be on the radio this evening with Sean Yoes, a senior reporter at The Afro American.  He is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Baltimore's WEAA-FM (88.9 FM), which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m.


You can click this link and push the "Listen Live" button at the top of the page to hear the show. my segment comes on at 8:30pm.

This week, we talked about the earthquake in Haiti and the mainstream media portrayal of its citizens here in the U.S.

Do you think the dominant narrative you see on the nightly news relies too much on traditional stereotypes, or do you think the media has drawn the right picture of Haitian earthquake survivors?

Find out what Sean Yoes and I think tonight on the show.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:

Separating The Piggy Bank From The Casino

It looks like Alan Volcker’s pleas are finally being heard in the Obama Administration.  Volcker, a past Fed Chairman, has been advocating for a tighter rein on financial institutions since Barack Obama took office. But other voices, including those of Larry Summers, ex-Harvard University president and the current Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, dominated the early discussions about the strategy the White House pursued in an attempt to solve the banking crisis that threatened to cripple the country. Only now have Volcker’s ideas, described by one blogger as "separating the piggy bank from the casino" been taken seriously enough to be advanced as the latest proposal to reform our nation’s banks.
   
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I just finished taping a radio show with my man Sean Yoes of NPR affiliate WEAA in Baltimore, the first one we've done this year, that focuses on the media narrative and how the Haitian earthquake is being portrayed.  You can hear it this Sunday night at 8:00pm by clicking the "Listen Live" button on the WEAA website. My segment will come on at the 8:30 mark.

After re-reading my pieces on this and the latest news from Haiti to get ready for the show, I needed to decompress after having to think about all the victims of this horrific tragedy. I ran into a post at the Daily Kos featuring a FOX News poll about the 2012 election if it were run today that did the trick - your president, it seems, after all that has gone on the last few weeks, still has the inside track to get re-elected. 

The bonus of this post was a medley of photos from Obama's first year in the White House.

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