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		<title>What Racism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been one of the strangest years of my life, living in the U.S. after ten years in Cape Town, South Africa. I could write a million different blogs, with a million different angles on this year alone, but for now, I&#8217;ll keep it focused. I want to talk about racism. And I figured [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1524&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Wise on Myths of &#8220;Post-Racial&#8221; Politics&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2012/01/14/tim-wise-on-myths-of-post-racial-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish every American would take the time to listen to this lecture.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1522&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Wise: The Pathology of Privilege</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have posted an excerpt of this video before. It is worth posting in its entirety. Please take the time to read this transcript and/or watch (posted at the bottom) this incredible speech by Tim Wise. The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial &#38; the Costs of Inequality Transcript TIM WISE: I want to thank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Zakkie&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to emails informing me that one of my Cape Town kids, Zakkie, passed away. Gulp! On days like today I feel further away from South Africa than the geographical distance tells. I had to get the oil changed on my grandma&#8217;s car early this morning and I sat there in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1515&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over the Edge&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was riding in this minivan with a group of people I didn&#8217;t know that well. I mean, I actually didn&#8217;t know them at all, but there was a certain kindred spirit I had with them that made it feel like they were lifelong friends. The man who was driving was speeding down this narrow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1512&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been missing you&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2011/11/17/ive-been-missing-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew the Astronomical Kid was destined for stardom way before X Factor. What I liked most about the young passionate MC was that he represents a type of hiphop that you rarely see these days, at least amongst young people. And when I heard he was going to be on X Factor I wasn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1509&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sage Old Man&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2011/11/17/life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sage old man searched the world over for a book that said all of the things he&#8217;d always wanted to hear, but he came up short. That book did not exist. Unwilling to give up, the old man decided to write the book himself, and that he did. He spent years writing down all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1506&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNDUN &#8211; The Roots&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn’t born criminal. He’s not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner like Tupac’s character Bishop in Juice… he’s actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1501&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Astro&#8217;s Moment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2011/11/10/astros-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want a crisp, white t-shirt with this picture&#8230; &#8230;and &#8220;Taking hiphop back!&#8221; written on it, because that&#8217;s what this kid&#8217;s doing! What a breath of fresh air in this lame rap generation. I just wish X Factor would hurry up and get over with so the Astronomical Kid can get out there and do his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1493&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2011/11/07/grateful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a little kid I looked up to people in their thirties and thought they looked so old, and that they had everything together. I just assumed they knew everything, and understood how all this worked. By &#8220;all this&#8221; I mean life. Then I became a teenager, and thought I knew everything and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&amp;blog=9146302&amp;post=1489&amp;subd=thoughtsofbrown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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