I joined a panel yesterday on "World Have Your Say", a BBC Radio show that focuses on hot topics from around the world, to try to answer the question "if it’s not racism, why do some Americans hate President Obama so much?"

The online article touting yesterday's show actually featured a l/…

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It just so happens that I was on the phone yesterday with a staffer from www.RedBrownandBlue.com, asking her about the reception they'd gotten from the black bloggers they'd reached out to recently as they launched their publication - we ended up talking about some of the very same attitudes t… Read full post »

Miles Davis might have had the right idea.

Sometimes you just need to turn your back to the audience and blow.

Bwwwwwwaaaap!

What is going on behind the scenes in the city of Atlanta's mayoral race?

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Can Kasim Reed win without the help of the Maynard Jackson Amen corner?

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How do you get everything you ever asked for as a political party - popular president, significant majority in the House, a majority a hair away from achieving critical mass in the Senate - and then find every excuse in the book for…

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Sean Yoes, the host of the AFRO First Edition talk show I appear on from time to time at WEAA, shot me an email a couple of days ago asking for my thoughts on the recent dust up between Obama and New York Governor David Paterson. The political brouhaha between them/…

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These white Americans you are seeing on your TV every night hollering and yelling and screaming about our president's Kenyan roots need to be put on the hot seat, to get backed into a corner, to be force fed until they choke on/…

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"Most little white children come from families powerful enough to shut out reality."

Jonathan Schwarz
"Four People Turned Stupid By Power"
A Tiny Revolution

I don't know if I agree with the modifier "most" that Schwarz uses here, but I can certainly see the point Schwarz is trying to make. And i/…

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Last Friday I did another thirty minute radio interview with Sean Yoes, who 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 this Sunday at 8 PM with the finger that/…

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When my buddy from Alabama called me yesterday to tell me that he was in front of Congressman David Scott's office at a health care rally, I was still in my pajamas, on hold with my ISP, trying to set up the cranky email software on my new laptop. Twenty minutes/…

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I don't watch much preseason football - hardly any, in fact - because they aren't real games. They are practice sessions that teams use to see if the game plans they have been working on actually work in game day type situations.

Right now, I feel as if the debacle about the/…

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Last Friday I did a thirty minute radio interview with Sean Yoes, who 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.

I didn't know who Sean Yoes was, but when I mentioned to one of/…

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A buddy of mine from Chattanooga must have known that I didn’t watch either the President’s address on healthcare OR Black In America II last night, because he shot me an email immediately after the president’s press conference that said, "can't wait for the…

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This Henry Louis Gates arrest story has just preempted my Michael Vick post, but I guess Vick can wait, seeing as he isn't likely to be doing a whole lot just yet after getting his ankle bracelet off yesterday.

I read the Gates arrest police report earlier, but after chairing a grand/…

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"Rockin Robin" was one of my first records. The IPod equivalent in the seventies was a little square suitcase - mine was covered in orange vinyl - that held a record player and a tinny sounding/…

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Bernice, Dexter, and Martin III - better known many of us in the ATL as "those damn Kings" - are bucking mightily for the Three Horsemen of the Nonviolence Legacy Apocalypse.  As I watched Bernice King and Martin Luther King the Third on CNN last night, discussing the latest legal battle… Read full post »

Colson Whitehead has been stealing my lunch hour all week.  His latest book, Sag Harbor, couldn't be any more frank than it already is about the life of upper middle class black teenaged boys.  I usually read the New York Times for lunch, but this week I couldn't tell you if… Read full post »

Almost fifty percent of black high school students in America don't graduate from high school on time.

No matter how beautiful, profound or august the many, many ceremonies were that we attended Sunday in honor of the Resident Diva's upcoming high school graduation, "almost fifty percent" kept… Read full post »

I had another topic I was going to write about, but the news from Dillon County in South Carolina today was so overwhelming that I had no choice but to put it aside.   CEO Darryl Rosser of Saugus International, a classroom furniture supplier, must have felt the same way I… Read full post »

Michelle Obama is too kind when she talks about Bo, the new Obama family dog.

"It was like 10 o'clock. Everybody was asleep and we hear all this barking and jumping around," the First Lady said to more than 100 children invited to a White House program marking the annual Take… Read full post »

[Sometimes I run across original research, original analysis, or hard-to-get information that is exactly the kind of stuff I live for - well thought out, well written, well researched commentary, the kind that your media experts get by the pound but think is too much for you to understand.

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If you frequent the downtown of just about any major metropolitan area regularly, then you know the difference between the homeless and the hardcore crackheads.  The temporarily homeless have a look in their eyes that says "I am lost.  I not sure how I got here.  Can you help me… Read full post »

Four Negroes in a lifeboat with a rocket launcher and a couple of machine guns are a "defining moment in foreign policy" for the Obama administration?  I think Bill Bennett is one of the smarter, and usually more thoughtful conservative commentators, so I was more than a little surprised… Read full post »

Mr. President, you're a pretty good parent.  Although it's pretty obvious that your wife and mother-in-law have pulled double duty the last few years, you seem to pitch in readily when you are home.  You've raised your children to look out for each other. You've constantly reminded t… Read full post »

I don't have any problem with people protesting the status quo.  I serve as an agent provocateur myself here at Brown Man Thinking Hard, so the idea of the taxpayer "Tea Parties" that will be held next week on April 15th is the kind of thing that would initially appeal to… Read full post »

[Started getting a lot of visitors to my blog yesterday.  Seems like Malkin was not amused.  I didn't have anything else eto write about today anyway except Obama's European vacation, so a response seemed like it would be more fun. ]

 

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