Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 22, 2009, 2:46 pm
Despite the intense political media focus on Sarah Palin this week, the Brown Man found time to talk to my man Sean Yoes, a senior reporter at The Afro American. Yoes is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO Fi...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 22, 2009, 7:22 am
Senator Mary Landrieau deserves an Oscar for her performance leading up to last night's Senate vote on cloture to officially open the Senate floor to debate over the long awaited healthcare legisl...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 18, 2009, 6:18 am
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 ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 17, 2009, 7:40 am
It's bad for this president to bow to the Japanese, but it's good for the last president to kiss the Saudis. With that kind of logic, I'd hate to think what President Obama should do for ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 11, 2009, 6:48 pm
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 rec...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 11, 2009, 7:45 am
I've been toying around with some comments on the Obama campaign documentary that aired last week, but every time I got started on them, something else came up. Election Night. The Fort Hood sho...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 9, 2009, 6:55 am
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 ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 8, 2009, 3:20 am
It looks like the Affordable Healthcare For America Act, better known as the "healthcare act" if you support it, or "Obamacare" if you are against it, will live to see another day as it moved forward ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 6, 2009, 6:38 am
It is a cruel kind of sadness that the families of the dead at Fort Hood will have to endure. I would not want to see the story of the military gunman who opened fire on his fellow soldiers yesterday...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 4, 2009, 6:28 am
The perennial stereotype of the horse racing gambler has been recounted in books and movies as the kind of person who is able to see attributes in the horses that they inevitably lose money on that ju...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 2, 2009, 7:10 pm
Newt Gingrich and I have the same alma mater. I had no idea that we both graduated from Emory University. The publication the school put out for alumni was in the mail today. Emory Magazine, wh...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 1, 2009, 4:04 pm
This is the audio from the radio interview I did with Sean Yoes on November 1st on WEAA, an NPR afiliate in Baltimore. Healthcare reform, Joe Lieberman's latest antics, the race in New York Distr...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Nov 1, 2009, 6:01 am
Between all of the pomp and circumstance of homecoming weekend at S.'s undergraduate alma mater, I found time to get back on the radio for an interview with Sean Yoes, a senior reporter at The Afr...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 30, 2009, 6:00 am
S. and I flew the coop for a few days this morning. I was riding shotgun in the AM through the slow as molasses Atlanta traffic after we dropped the dog off. Seeing him enter the facility is always ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 28, 2009, 7:37 am
After spending a couple of hours wrestling with Microsoft's latest version of Outlook to try to get it to do something it used to do - switch between multiple email identities with two simple clic...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 27, 2009, 6:38 am
Where should I begin today? I'm not so sure. But that's never stopped me before, so let's get this thing started with the topic that is on the tip of everybody's tongue in - healthca...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 23, 2009, 3:28 pm
Sometimes, when you are playing both sides against the middle, you can forget where you are. But since Barack Obama is supposed to be one of the smartest presidents we've ever had, I won't be...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 22, 2009, 2:40 pm
S. and I are going to see Colson Whitehead tonight at 6:30 pm at a reading on the campus of the Atlanta branch of Savannah College of Art and Design. The last time I saw him here was about five years...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 21, 2009, 7:14 am
One of the more annoying things I've been hearing the last few weeks is the phrase "free enterprise", especially as it pertains to the way modern businesses are supposedly being run these days. P...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 16, 2009, 10:45 am
Chief Wayne Yates Chief James Preacher I've been in South Carolina for the last couple of days in my hometown, a small burg that doesn't have any outlet I know of that carries the New York T...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 15, 2009, 5:49 am
I am back in my hometown again this week, which means that I couldn't help but listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show again yesterday as I drove down the highway from Atlanta to South Carolina. As I wa...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 14, 2009, 12:53 am
I guess I should have been watching the political pundits battle it out tonight after the historic vote on healthcare reform that took place in the Senate today. Instead, I watched Wanda Sykes new HB...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 12, 2009, 9:22 pm
The Brown Man went to Pirate Fest at Tybee Island last weekend and he is still tired. No one who attended seemed to be concerned, at least for the weekend, about politics at all. The restaurants w...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 8, 2009, 7:13 am
Sarah Palin is giving President Obama foreign policy advice from her Facebook account... ...and the news media is eating up every word her ghostwriter writes. In a nation of three hundred million pe...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 7, 2009, 1:56 am
Glenn Beck's latest witchhunt target is Valerie Jarrett, the special adviser to the president/homegirl to the First Lady/dyed-in-the-wool Chicagoan who is one of Barack Obama's closest profess...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 6, 2009, 6:19 am
General Stanley McChrystal needs to decide whether or not he wants to run for president. Once he figures that out, he needs to pack his bags. There are a number of ways built into military proto...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 4, 2009, 8:12 pm
I hadn't really formulated any thoughts on this Roman Polanski thing other than the usual one I have when someone famous wants a pass for a crime they did commit - what would happen to ME if I as ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 2, 2009, 5:23 am
Alan Grayson (D) Orlando 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 mas...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Oct 1, 2009, 6:15 am
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 ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 29, 2009, 10:42 pm
I'm no foreign policy expert... ...in fact, I know next to nothing about what kinds of policies we have regarding individual nations with whom we are either allies or enemies. But after watchi...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 28, 2009, 6:55 pm
On the way to South Carolina on Friday to see my mother, who is recovering from hip replacement surgery, I listened to talk radio. I got to hear Glen Beck, Neal Boortz, and Rush Limbaugh, all of them...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 27, 2009, 11:58 am
Last week, before rolling out to my hometown of Orangeburg, SC, I did another radio interview with Sean Yoes, who is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Balt...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 23, 2009, 11:22 am
Or last week, for that matter? I know why you haven't seen me until now this week - between my sick, my shut in, and my recently departed family members, I really haven't been able to really ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 20, 2009, 11:53 am
9/12 Washington Tea Party Picture by NineTwelvePhotos If you call me by my real name, the legal middle name that I was given at birth, I won't hear you at first, because it is used so infrequentl...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 16, 2009, 6:14 am
9/12 Washington Tea Party Pictures by NineTwelvePhotos These white Americans you are seeing on your TV every night hollering and yelling and screaming about our president's Kenyan roots need to b...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 15, 2009, 10:27 am
I woke up this morning to see President Barack Obama's face next to Kanye West's face on Huffington Post, underneath the headline Obama: Kanye Is A "Jackass". I wouldn't give a damn mysel...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 14, 2009, 12:17 am
Dayum! Maybe Michelle Malkin meant 2 million INVISIBLE protestors showed up. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you've got a two million word essay here today. See you Tuesday.
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 13, 2009, 6:06 pm
Last Friday, in between moving the Resident Diva into her dorm and getting a new air conditioning unit installed at home, I did another radio interview with Sean Yoes, who is the host of "The WEAA/AFR...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 12, 2009, 7:45 am
It is an ending and a beginning, all in one day. It is a ritual that has become as American as baseball and apple pie. Moving away from home and into a college dorm is the beginning, for many teenag...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 10, 2009, 12:04 am
I fast forwarded through the president's address to Congress on the healthcare initiative last night, only to discover that the DVR that comes with our cable service had only recorded an hour of t...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 7, 2009, 11:02 pm
... stay on the curb of his cul-de-sacs for the rest of his life. Since our TV producers can't seem to come up with any other creative ways to get you ... claim that the truth is what they ar...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 5, 2009, 9:06 pm
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 a...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 1, 2009, 8:19 pm
This is the audio from the second interview the radio interview I did with Sean Yoes that aired on WEAA on September 13th. My blog article "Where Are All The White People With Good Sense?" was the to...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Sep 1, 2009, 5:50 am
I figured I'd pick up where I left off reading "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009", better known to the rest of us as "the healthcare bill". The style in which the document was ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 31, 2009, 6:06 am
I've been beating around the bush long enough. It's time to tackle "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009", better known to the rest of us as "the healthcare bill". The beginni...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 30, 2009, 2:13 pm
My buddy from Alabama called my today, upset at a local newspaper columnist who had painstakingly written an account of the healthcare protest he attended yesterday that, according to him, completely ...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 29, 2009, 4:20 pm
Thursday, while I was in the drugstore, picking up a prescription for S., I ended up in a conversation about healthcare reform with the pharmacist. It was early evening, a time when most of the peopl...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 27, 2009, 8:01 am
"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope." Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (R) Kansas August 2009 You probably won't see this on your TV much, since Ted Kennedy retrospectives wil...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 26, 2009, 7:06 am
Bob Collier of Montezuma, Georgia Maybe what some of us need to do is go to these town hall meetings, not to ask any questions, but with the express intention of following some of these people who ar...
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Kris B. posted an article on Brown Man Thinking Hard - Aug 24, 2009, 7:51 pm
I was tooling around the internet Sunday night after chronicling my weekend adventure with our local healthcare protestors, clicking on a few links here and there, when I saw the picture that had tick...
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