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Jul 13, 2011, 3:10 pm
The deregulation began with Reagan and ended with Clinton, Bushies cashed in, Obama bailed out. That’s what we call an overview. The CRA began in the 1970′s and only required that banks make a percentage of loans to folks who make up the majority of their depositers. This in no way accounts for... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2011, 5:53 pm
As most of you already know, most new blog posts will be up at http://breakingbrown.com. However, this will still be a spot for random meanderings. Still sorting things out…. Comment - Like
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May 21, 2011, 1:31 pm
Backstory: Folks think Obama’s the anti-Bush because Obama positioned himself as the anti-Bush. No mistake there… but the Obama administration accuses liberals of having expectations that are too high when in fact, the benchmark was set by the Obama 2008 campaign. If Obama had told the truth, t... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2011, 10:49 pm
The fact that we live in the greatest democracy in the world means nothing. The fact, however, that we don’t fully engage our brains on a consistent basis is indicative of something. And that “something” is what we should be sniffing out. America’s democracy may very well be the best, but ... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2011, 2:28 pm
Yes, Obama released his long form birth certificate but this birther story doesn’t matter now and it didn’t much matter when I blogged about it in ’09. Obama is handing the left and African Americans a useless symbolic victory. Whoever the birthers are (racists) doesn’t answer the question o... Comment - Like
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Apr 24, 2011, 2:34 pm
It’s ALL just too much now. Too much food, too much hero-worship (see Obama) and too much EXTRA. It’s hard to see the bottom line when you’re over the top. Take Senator Tom Coburn’s righteous proclamation that America’s S&P downgrade was a “warning shot across the bow” for example. Wel... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2011, 4:32 pm
Difference between African American intellectuals and Sharpton: Most AA intellectuals have walked the walk. To those caught up in Sharpton’s self interested matrix, “walking the walk” is howling in the streets or going on The Ed Show to speak for millions of black and brown people who never ... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2011, 11:11 am
Judging from the increasingly annoying influx of Obama propaganda found in Facebook my feed, I can only assume it’s “Obama-time” again: Shrug. Among the annoying Republican-centric (Obama) campaign commercials streaming vertically down my page are silly “RA-RA- GO TEAM” updates such as... Comment - Like
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Apr 7, 2011, 3:10 pm
In a New York Times book review of Manning Marable’s just released biography on Malcolm X, it is revealed that Marable’s quintessential work is embedded with a Trojan horse that, once installed and released, will eviscerate the long held – and mostly cosmetic –representation of one of our mo... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2011, 1:53 pm
A recent biography of Gandhi is much less flattering than the status quo representation of the man who created the prototype for the Civil Rights Movement. According to the biography written by Joseph Lelyveld, Ghandi reacted to black South Africans with disdain. Consider this quote from “Grea... Comment - Like
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Mar 24, 2011, 1:17 pm
Rules were broken, cash diverted, and the unions went, well – home. You can say that they’re all somewhere huddled up, planning for a recall fight or a court fight, but they’re not fighting NOW. And the longer Gov. Walker’s union busting plan remains in place, the more firmly secure it is in... Comment - Like
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Mar 18, 2011, 1:06 am
Posted on my Facebook by Darryl, this is the best explanation of the mental dysfunction exhibited by the right wing that I’ve read in all of my soon to be 36 years. Sometimes people just say things better than you can, or ever could. I acknowledge clarity on the rare instance that I stumble upon Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2011, 2:16 pm
I really don’t enjoy seeing men or women cry in the course of doing business. It doesn’t much matter if you are a sitting congressman (Rep Ellison) detailing the story of a Muslim first responder or a candidate for president (Hillary Clinton) replying to a rather banal question. Don’t cry. Be ... Comment - Like
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Mar 2, 2011, 4:26 pm
In the January 29 issue of the New York Times, I was met with the news that the biracial and multiracial classes are still as confused about their identify as they’ve always been. The self-indulgent 2.0 version of “Imitation of Life” reared its ugly head for the gazillionth time in a four page... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2011, 5:30 pm
Quote from Diddy: “I love the president like most of us. I just want the president to do better. There’s a difference between us voting for somebody and us believing in somebody. He’s the person that we believed in so I pray night and day that he understands how God ordained his presidency. I ... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2011, 5:44 pm
If you have an hour or so, click on the link below to see what REAL debate looks like in a country where policies and views are exchanged with passion and veracity. For the most part, this doesn’t exist in America. The question we should be asking ourselves is ‘how’. How did America get here. Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2011, 7:42 pm
Posted earlier to my Facebook Page. Hackers have the tools to disrupt the systemic systems which empower super-elites. This is not to say that we shouldn’t take to the streets; such actions would prove helpful and necessary at this juncture. But hackers have a broader field on which to play. A f... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2011, 3:30 pm
Keith Olbermann’s out and Lawrence O’Donnell’s in. The commentator who saw his “special comments” go virul and who has been a consistent and principled critic of the Obama administration has been replaced by a center-right Obama apologist. It’s all downhill from here folks. Next up: the ... Comment - Like
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Jan 11, 2011, 12:03 pm
Fans of The Daily Show appreciate it when Jon says a thing about a thing – good or bad – but always funny. Juxtapose that expectation with last night’s meandering mess. Last night Jon zig-zagged around Saturday’s shooting in a tiresome effort not to be accusatory of anything or anyone. His... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2011, 2:08 pm
Unless you’re plugged into the feeds of international news organizations or you get your news directly from the Wikileaks site, you wouldn’t know that many of the Wikileaks cables delve deeply into issues which impact the continent of Africa and other brown and black countries. You wouldn’t kn... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 6:59 pm
On December 9, 1981, in Philadelphia, near the intersection of 13th and Locust Streets, police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and murdered and Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and injured. Albert Magilton, a pedestrian, said he didn’t see the murder but witnessed Faulker pull over Mumia Abu-Jamal’s br... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2010, 1:22 pm
I don’t care what Will.I.Am told you, today is not a new day. Even worse, President Obama is only a sleeker, more web saavy 2.0 version of Bush, and voting in the 2010 midterms will only make things worse, not better. VIEW FULL POST HERE Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Stumble upon something go... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2010, 9:32 pm
Have you heard the good news? America is no longer in the “midst of a spiritual awakening and moral renewal.” Predictability is out the window, surrealness reigns supreme. These days, would be politicians have nothing to fear because erratic behavior and a pattern of lying simply d... Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2010, 4:52 pm
What do you do when a goal is extremely unlikely? It really depends on how comfortable you are with being unimpressive and not good enough. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again…unless you’re black, in which case, just quit. It’s not as if we mind public ridicule.... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2010, 3:08 pm
What Should’ve Happened: You are a human being. That quality alone should assure your freedom. What Happened: Through the political processes of delay, manipulation, and collusion, you’ve been robbed of your freedom. Well, I shouldn’t say that you’ve been robbed because in or... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2010, 6:29 pm
A goal is an old decision. Rebranding a decision as a goal only adds emotional distance between the decision and the reality. This is why most people feel comfortable abandoning decisions once they become goals. Goals are fuzzy mental machinations which are dependent upon circumstances. Goals can ... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2010, 6:45 pm
…….so began a research paper written by top White House economic adviser Larry Summers in the 1980’s. This paper, more than any of Summers’ previous assertions, marked the beginning of his messiah complex. No wonder that he and Obama would click so quickly…. How is it that Summer... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2010, 5:24 pm
There’s been much ado as of late about the invisibility of America’s poor. Let Obama tell it, the only community which deserves his administration’s tender loving care is the middle class. The battle cry which thundered during the era of MLK and JFK has been hushed to a whisper. Has America fo... Comment - Like
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