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Re: http://bigthink.com/Resurgence/is-the-life-of-julia-ad-really-that-bad

Brown Man — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:56:18 -0000

http://www.270towin.com/sta...

Since the 1950s, Kentucky has been reliably Republican,
although its voters have been willing to vote Democratic when a southern
governor has run – the state voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and for Bill
Clinton in both 1992 and 1996. In 2008, John McCain defeated Barack Obama 57%
to 41%.

http://www.270towin.com/sta...

Since the 1950s, Republicans have usually won here, although
there have been a few exceptions, most recently Bill Clinton (with home-state
Senator Al Gore as vice president) in 1992 and 1996. Interestingly, Mr. Gore
lost the state in 2000 when he headed the Democratic ticket. In 2008, John
McCain defeated Barack Obama by a margin of 57% to 42%

Re: Win A Free Copy Of American Uprising: The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt

Brown Man — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:17:18 -0000

Thanks guys for participating - this is my first book giveaway - it didn't hit me until this morning that there had to be some kind of procedure for doing this. Luckily, the internet was at my disposal.

This is fun - I may have to start reviewing more books.

Re: GOP Refuses To Read "Three Fifths Of A Man" Section Of Constitution On CSPAN

Brown Man — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:07:12 -0000

Rick, this is not an amendment - it is the second section of the very first article of the ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION that your framers all put their John Hancocks on.

The subjugation of African Americans was not an adjunct of American life - it was an integral part of the original architecture of this nation. Federal legislation specifically devised to protect the economic and social investments white America had in slavery, Jim Crow and segregation has been systemically enacted against the interests of African Americans for almost all of this country's history, save the last forty odd years.

These things are self evident.

Quantifying my anger is irrelevant - quantifying what the lack of a serious and sustained initiative to right these wrongs, a hundred year initiative that should be funded with the hundreds of billions we waste trying to subdue other brown people in foreign lands will ultimately cost America, is what white Americans who are concerned about what kind of country their grandchildren will live in should be doing, because black Americans aren't going anywhere.

Re: Political Payback, Thy Name Is TEMPORARY

Brown Man — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:53:33 -0000

Like I said, there are only two kinds of people who read this blog regularly - people like me who wholeheartedly support President Obama, even when he makes mistakes, and people who hate Barack Obama's guts so much they would love nothing better than to see this Negro president reduced to shining their damn shoes.

You can guess which group this commenter who calls himself "Honky" fits in.

I'm back on the scene 30 minutes and the haters are showing up.

I knew they were missing me.

It doesn't matter though, FOR TONIGHT, WE RIDE!!

Re: Sharron Angle, You Ignorant Slut.

Brown Man — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:15:56 -0000

Sharon Angle, Christine O'Donnell, the Linda McMahon, that woman from North Carolina who is worried to death about a damn "victory" mosque -

-we won, you trick ass bitches! Your m**therf**cking president is black AND smarter than you.

Sharon Angle will probably melt into a puddle like the bad witch in the Wizard of Oz after she loses her election.

Christine O'Donnell will probably get her a couple of briefcases to stuff all her left over campaign cash in and buy her a black leather jacket with all them Members Only zippers like her heroine, Sarah Palin.

And that crazy chick in North Carolina? If she needs emergency surgery someday, after she gets her ass waxed in her race, she will hope Dr. Mustapha doesn't hold the nasty ass rhetoric she spewed during her campaign against her.

Re: Monday Open Thread

Brown Man — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:48:16 -0000

Re: Tea Party Comix No Laughing Matter

Brown Man — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:47:38 -0000

Team,

you have offered even less evidence than I have, but are ready to make a positive I.D. I hope you never get the opportunity to testify about someone's guilt or innocence when a real crime is committed.

The thing that cracks me up the most about you guys, though, is how willing you are to try to use the names "Move.org" and "George Soros" at every opportunity, as if they mean something to anyone outside of the confines of right wing bizarro world.

I mean, the rich guys you are willing to play lap dog for deserve the divine right of kings to do as they please because they have lots of money, according to your credo. Because they are all John Galt's in an Ayn Rand world, correct? Since Mr. Soros seems to handily meet that prerequisite, wouldn't that make him a Galt too, capable of charting his own course?

Re: Artur Davis: What Went Wrong

Brown Man — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:40:21 -0000

I just got off the phone with my dad about South Carolina politics to see this, and I'll say the same thing I said to him (he's a Repub).

Black candidates for political office in this cycle have about as much in common with the Obama campaign as the man in the moon.

None of them, incumbents or challengers, used his blueprint of broadening their message to be more inclusive, building a grassroots presence, decentralizing their campaign team authority, indoctrinating a core of true believers to spread their gospel, or integrating the web into every aspect of their campaigns.

None of them.

Millions of Obama supporters - some black, some white, some latino, some asian, some indian - almost all of them are sitting at home right now. The ones I talk to are looking for something to do, because they liked the sense of being on an important mission it gave them.

Replicating the kind of mission statement Obama had for a lesser office would be hard, but it is doable. Mobilizing the kind of enthusiastic core group of supporters, even in smaller numbers, is expensive, time consuming, and slow to come together. But now we know it can be done.

So why isn't ANYONE, from Deval Patrick on down, doing any of this? Do their political consultants have a multi-year non-compete clause in their contracts that says "you are obligated to pay my lazy, myopic ass a huge penalty fee if you refuse my services for your next election?"

You wouldn't know Thurbert Baker was running for the governor of Georgia if it wasn't for a slow news day once in awhile, where the local news trots out the canned shots of the candidates.

Black candidates are finally raising enough money to be competitive, but until they begin to mobilize communities instead of trying to beat the man at his own game of Big Money Donor Bingo and Major Endorsement Dog and Pony Shows, they need to take a picture of Obama's coattails, because that's as close as they are going to get to them.

"Obama 'cain't do nuthin' for ya, man',
if all you can do,
my Negro Candidates,
is be black
and holler "yes we can."

Re: Friday Open Thread

Brown Man — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:47:59 -0000

I've lusted after being a writer for The Grio for a long time, even though it gets me closer to being a part of the media I rail against on my blog all the time. Nothing like contradictory impulses.

Anyway, today, I finally made it.

The real battle for Supreme Court diversity is in the trenches

"In our own era, race and gender have defined so much of our politics," said Jeffrey Toobin, author of the The Nine, an in-depth study of the Supreme Court's history, as he opined about diversity in an article in The New Yorker last year. Toobin described the nation's current obsession with race and gender diversity as yet another manifestation of an age old practice that began with a concern for regional diversity and evolved into a call for religious diversity.

Most of the arguments that will ensue in the coming weeks and months over Solicitor General Elena Kagan, recently chosen by President Obama as his nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, will revolve around racial or gender diversity. Although Kagan was nominated despite a complete lack of judicial experience, the real battleground for diversity on the Supreme Court begins in the trenches - in our nation's state courts and federal district courts.

Read more...

Although the article tends towards the pedestrian variety you see in genarl news mags, I was able to get in a smoking coda at the end to punctuate the topic.

Anyway, I'm in the mix.

Brown Man

Re: AFRO First Edition: Sean Yoes And Kris Broughton Talk Politics Tonite At 8

Brown Man — Sun, 09 May 2010 15:53:03 -0000

Sorry for the late reply, Jim - this show is taped on Friday mornings, so the interview was in the can when I got your email - and the host sets the agenda.

But I write for various publications - may be able to do an interview with your people in the near future when I am doing a piece on mortgages.

Re: W.E.E. Peeps Saturday Link Sweep (1st Day of Spring Edition)

Brown Man — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:33:31 -0000

Only people from Carolina say "cracker-ass-cracker" without missing a beat. My boy from New York almost fell out of his chair the first time I said it. I was looking at CAC going "what the hell?" until my brain kicked in.

Re: AB Goes To A TeaParty. Accidentally.

Brown Man — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:16:57 -0000

Hilarious! Your boys are going to have nightmares.

I'm glad they can protest, and I'm glad I can protest their protesting.

One day these people are going to wake up and realize they are in the same boat that black folks are in with white skin.

Re: W.E.E. Peeps Tuesday Link Sweep

Brown Man — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:33 -0000

I might have to steal this -- "Reasons Why Fauxgressives Can Kiss My Black Ass" -- for a blog title somewhere down the road.

Just letting you know that line rings true as clear as a bell

Re: The Video Vixen Color Complex.

Brown Man — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:52:40 -0000

I don't know who this Cassidy person is - my rap knowledge starts to fade out after '95 - but he is right. There is a difference from a technical standpoint of lighting people whose skin is darker versus people whose skin is lighter.

If you search "Bernie Mac key light", you will find some interesting discussions about the challenge they had on his show of lighting his face more so all the faces in a shot could be seen the way your eye sees people.

Interesting video - fairly provocative look at age old question.

And since when did "video vixen" become an occupation?

Re: Racial Discrimination: The Reality Show Version

Brown Man — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:40:46 -0000

Its all me - 99% of this blog's content is handmade, one obstinate sentence at a time.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Brown Man

Re: Things I Learned From Watching MSNBC's "Obama's America"

Brown Man — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:47:01 -0000

Saw 20 minutes of this - the woman professor in the red blouse with the attitude near the end not only was as aggravating as shit - she doesn't realize SHE is a part of the problem.

Otherwise, you read my mind pretty much point for point - I might have to post a link to this at my place.

Re: The Brown Man Is On YouTube

Brown Man — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:01:13 -0000

I was supposed to do something new for the new year. I think this is it - Blowing Smoke will be an irregularly produced video that comes out when something strikes me.

But really, all I do is read the words I write for a post and ad some pictures - it is dynamic, but the words themselves haven't changed.

Re: The Brown Man Is On YouTube

Brown Man — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:29:07 -0000

Yep - @BrownManATL

Re: Media Promotes Flawed Haiti Narrative. A “must watch/listen” by BrownManThinkingHard

Brown Man — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:52:01 -0000

Jack,

Thanks for putting this out there - I am having a hard time watching the news these days when the announcers seem to be willfully ignoring the facts of history to sell their product.

Thank god for the internet!

Kris Broughton
Brown Man Thinking Hard

Re: Will "Pants on the Ground" go platinum? Will the brother get paid? Will he be able to afford Shannon Sharpe's suit?

Brown Man — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:16:34 -0000

I haven't heard "casket sharp" in forever - need to use that one soon - I still haven't checked this dude out and I'm from Atlanta.

Re: Senator Harry Reid’s ‘ Negro’ Problem

Brown Man — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:27:39 -0000

No probably too it - I live in Atlanta, where we have had FIVE black mayors - just elected the first one who looks like me.

This isn't anything anybody black doesn't already know - it is the kind of thing that is painful to accept because we can get and education, we can learn how to elucidate and enunciate, but we can't get any lighter skinned than we already are unless we are Michael Jackson.

Harry Reid told the truth and shamed the devil - awkwardly, but still, he did not do anything that any other political professional does when they weigh a candidates positives against their negatives. A candidate without a lot of bona fides when it comes to accomplishments has to trade on what he's got.

Adam Clayton Powell stood up for black people when he was in Congress like he was Kunta Kinte. A lot of the gains in the sixties were a result of his not backing down to the powers that be. And he was as white as a sheet of paper. So what?

Re: Time To Play Our Position, Not Be The Opposition

Brown Man — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:21:47 -0000

"I have not abandoned him."

That's all I'm asking.

I will be on the front line of Obama critics when I think it is necessary, the same way you will be, Max.

The people who have my blood pressure up are the ones I described above, who are entirely different animals.

At last count, he had exceeded Bush in the number of minorities in his admin, and the count, according to all the people in the know who watch these things, will be getting higher every month as holdovers quit or are relieved.

I mean, you could have had Hillary slapping PUMA's in every spot she could find.

This is an either/or game - either you are going to get this, or you will get that which you will probably like even less.

Re: How Obama Lost My Support. And How He Can Regain It. (Part I)

Brown Man — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:08:56 -0000

Come on, AB - NO president, white, black, or kryptonite enhanced could have hoped to tackle the laundry list you laid out.

Comparing any modern day president to anyone before Carter is a waste of time - the rise of cable TV and talk radio has turbo charged the national political conversation in a way that makes even the most mundane political task a Herculean effort - every time you turn around, there are a half a million twitters following your every move, and ten cable channels dedicated to nothing more than stirring up shit so the execs can afford to keep their kids they never get to see in rehab or professional student hood.

You know damn well why he got elected - because Obama WAS NOT a "warrior type" black leader. He's just like all the cats I spent most of my holidays around - law firm partners and senior associates or corporate flacks who get paid the big bucks because the folks who write their checks feel comfortable with them. The only pals I see who bust heads all own their own shops, and EVEN THEY have had to learn how to manage employees without rubbing them the wrong way, if they want to get any productivity out of them.

Obama is inside the organization. He IS the man, whether he pulls his dick out and shoves it up somebody's ass or simply ticks their name off a list on his desk.

This is the same old "gotta be hard" negro logic that gets two or three black males killed every week here in the ATL. We've got to give this "down by law at night", "down with the man by day" shit up. Our real lives are calling us, and WE ARE NOT JOJO DANCER. Not by a long shot.

When the fuck are we going to quit defining manhood and leadership by how hard we can crack a fucking whip and start understanding that it is what comes out in the wash at the end of the day that matters?

If you don't like some of the outcomes so far, fine. Neither do I. But in the reality based world the rest of us live in, there is no god damn way no fire breathing negro was going to be elected president IN THIS AMERICA WE HAVE TODAY.

You could have spotted the next ten black leaders 200 electoral votes and not a damn one of them would even come close to closing the deal. WE didn't elect Obama - it was a raggedy-ass coalition that drew from every demographic in the country outside of the cracker-assed crackers in my home state and the rest of the south.

I WAS PROUD TO HEAR OBAMA'S RETORT TO DICK CHENEY LAST WEEK. I wish it could be looped on top of a beat and used as a refrain in a rap song - the issues every president faces are much more complicated than what the spin doctors and Pablum R Us news shows can show because anything else would be a waste - the country at large doesn't have the knowledge base to understand anything more than "blue good, red bad".

I stood next to an attorney at a Xmas party a few weeks ago who pursed his lips when I mentioned politics. He said to me "Obama's stimulated everybody else. Why can't he stimulate me?"

This motherfucker holds a job that NO BLACK MEN OF NO KIND could even hope to get just forty years ago.

Politics isn't tech land, where you know what you know, or medicine, with a science base to balance out the guesswork - it is all hype and bullshit, a true reflection of how much we all lie to ourselves just to get through the day, except these guys have to wade through their bullshit on camera.

If you aren't smart enough to explain to your son why Obama is not only his president, but a leader sharp enough to juggle every fucking problem in the country and STILL bring us to the brink of pulling off the greatest Democratic political victory in decades, then maybe you need to turn your degree back in.

Thanks for the run, AB - I might have to use this rant as a post. First one of '10!

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Brown Man — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:30:58 -0000

Senator "DeMinted" Holds Top TSA Job Hostage

The Brown Man got himself some DISQUS for Christmas! Still tweaking it, but it looks like the damn thing is working.

But back to Deminted, who wants to talk out of both sides of his mouth at the same time - why is your Fourth Estate lollygagging when should be beating his ass to a pulp metaphorically with an endless barrage of questions about the damn contradictions he continues to spew?

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Brown Man — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:25:35 -0000

Senator "DeMinted" Holds Top TSA Job Hostage

The Brown Man gave his blog DISQUS for Christmas! Still tweaking it here and there but it works.

But back to biz - why the hell isn't the MSM blowing Jim DeMint out of the damn water over this shit? It ain't like he's from the NE - kicking southerners when they are down is still sport for eastern journalists, right?

So get to kickin that ass!