Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 7, 2012, 3:12 am
I have been wondering all week what to write about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s move against Planned Parenthood, but Linda Burger, a 56-year-old breast cancer survivor who resides in Las Vegas, NV, says it on Youtube better than I or any man can. Standing in her bathrobe in front of h...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 29, 2012, 7:31 pm
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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 20, 2012, 3:31 pm
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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 10, 2012, 1:56 am
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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 3, 2012, 1:41 pm
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 f...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Dec 21, 2011, 4:33 am
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 midd...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 28, 2011, 2:00 pm
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 buil...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 24, 2011, 3:21 pm
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 be...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 10, 2011, 10:09 am
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....
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 1, 2011, 12:08 pm
  "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 flow..." Ann Coulter on the Sean Hannity Show, October 31st, 2011 “Volcanic” is probably too gentle a word to descr...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 31, 2011, 12:53 pm
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 rootin...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 30, 2011, 3:30 pm
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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 20, 2011, 2:21 pm
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 need...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 4, 2011, 10:47 am
 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 se...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 21, 2011, 9:36 am
Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com: 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 c...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 13, 2011, 3:37 pm
... 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 g...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 4, 2011, 8:37 am
My man Sean Yoes STILL needs your vote in the WEAA Talent Poll!!! His entry in the competition is a new radio show called The Dialogue. Why am I asking you to vote for Sean Yoes and Dr. Renee Parks? I am a regular guest on Sean's current affairs show on WEAA, the AFRO's First Edition that ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 4, 2011, 7:05 am
Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com: 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 chatte...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jul 26, 2011, 3:28 am
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 b...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jul 4, 2011, 2:47 pm
  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 vic...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jul 3, 2011, 3:58 pm
Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com: 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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - May 14, 2011, 12:46 pm
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 ha...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - May 6, 2011, 2:34 pm
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....
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - May 6, 2011, 12:34 pm
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 watch...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Apr 29, 2011, 9:05 pm
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 o...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Apr 28, 2011, 9:24 am
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 ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Apr 20, 2011, 4:20 am
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 makin...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 23, 2011, 10:56 am
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 ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 23, 2011, 8:55 am
Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com: 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 ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 17, 2011, 11:58 am
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:   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 lev...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 13, 2011, 3:52 pm
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,  and the steamy memoirs of the ex-girlfriend of Clarence Thomas, and the . Yoes is the host of "...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 11, 2011, 1:36 pm
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," h...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 11, 2011, 11:34 am
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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 9, 2011, 10:29 am
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-o...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Mar 1, 2011, 10:26 am
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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 27, 2011, 7:58 pm
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 WEA...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 26, 2011, 6:30 pm
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 b...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 26, 2011, 12:55 pm
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. &...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 22, 2011, 10:47 am
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 wi...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 18, 2011, 10:59 am
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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 13, 2011, 7:35 pm
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 ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Feb 6, 2011, 12:14 pm
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 Eg...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 17, 2011, 9:17 am
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 14, 2011 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., FEDERAL HOLIDAY, 2011 ------------------------------------------ BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Half a centur...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 14, 2011, 12:47 pm
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’s arena after President Obama’s remarks during the memorial service for those...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 12, 2011, 8:12 pm
  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...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 7, 2011, 10:30 am
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: I...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 7, 2011, 9:46 am
Today's topic at my blog "Resurgence" on BigThink.com: 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 showin...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Jan 6, 2011, 1:40 pm
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 t...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Dec 22, 2010, 10:47 am
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 thi...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Dec 22, 2010, 10:16 am
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 ...
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