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        <title><![CDATA[Red Tails Most Expensive After School Special Ever Made]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Red Tails is without a doubt the most expensive ABC after  school special ever made.  I went home after seeing it and immediately  downloaded A Soldier’s Story from Amazon to flush Red Tail’s  god awful dialogue out of my head. I guess I’m supposed to be pleased  that George Lucas poured over $100 million dollars of his own money into  this project when Hollywood studios kept vetoing his fictional  depiction of the exploits of a squadron from the all black 332nd Fighter Group.  I am certainly happy that the actors found paying jobs in an industry  that has very few roles for black men. If the Oscars had a category for  “historical feature film about the military with the least amount of  profanity”, this movie would win hands down.

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        <title><![CDATA[Will Angry White Man Performance Win Gingrich GOP Nomination?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard S. rarely says much about current events when we get up in the  morning. But today she was visibly agitated over the visual of the  group, comprised largely of white men, who stood up and clapped when  Newt Gingrich angrily put the CNN debate moderator in his place last  night. If Gingrich’s goal was to be the only topic of conversation going  into the South Carolina GOP primary on Saturday, then he performed  beyond expectations. His televised histrionics, which will be played and  replayed endlessly over the next two days, might even help him win the  South Carolina primary.

But is being the angry white man in the race enough of an asset for Gingrich to win the nomination?

Will white Republican women identify with Callista Gingrich, who carried on a six year affair with  her now husband when he was married to someone else, as their idea of a  future First Lady? Will conservative women who have been replaced by  trophy wives after helping their husbands stay afloat during their l]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Field]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. The on-campus residencies at MACS are seven to ten days each semester. &nbsp;During each residency we experience the world of cultural sustainability through incredible field trips. &nbsp;This week in our Models of &nbsp;Social Entrepreneurship course we visited the Affinity Lab in Washington, DC. &nbsp;to research the intricacies of co-working social enterprises. &nbsp;Affinity Lab is the innovative brainchild of Phillipe Chetrit, Berit Oskey and Charles Planck. As a creative membership model, Affinity presents brilliant solutions to issues that start ups and small social enterprises may inure. &nbsp;It is a flexible blend of shared office space, incubators, and an entrepreneurial club. &nbsp;Phillipe explained, "the space is always about the people." Other key dimensions are collaborative programming, communications tools, and space design. &nbsp;Currently the 10-year old Lab hosts 65 members.My colleagues and I benefitted from engaging and stimulating conversations with Ian Fisk of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Media Gives GOP Race Baiting A Free Pass]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Rick Santorum gives me the impression that if he was on Mars, campaigning for the Martian vote, he would still  find a way to blame black Americans for taking the tax dollars of white  Americans. I don’t know what kind of constituencies Santorum is used to  representing, but out here in real America, nobody is buying his “I must have said ‘blah’”  bullshit. If you’re going to race bait, Mr. Santorum, be a man about it  like your opponent Newt Gingrich. After all the racial fear mongering  of Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and the 70’s version of Ron Paul last  week, it took a couple of doses of the James Brown classic “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” for me to get my equilibrium back.

But why do these guys do this and think they can get away with it?  Because the news media is full of punks and pontificators who heartily  embrace this notion of a public figure “walking back” a statement, a  handy Media Mulligan that allows these candidates to make all]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Iowa Caucus Relevant Without Minority Participants? | Resurgence | Big Think]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The America I live in is not 90% white. The America I live in does not have more hogs than people. The American I live in does not have 60% of the electorate who describe themselves as evangelical Christians.  While I can understand the media’s need for nostalgia, and our own  American reverence for rituals, I have never quite been able to discern  why the political preferences of Iowans should have any relevance for  the rest of us.  “The prominence and first-in-nation position of Iowa and New  Hampshire do elevate white primary voters over non-white ones, and in  both parties,” says Thomas Schaller, a professor of political science at  University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Why (Very White) Iowa and New Hampshire Mean So Much in Politics   READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT BIG THINKIs Iowa Caucus Relevant Without Minority Participants? | Resurgence | Big Think]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kwanzaa]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. Practicing cultural sustainability through Seven Communal PrinciplesUmoja - UnityKujichagulia - Self DeterminationUjima - Collective Work and ResponsibilityUjamaa - Cooperative EconomicsNia - PurposeKuumba - CreativityImani - FaithWhat Kwanzaa Is All About: MyFoxPHILLY.com]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[House GOP Too Stupid To Quit While They Were Ahead]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Unrestrained obstructionism as a political strategy practically  guarantees that the epitaph on the GOP’s 2012 presidential aspirations  will read “too stupid to quit while they were ahead.” Is John Boehner  serious about not holding a vote on tax cut extensions for the middle class  because he thinks it might pass? Can House Majority Leader Eric Cantor,  the Republican who has completely and utterly failed at his primary  function—keeping the party as united as possible when holding roll call votes—see that he stands a good chance of replacing Ebenezer Scrooge as the epitome of a cold-hearted miser on the eve of Christmas?

Every conservative in Congress these days claims they are either a  Tea Party Republican or a Reagan Republican, but they are all really  Reactionary Republicans, ready to demonize anything their political  opponents support at the drop of a hat. There is a point, though, where  the demonizer can become the demon. The general public doesn’t care  abo]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. Another great benefit of the MACS program is the administrative support and assistance students receive in attending conferences related to their focused area of &nbsp;cultural sustainability. &nbsp;I was able to document the African American Storytellers Retreat after taking Cultural Documentation with Harold Anderson, Ph.D. &nbsp;This semester, in Field Lab with Andy Kolovos, Ph.D, the discourse extends into logging, archiving, and interviewing. &nbsp;Oral History with Joel Gardner, Ph.D provides exemplary perspective and technique. &nbsp;Our core text book is"Doing Oral History" by Donald A. Ritchie. &nbsp;In 2012 after attending the retreat, I will add oral history interviews to the archived photos and video from 2011. &nbsp;I &nbsp;think that a mixed media course on photography and videography would be advantageous, especially for neo-phytes such as myself. &nbsp;I rarely picked up a camera prior to MACS, not even while raising my children. &nbsp;&nbsp;In the meantime, if you have]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Governor Brownback Needs To Fire His Communications Director]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Governor Brownback’s communications director, Sherriene Jones-Sontag, has taken a 100% certified molehill—an indecorous tweet from a bored school kid  who happened to be in an audience in front of the governor at the  time—and turned it into a textbook example of how to build a mountain of  negative public opinion for your boss overnight. Could you imagine  Governor Chris Christie’s staffers making a decision like this?

Ms. Sullivan didn’t actually make any critical comments in person, but the tweet, sent out to a following of about 60 people (though it’s over 800 now), somehow caught the eye  of the Governor’s Director of Communication, Sherriene Jones-Sontag,  during her daily monitoring of social media mentions of Governor  Brownback. Shocked – shocked! – that a teenager’s tweet about a  politician was “disrespectful,” she complained to the high school. “It’s  also important for students to recognize the power of social media, how  lasting it is. It]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Usually on Thanksgiving I put on a sweater, crank up the heat, eat  some turkey and watch some football. This year, I am trying to decide  between kayaking along the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island  or simply slipping on one of the many Hawaiian shirts I’ve packed,  cracking a beer and just enjoying the view. I started out with good  intentions towards keeping up a steady stream of blog posts this week,  but the temporary office I chose, a picnic table on a outcropping of  volcanic rock thirty feet above the waves, probably wasn’t the best  choice for getting my creative juices flowing. And my body still has no  idea what time it really is.   
One of the unique things about Hawaii is the prominence the islands  give to the stories of those whose lives shaped the nation’s 50th  state. To have the equivalent kind of heritage displays in a  continental U.S. state like say, my home state South Carolina, you would  have to have a tableau of the Dred Scott decision, a replica of a s]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The Republican Party has a big problem  right now, and his name is Herman Cain. He can’t win the nomination, he  won’t go home, yet he makes all the other presidential candidates look  like also rans, mostly because he is very, very good at speaking through  the TV cameras to right wing America.   The GOP brain trust has got to be wondering right about now how to  graft Herman Cain’s effusive personality onto Mitt Romney, who is going  to turn into a yellow stripe if he gets any more middle of the road.  Aside from Jon Huntsman, who came off yesterday like he was an applying  for a job as a teaching assistant in a college philosophy department,  and Rick Perry, who needs a stunt double  for any comment over two sentences, the rest of the field of Republican  presidential hopefuls are a chorus of Negative Nancy’s whose palpable  disgust at the idea of Barack Obama sitting in the White House has  turned them all into grotesque caricatures of themsel]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["Our Blacks Are So Much Better Than Their Blacks”]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard &nbsp;



"Our blacks are so much better than their blacks. To become a 
black Republican, you don't just roll into it. You're not going with the
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Ann Coulter on the Sean Hannity Show, October 31st, 2011




“Volcanic” is probably too gentle a word to describe the Mount 
Vesuvius that raged within me as I tried to process this sentence. I 
will leave it to someone like Melissa Harris-Lacewell to deconstruct the
 tone of ownership in Coulter's voice that jumped right off the screen 
and smacked me and countless other African Americans dead in the face. 
To Ann Coulter, and her surrogates, all I will say is this—there is no 
need to apologize, or walk this statement back, or tell me that I am 
“taking it out of context”, because I got the message loud and clear the
 first time. This is just the kind of thing that makes black people yank
 out their credit cards, pull up www.barackobama.com, and click the "Donate Now" button.&nbsp; &nbsp;

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. Pat Delahaye making quilt for soldier overseesLillian Burroughs "Crazy Quilt"On Friday October 21st, I went to the Willingboro Senior Citizen Center for my first day of observation. &nbsp;It was a two-fold process - fulfilling an assignment for Cultural Documentation Field Lab and doing ethnography for the first Phase of In FACT's SCATTS program (Discovering the Folklife traditions of Willingboro). &nbsp;Well, Sugar Pie Honey Bunch, It was Motown Revue Day. &nbsp;Before the program started, I took the time to venture into the Creative Arts room where the Quilting Diva's greeting me warmly, and shared the passion of their craft. Have you visited your local senior citizen center lately?&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Video of Motown RevueA friend asked me in a vibrantly pitched voice....&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "These are SENIORS?"]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Twitter exploded last night when news about payoffs to former employees of the National Restaurant Association who had accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment  during his tenure hit POLITICO’s front page. Since the Sunday night  game between the Eagles and the Cowboys was a bust, I started rooting  around the nether parts of the internet to see what people were saying  about these revelations. After wading through comments at the conservative websites Redstate, FreeRepublic, and Townhall  for awhile, the conspiracy theories started to run together, although  there seemed to be three main threads. About a third of the comments  went right for the jugular and blamed all of this on President Obama and  the “liberal” media. Another third of the comments seemed to take the  position that one of the other candidates for the GOP presidential  nomination had been in possession of this information for awhile,  waiting for the right time to leak it to the pr]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Elizabeth And Hazel Story Humanizes Little Rock Nine Icon | Resurgence | Big Think                                     “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to integrate!”  The black and white picture from the fifties of a teenaged white girl  yelling racial epithets at a young black coed who marches through an  angry white mob to desegregate a Deep South high school in 1957 is world  famous.  "I walked South on Park Street toward 14th Street  until I got in  front of the school. I walked across the street and  started to go up  on the sidewalk. About 12 members of the National Guard  stood in front  of the school along the sidewalk on the West side of  Park Street. As I  stepped from the street to go toward the sidewalk the  National  Guardsmen stood in front of me and would not let me pass them.  They held their rifles in front of them but did not point them at  me. I  tried once to walk around them and as I did they moved to the  side in  front of me and would not let me pass.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I've been having a high old time the last couple of weeks watching both  Republican presidential candidates and TV political pundits squirm  whenever the phrase “9-9-9” is uttered. Nevertheless, Herman Cain has  shown no real ability to raise the tens of million dollars a serious  candidate needs to compete nationally. Herman Cain has proffered no  viable field strategy to build sustainable voter support for his  candidacy across the country. Herman Cain didn’t have more than a  handful of campaign staffers on his payroll until last week. Herman Cain  is not willing to answer tough questions about the positions he has  taken and the things he has said. No matter how you slice it, Mr. Cain  looks like the GOP’s definition of an affirmative action baby, and there  isn’t a thing the Republican Party powers that be can do about it.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. Board Members in this photo (head of table to left): &nbsp;Patricia Burch, Constance English, Cassandra Allen, Saundra Gillard Davis, TAHIRA, Gordon Boelter, Esq., Coniqua Abdul-Malik, Rita Moonsammy, Queen Nur, Herman EnglishPhoto taken by board member: &nbsp;Alonzo Jennings.In FACT: &nbsp;Innovative Solutions through Folk Art, Culture and Tradition&nbsp;is a cultural sustainability organization that was incorporated as a non-profit in New Jersey on July 8, 2011. &nbsp;In FACT, Inc. is a social enterprise with a mission to perpetuate and preserve folklife traditions and to use these traditions to sustain communities and affect social change. &nbsp;Through matriculating my Masters in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College, this is how it came to be:1. &nbsp;Fall 2010 - Cultural Sustainability - Rory Turner, PhD.Developed SCATTS (Sustaining Culture and Tradition Through Storytelling) as a Groundwork Project that involves fieldwork, folk arts workshops and a concert &amp; exhibition.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. 365 Ways to Sustain Culture &amp; 54I have a new and profoundly fun challenge. &nbsp;Let's post &nbsp;365 Ways to Sustain Culture.This challenge was inspired at the NJ Council of the Arts Multi-Day Artist Training last month. &nbsp; The Keynote speaker for Day 1, Noah Scalin, shared, that back in 2007, he heard a voice that said, "Make a Skull a Day." - and so he did for 365 Days. &nbsp;He presented a slide show with remarkable creative skulls made from flower petals, a sheet, scratchboard, soysauce, wire, bottle parts. construction blocks in the middle of NY city, dance steps..... you name it. The original creations are called Skull a Day 1.0. &nbsp;He is now up to Skull a Day 5.0, has exhibited in major museums, and has published books including: &nbsp;A Daily Creativity Journal: &nbsp;Make Something Everyday &amp; Change Your Life. &nbsp;Noah had lots of help from bloggers. I am hoping to have the same.Noah's workshop inspired me to blog 365 ways to sustain culture. &nbsp;My anticip]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard &nbsp;We've Got DISQUS now at Big Think! Come on over and give us a piece of your mind!

How does Herman Cain become the bad guy for telling the truth, something every true blue member of the GOP says they want to see more of in a candidate? If you are a Republican, you really need to stop for a second and ask yourself—what other answer could a successful African American who has never shied away from the color of his skin possibly give to such a loaded question about race that wouldn’t sound like he was the second coming of Stepin Fetchit?

If Mr. Cain, who has suffered recent loss of key campaign staffers and is averaging in the teens in presidential nomination polls, was really seen as a serious contender for the nomination, he might find that his recent comments to Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s This Week about Rick Perry's connection to the Niggerhead Ranch could put his candidacy in jeopardy with conservative Americans.

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Tavis Smiley And Cornel West Want To See Peel And Stick “Black Agenda” Labels On Obama Policies 



To Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, and all other African American pundits who want to own the conversation about the black community - President Barack Obama is not Captain Save-A-Negro. He is the president of the entire United States. The way Smiley and West have been carrying on lately, though, you would think President Obama is supposed to wink his eye at the TV camera at least once a week and whisper, "I'll get that hook up for y'all when I get done with this announcement." What do these two commentators expect the president to do? Open up special branches of the U.S. Treasury in black communities that sell dollar bills for fifty cents?


Which is why I was pleasantly surprised the other day, while cruising through the Ta-Nehisi Coates blog at The Atlantic, to come across a video recording of professor Randall Kennedy's app]]></description>
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The Help Elbows Accepted Historical Narrative Of The South Aside 


For some strange reason, I ended up watching the new movie The Help yesterday, less than twenty four hours after viewing Driving Miss Daisy for the first time. The most enduring conclusion I could draw from the whole experience? General Sherman should have burned every god damned thing in the entire Confederacy down to the ground during the Civil War.     

In my mind, Viola Davis had already earned the Oscar for best actress for her portrayal of maid Aibileen Clark as soon as I saw the look in her eyes, a soul numbed stare that America had invested over three hundred years of intense and unceasingly relentless physical and psychological terror to produce. The combination of outstanding cinematography and astonishingly precise dialogue in both films had me, a middle aged African American man who has lived in the South his whole life, short of breath and anxiou]]></description>
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Debt Ceiling Deal Smells Like A Subprime Loan


With the nerve wracking threat of a default by America on its  outstanding debt being broadcast on all the news channels practically  twenty four hours a day, I am reading a lot of chatter on the web by progressive Democrats  who are insisting that President Obama suddenly morph into Samuel L.  Jackson and start kicking ass and taking names. Conversations at the  more extremist conservative websites  I’ve come across often veer off into John Wayne territory, with calls  by staunch Tea Party supporters for the GOP congressional leadership to  simply reject any compromise proposals and stand their ground. Neither  one of these groups should be wasting their time on the charade of this  artificial debacle, because the fix has been in for some time. &nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard My man Sean Yoes at WEAA in Baltimore needs your vote. Sean, who has had me on his political show as a regular guest for the last two years, needs your votes over the next three days to help get his new radio show, The Dialogue,&nbsp;on the air. 


Click below and vote for The Dialogue with Sean Yoes and Dr. Renee 

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Also, I will be on the radio&nbsp;this coming&nbsp;Sunday evening with Sean, senior reporter at The Afro American, giving my own two cents on how the Democrats are feeling in the aftermath of the debt ceiling deal towards President Obama. Yoes is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Baltimore's NPR affiliate WEAA-FM (88.9 FM), which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. 


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        <title><![CDATA[How The Debt Ceiling Talks Have Strengthened President Obama | Resurgence | Big Think]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Forcing President Obama to focus on the debt ceiling issue night after night for weeks on end has changed him for the better. Unfortunately for congressional Republicans, this manufactured fiscal crisis has drawn battle lines in the sand that are impossible even for the president and his cherished bipartisanship ideals to ignore. President Obama normally has a tendency to see himself as a open minded big picture thinker with the ability to keep a lot of balls in the air at once, tethered to no particular ideology other than the most efficient solution to a problem. This may be a good way to manage an administration, but it leaves something to be desired when it comes to the care and feeding of a presidential image. It often takes a crisis to get this president to remember that he is a Democrat. In fact, it often takes a moments like these to get this president to remember how to speak directly and clearly to the masses on whose behalf he ostensibly toils in the Oval Office.How The Debt]]></description>
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I didn't pay any attention to this Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case until I started reading "can DSK resurrect his political career?" type headlines. Because the victim in this case is not a squeaky clean, never broke the law before type of person who can be portrayed as an innocent wide eyed victim, does that mean that the same act of forcible sexual conduct that got Strauss-Kahn locked up in the first place, the act that we have established WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, is moot?

The victim, who has been relegated to being "the maid", or "the chambermaid", is written about as if she is so much trash for daring to spit out Strauss-Kahn's unwanted sperm from her mouth AND COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. As if she is less than a human being for NOT HAPPILY THROWING HER LEGS OPEN and allowing someone with DNA matching Strauss-Kahn's to rip at her vagina to his heart's content.

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Why The Hell Is Strauss-Kahn Wearing A Halo All Of A Sudden?




The words in every story I read about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case seem to trill at the thought that he may go free. I am seriously convinced that we really should think about closing all of our journalism schools down. How does Strauss-Kahn, a man with a long sordid history of abusive behavior towards women whose sperm was found on the uniform of accuser Nafissatou Diallo, get to wear a halo all of a sudden?    

Murder is always murder. Assault is always assault. It would seem to follow that rape is always rape. But rape is often seen by the public and the press as situational, although the number of variables involved in determining whether a person has been raped are very similar to the number of variables involved in determining whether a person has been assaulted.

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


Sean Hannity's Sucker MC Obsession With Common



This fake controversy about the rapper Common and his invitation to a White House poetry reading had me thinking about “Sucker M.C.’s”, an old rap song by RUN-DMC. Sean Hannity has proved once and for all that he is a real Sucker M.C., a “sad face clown” who “just ain’t right.” To Hannity’s core Fox News audience, the kind of people who delight in listening to him decry subversive Negro madness, this manufactured controversy lines right up with what they want to believe about African Americans.

But most of my mulling has not been about Hannity and his Hee Haw Posse of attack dog guests over at “We Wish We Were A Real News Channel”, who will be sputtering and muttering about a Christian vegetarian pro-life rapper from Chicago for the next six weeks, a rapper whose biggest group of supporters are white and college educated. Some of my mulling has taken plac]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: You Are More Likely To Drown Than Die From A Terrorist Attack]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


You Are More Likely To Drown Than Die From A Terrorist Attack



A friend of mine sent me a text message yesterday. “Should we be worried about retaliation?” I was in the middle of something, so I gave her a one word reply. “Yep.”

It wasn’t until later that I thought about the level of anxiety that the public is feeling right now. So even though I need to give some topics other than the Osama bin Laden whirlwind some attention this week, I've decided that stuff can wait another day while I try to come up with a more satisfying answer.

My first inclination is to tell my friend that if she were to apply the laws of probability, as boring and as predictable as they are, to the likelihood of her or her loved ones being the victims of a retaliatory terrorist act, she would find out that she is more likely to:   

-- You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack

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


“If Obama Gets Bin Laden They Will Forget He’s Black”



I heard about the death of Osama Bin Laden the same way a lot of other people across the country did – while I was doing something else on a Sunday night other than watching cable news on TV. In fact, I was sitting outside, finishing off a mediocre but still satisfying stogie while in the midst of firing up my trusty dusty laptop when S. opened the door, all ready for bed with her curlers in her hair, and said “they killed bin Laden.”

It took me a few moments after she had closed the door to process everything she’d said. Then I sat the laptop down, laid my cigar down gently and went into the house to get the phone, for the words my buddy had uttered back in the spring of 2009, soon after the death threats against President Obama had escalated and the Tea Party had been born, came back to me.

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


Donald Trump Slapped Black America In The Face This Week



The sixty four thousand dollar question this week is, “how long do we have to wait before Donald Trump and the rest of the inhabitants of Pale Nation, that stubborn subset of white Americans who still feel like they are doing all of us minorities a favor by letting us breathe the same air they do, realize that this discombobulating feeling they have been wrestling with these past two and a half years is going to be permanent?”



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


President Obama Chumps Donald Trump and the Birthers




Donald Trump has been running around the countryside, playing the CEO of Village Idiot, Inc. to the hilt these last few weeks, and our lazy, unprincipled national media corps has hung right with him, broadcasting every inane, bombastic utterance that explodes from his mouth. I figured President Obama was going to release his birth certificate at some point, although, for my money, I would have waited a little longer, just to keep Karl Rove from sleeping at night as this cancerous obsession with the legitimacy of our President’s citizenship ate away at any chances the GOP had to regain the White House.



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


Why Does Having Black Friends Matter So Much To Racial Bigots? 



When someone these days is exposed publicly for perpetrating an act of racial bigotry against African Americans, somewhere during their non-apologizing and excuse making, you are almost certain to get the phrase “I have friends who are black”.

Why does that matter? What does it mean? Is the perpetrator trying to tell us that the kind of black people they claim as friends are the type of black people who simply love being denigrated and belittled? Or that their black friends are all direct descendants of Buckwheat, ready to start skinning and grinning at the first sign of any racist bon mots? Or that the rest us black people are just being uppity, and need to quit expecting to be treated like human beings all the time?


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        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. In the griotic tradition, we sustain our community values by honoring our elders.  The elders hold a treasured position in society.... at least that's the way of long ago, and oceanic miles away.  With the flourishing of senior homes and intergenerational disconnect this custom borders on becoming a relic.  How do we listen once again to those who carry the wisdom?  How do we teach the young to sit at their feet and inhale the stories?]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Grant Hill Takes A Charge From Jalen Rose 



The Grant Hill Jalen Rose debacle captivated black bloggers all last week. I was out of town at the time the Fab Five special produced by Jalen Rose aired on ESPN, and out of my normal all internet/ no TV routine, so I actually saw parts of the show while channel surfing. I don’t know if was serendipity, or happenstance, but I obviously flipped channels during all of the most controversial statements Rose made on the program, because I was surprised this week to see so many comments at so many places on the web about this. The Grant Hill op-ed in the New York Times last Thursday was an eye opener on so many levels. Saturday’s response by Jalen Rose in the Wall Street Journal, by contrast, sounds a lot like those apologies politicians make after they make controversial statements.


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Empirical Accuracy And Logical Rigor Elude Foreign Policy Experts




I used to think, when I heard the words “foreign policy expert”, that it really meant something, the way the phrase “nuclear power expert” connotes the image of someone who has an impressive level of comprehension of vast amounts of empirical data about the care and feeding of radioactive isotopes in a nuclear reactor. But these days, I am more inclined, when I see the moniker “foreign policy expert”, to picture someone more along the lines of a sports betting handicapper, who routinely divines the future outcome of basketball or football games as if the incomplete and often contradictory information he has access to about a team’s past performance is always indicative of its future results.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. Voices of Courage:&nbsp; Profiles of 19th Century African American Women began its national tour in Sacramento, California in 2009 in conjunction with the opening of the Smithsonian’s Freedom’s Sisters.&nbsp; If you have experienced the show or will be attending its presentation in my hometown of Willingboro on March 26 please join the comments below by posting to my blog and/or webpage. Reviews:&nbsp; The program, Voices of Courage:&nbsp; Profiles of 19th Century African American Women, was remarkable for its educational value, historical accuracy, for a&nbsp;wonderfully developed script, and costuming that represented each character.&nbsp; Queen Nur's&nbsp;energy, commitment, and reverence for each of the women she portrayed was extraordinary! "The hour-long Voices of Courage program completely held the attention of the audience.&nbsp; Their comments were extremely positive and several attended her repeat program. " - Mary Mijares, Sacramento Public Library&nbsp;The artist “bec]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. Is the celebration of women limited to one month?&nbsp; Absolutely not!&nbsp; However, March deemed National Women’s History Month is a pristine opportunity to elevate the spirit, lives and deeds of the female gender.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a perfect time to attend events highlighting achievements of women.I am honored to present my national show Voices of Courage:&nbsp; Profiles of 19th Century African-American Women at the Willingboro Public Library on March 26th at 2:00 p.m. &nbsp; The interactive performance is designed for audiences 10 and up.&nbsp;&nbsp; Did you know the poplar version of Sojourner Truth’s historical “Ain’t I&nbsp; A Women” was written 12 years later by the southern white women who presided over the Women’s Convention where the original speech was orated?&nbsp;&nbsp; In Voices of Courage, story lovers hear an account of Sojourner's true delivery reported at the end of the convention.&nbsp; The audience sings the lyrics written by Sojourner for the Buffalo]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I got this email from the guys at Color of Change a couple days ago - couldn't have said what they'vee written here better myself:
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There was once a time in this country when Black folks would work 12-hour days for less money than their White co-workers who worked only eight. The key to leveling the playing field for Black workers was collective bargaining — and now Republicans around the country are attacking this basic right. The right of workers to negotiate as a group for better wages, benefits and working conditions has been important for everyone, but it's been especially meaningful for Black Americans. Before we could collectively bargain, we had little control over our working conditions and no protection from racial discrimination in the workplace. That's why it's critical that we stand with the workers in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, and everywhere else collective bargaining is coming under attack. Please join us in sending a message of support to all those fightin]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I will be on the radio tonight at 8:30 pm EST with Sean Yoes, senior reporter at The Afro American, giving my own two cents on the citizens rebellion in Libya, the populist uprising in Wisconsin,&nbsp; and the steamy memoirs of the ex-girlfriend of Clarence Thomas, and the .  Yoes is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Baltimore's NPR affiliate WEAA-FM (88.9 FM), which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m.

In any case, it will be an entertaining segment, with plenty of information about the plight of the Libyan freedom fighters, the disgrace in Wisconsin, and the foreign policy challenges facing the Obama administration going forward.  

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I was talking to my buddy from Alabama last night when he mentioned that "Snoop" from The Wire had been arrested. So today, after taping a segment for the AFRO/First Edition political show, I asked host Sean Yoes about it, since he played Lt. Brent Hoskins on the same show.

"Actually," he said, "I wrote about it for Black America Web today." 

'The Wire' Star's Arrest Imitates Her Real Life

Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Life imitates art far more often than art imitates life.”

Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who portrayed the diminutive but cold-blooded drug assassin with the same name on HBO’s “The Wire,” has unfortunately lived out the life she played on cable and has landed in legal trouble again
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Hillary Clinton Pins The Tail On The News Media]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Hillary Clinton Pins The Tail On The News Media



Hillary Clinton, of all people, made my day last week when she said the news in the United States consists of “…a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads…” To add insult to injury, she held up Al Jazeera, the Arab news station, as a model of responsible information dissemination. But Clinton is absolutely right - our national nightly news shows and cable news channels are mostly a waste of time, whether you are looking for domestic news or world news. When you spend as much time on the internet as I do, not only do you already know all the details of stories they run, you can see how little information these elaborately produced newsroom efforts actually impart to viewers.


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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Mr. President, there are too many white boys on your staff and in the news media and in the cartoon character gallery (this means you, Newt Gingrich), white boys that have never served a day in their god damned lives in any branch of this country’s military who have a got a tremendous hard-on these days for simply whipping out the artillery and going to town on some Libyan ass. 

Contrary to popular belief, blue balls have never killed anybody. But can I guarantee you, Mr. President, that if you start sending our troops to Libya, less of them will come back alive than you sent there. Men with loaded guns in foreign countries, even when they are on humanitarian missions, can turn small battles into huge regional conflicts overnight. And in case the geniuses on your staff forgot, WE DON”T HAVE ENOUGH SOLDIERS LEFT TO FIGHT ANY MORE WARS RIGHT NOW than we are already in. 

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard It’s a great day in the morning when you get billionaires crying the blues in the Wall Street Journal op-ed section.
 
It’s an even greater one when that particular billionaire is Charles Koch, who has elected this year to play the role of the obscenely rich autocrat who is just fed up with all this cauterwauling from the masses about how much money he makes and how little taxes he really pays. He is just TIRED of people worrying about what government programs his corporations gladly participate in, because when you live in KochWorld, the government is only supposed to provide services and funding and tax breaks to those who hold the reins of commerce – all the rest of you lazy, good for nothing, molly coddled proletariat who just want police and schools and roads TO GET TO WORK ON to make KochWorlder types even more billions be damned.

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        <title><![CDATA[AFRO First Edition on WEAA: Sean Yoes And Kris Broughton Talk Politics Tonite At 8:30]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I will be on the radio tonight at 8:30 pm EST with Sean Yoes, senior reporter at The Afro American, giving my own two cents on Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin protests.  Yoes is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Baltimore's NPR affiliate WEAA-FM (88.9 FM), which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m.

If you are a fan of Scott Walker and his heavy handed tactics to strip the Wisconsin public unions of their collective bargaining rights, you do not need to click on the link above tonight. 

In any case, it will be an entertaining segment, with plenty of information about the plight of the protestors and the challenges facing the Obama administration going forward.  

You can click this link and push the "Listen Live" button at the top of the page to hear the show. 

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        <title><![CDATA["You're Doing A Heck Of A Job, Scottie"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard The dumbassedness continues in the governor's mansion in Wisconsin, where Scott Walker's guts are probably starting to curdle and twist in fear of the no show Tuesday by the state senate's Democratic caucus, an act that will effectively force him to deal with his budget shortfall without the benefit of a bond refinancing.

I couldn't see it happening to a nicer guy.

I told you earlier this week why this kicked out of college nincompoop would be an idiot for giving the rest of the world time to really study the entire 146 pages of that bill he and his posse were trying to pass so fast. 

I could never have imagined that he would be dumb enough to TAKE A CALL FROM A BILLIONAIRE WHO IS ON FUCKING SKYPE!  I actually have a similar recording device on my Skype account, although it doesn't work nearly as well as the one used by the editor of the Buffalo Beast.

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        <title><![CDATA[Brown Man Thinking Hard Is Now Mobile]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I've been haranguing my buddy to death about his company website lately because he doesn't have a mobile version. Ever since I succumbed to the urge to get a  smartphone, I have been amazed at the number of websites I can visit with just the touch of a few buttons during lunch or on a trip. 

So it finally dawned on me yesterday that my own blog was not mobile friendly. This is usually the point where I wonder why I don't break down and get a Wordpress blog, which would make all of this as easy as uploading a plugin.

Luckily, the folks at Blogger are actually working, because while I was looking for a mobile friendly template to install, something I really don't have time for right now, I discovered that they have introduced a new feature to Blogger that makes getting a mobile friendly version of my blog as easy as clicking "yes" underneath the right tab on my Blogger dashboard.  

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        <title><![CDATA[Is Scott Walker Stupid Enough To Keep Playing Chicken With Unions?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has already lost whatever it was he was fighting for days ago. The question is, is he stupid enough to ante up what's left of his credibility to prove a point? With a 3.2 BILLION deficit looming just around the corner, is he planning on paying state employees with actual peanuts next year, unless the price of peanuts go up? 

The state's Democrats will ultimately have to come back. But they never had anything to lose in this debacle. The only ones with any political skin in the game on this one are the Wisconsin Republicans, and to a lesser extent, their fellow brethren in the Ohio legislatures and others who seem to be in lock step with their "kill the unions" agenda. The union members in Wisconsin have their backs against the wall. They are almost in the same boat the Egyptians were in last week.

Walker's real problem is public scrutiny. One hundred and forty six page bills, like the two thousand plus page healthcare bill the Democrats passed last]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wisconsin Governor Hopes Unions Settle For A Dollar A Day And A Bowl Of Rice]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:



Wisconsin Governor Hopes Unions Settle For A Dollar A Day And A Bowl Of Rice 



Wisconsin Governor Hopes Unions Settle For A Dollar A Day And A Bowl Of Rice

The Republican Party has declared war on public servants in the United States the same way Middle East dictators have declared war on political dissidents. Members of the GOP like Scott Wilson, the governor of Wisconsin, want the people of Wisconsin to believe that the people who keep their communities safe, their houses from burning down, their kids educated and their trash picked up on time are nothing more than sniveling spoiled brats who should be thankful if they get to work for anything more than a dollar a day and a bowl of rice.




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        <title><![CDATA[AFRO First Edition on WEAA: Sean Yoes And Kris Broughton Talk Politics Tonite At 8:30]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I will be on the radio tonight at 8:30 pm EST with Sean Yoes, senior reporter at The Afro American, giving my own two cents on the Egyptian uprising.  Yoes is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Baltimore's NPR affiliate WEAA-FM (88.9 FM), which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m.

The ironic thing about this interview is, less than ten minutes after we wrapped up the taping Huffington Post announced that Hosni Mubarak had stepped down as the head of the Egyptian government.

In any case, it will be an entertaining segment, with plenty of information about the plight of the protestors and the challenges facing the Obama administration going forward.  

You can click this link and push the "Listen Live" button at the top of the page to hear the show. 

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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Opinions About The Egyptian Uprising You Will Not See On TV]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Opinions About The Egyptian Uprising You Will Not See On TV



Those of us writers who are not experts on foreign policy have done more reading than writing this week about the tense situation between the Egyptian government and the Egyptian people after the recent Egyptian uprising, even though most of us have no problem grasping the rudimentary aspects of America’s foreign policy stance as we watch the agonizing rituals that usually come with the fall of a nation’s leader. As my brother so simply and eloquently put it earlier today, “every revolution happens because somebody else wants to be in charge.”

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
January 14, 2011

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., FEDERAL HOLIDAY, 2011

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Half a century ago, America was moved by a young preacher who called a generation to action and forever changed the course of history. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. devoted his life to the struggle for justice and equality, sowing seeds of hope for a day when all people might claim "the riches of freedom and the security of justice." On Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the holiday recognizing one of America's greatest visionary leaders, and we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King.

Dr. King guided us toward a mountaintop on which all Americans -- regardless of skin color -- could live together in mutual respect and brotherhood. His bold leadership and prophetic eloquence united peo]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: President Obama Preaches For Revival In Arizona]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


President Obama Preaches For Revival In Arizona


I was pretty content looking at CPAN last night, watching the people milling around the University of Arizona&rsquo;s arena after President Obama&rsquo;s remarks during the memorial service for those killed in the Arizona tragedy. But that got vetoed. In the interests of domestic compromise, I ended up watching the reactions of the political pundits on a couple of the cable news channels instead. I wondered, as I listened to practically all of the pundits and commentators carp about something or another they found objectionable about Obama&rsquo;s speech, if the president really had it all wrong. Was it possible our commander-in-chief could be so dense that he didn&rsquo;t understand his public speeches were primarily made for the benefit of political pundit dissections, and not for the benefit of the real live American citizens that might be standing in front of him?It only to]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Winners Of American Uprising Copies  Announced]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard &nbsp; 

Well, there are actually two winners of copies of American Uprising.


Lawrence McCullogh of New Jersey
and 
David Williams of New Jersey


Thanks to everyone who entered before the Monday night deadline, whether you did via this blog, email, or Twitter. Everyone who entered got a number, issued consecutively, that roughly corresponded to the order in which their entry was received, and then it was off to Random.org, which is the service whose random integer generator actually chose the lucky twosome.

Since we are still snowed in here in the ATL, it may be a few days before I can get to the Post Office, which is just starting to resume service in our area, to mail the winners their books. &nbsp; 

Giving away stuff, especially books, which are right up Brown Man Thinking Hard's alley, is fun!

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        <title><![CDATA[Win A Free Copy Of American Uprising: The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Tomorrow, January 8th, is the 200th anniversary of the 1811 Louisiana slave revolt, a revolt you probably never heard of before now. Read my review of the book today at Big Think, and enter our random drawing to win a hardcover copy of American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen




Publishers Blurb:

In January 1811, a group of around 500 enslaved men, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from the slave plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. They decided that they would die before they would work another day of back—breaking labor in the hot Louisiana sun. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this slave army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the United States—and one of the defining moments in the history of New Orleans and the nation.

Ameri]]></description>
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American Uprising Revisits Louisiana's 1811 Slave Revolt

If the adage “history is written by the winners” is true, then what does that mean for African American history, especially now that more W’s are slowly but surely showing up in our won-loss column? How hard will it be to convince the rest of America to replace the commonly accepted falsehoods and deliberate omissions about the history of black Americans with the fruits of careful scholarship? Daniel Rasmussen, a recent Harvard graduate, has decided to step up to the plate and take a whack at righting the historical record with American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, a brief but cogent narrative that reinterprets the circumstances surrounding the largest slave revolt in American history.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard I knew John Boehner and Eric Cantor were chicken.

I've been waiting all week to see which lily livered, cracker-assed cracker from the GOP was going to have the balls to stand up on camera this morning and read THIS section of the original Constitution that they have been crying about for the last two years:


Article 1, Section 2, United States Constitution 


Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. 
Just what I thought - not a damn one. Instead, these lying ass mofos did what they always do - skip over the hard parts and say they did it.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard It wasn't long after I pushed the "submit" button on my article over at Big Think this morning that I saw this headline: 

"Barbour Mulling A "Race Speech"

over at The Daily Beast.

Mr. Barbour, you need to stop payment on the last check you wrote to your political consultants if this is the kind advice you have been getting.

Maybe its about time you hired a firm like Blacksheep Political Consulting. We can help you turn some of that ridiculous PR strategy you've been engaging in lately around. 

But before we will consider taking you on as a client, you've got to accept some hard truths. 


Hard truth #1:  White Southerners, especially those like you, who were oblivious to the civil rights turmoil that saturated the atmosphere in your home state in the 50's and 60's, cannot lay claim to being on the right side of history after the fact. 


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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Haley Barbour Tries To Whitewash History Of America's Blackest State]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Haley Barbour Tries To Whitewash History Of America's Blackest State


Haley Barbour has obviously forgotten that running for the presidency of the United States is not the same as running for the presidency of the Yazoo City Country Club. Barbour attempted to whitewash the past with the same old half truths still promulgated by white southerners of a certain age, half truths this ruling class has relied on for decades to deny the existence of the viscous cruelty and brutality used during segregation to keep black Americans in check.

Growing up in South Carolina, the home of this month’s Secession Ball and an obsessive desire to keep flying the flag of a defeated Confederacy, there was one thing I always knew for sure—however bad race relations seemed in my native Palmetto State, I had no doubt that they were worse for black people in Mississippi. This was confirmed just a couple of years ago by a thirty something cowork]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Today At Big Think: Hunger Is Not Sexy]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Brown Man Thinking Hard Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com:


Hunger Is Not Sexy

Hunger is not sexy. Hunger is not the new black. Hunger is not in style, this season or any other. President Obama knows instinctively that the most important issue is this week is whether or not millions of Americans, Americans who won’t be hired anywhere in the next six to twelve months because there are no jobs to be had, will have anything to eat.

 

…hunger is not sexy…

 

But in the headlines about who won when President Obama announced his tax cut deal, I don’t see “the unemployed won” or “the middle class won” or “business owners won” being written anywhere .

All I see is “the GOP” won.

Won what?




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


Painting The Town Vermillion 

I went from the paintings, prints and poetry of John Lennon to the paintings and prints of William Tolliver in twenty four hours this weekend. Friday night, instead of parking myself in front of my computer, I was talked into taking a ride down to Buckhead to see an exhibition of art works by John Lennon, who was more famous for the work he did on his day job as a member of the Beatles. 

It was fun, although I realized as I walked around the exhibit that I really didn’t know that much about Lennon other than the name of his last residence, the Dakota, and the name of his widow, Yoko Ono. The few Beatles songs I’d heard over and over in my youth had blended into the cacophony of disparate music collections blaring out of the rooms in the dorm where I lived as a freshman. My coming of age years didn’t revolve around the crooning of the four young musicians from Liverpool but the middle age]]></description>
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