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		<title>A Piece of Hate Cake&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2012/04/18/a-piece-of-hate-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw the Swedish minstrel cake fiasco this morning, I literally could not believe my eyes. It was one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a while. It was so completely offensive, on so many different levels. And then, of course, people&#8217;s responses to it online added to the offense, many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=1596&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guns and Words, and Words About Guns&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2012/02/19/guns-and-words-and-words-about-guns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtsofbrown.com/?p=1551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know it&#8217;s time to vote for a new president when Facebook is overrun with political banter. Statuses, pictures, posts, articles, videos, and other forms of cyber-soapboxing flood my newsfeed, stretching from the left to right. Pro-life, pro-choice, homophobes, gay rights, small government, big government, healthcare this, healthcare that, tax the rich, lockup the poor&#8230;oh, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=1551&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Racism?</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2012/01/16/what-racism/</link>
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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&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=1524&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson Mandela: You will always live in my heart!</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2011/01/27/nelson-mandela-you-will-always-live-in-my-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2011/01/27/nelson-mandela-you-will-always-live-in-my-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtsofbrown.com/?p=1258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No words can ever express my gratitude for the life lived, sacrifices made, and example shown by the life of Nelson Mandela, so I will simply say thank you, enkosi, siyabonga, ke a leboha, dankie! You are the great Lion of South Africa, now it&#8217;s time to rest on your throne.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=1258&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Cup&#8230;Xenophobia &#8211; Love the world. Slap Africa.</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/07/14/world-cup-xenophobia-love-the-world-slap-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/07/14/world-cup-xenophobia-love-the-world-slap-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>capetownbrown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a status on Facebook this morning that really resonated with me, “How can one country make you so happy and so sad all at the same time?”. I share those sentiments exactly. South Africa has just come out of the proudest month of its post-Apartheid existence. Against many odds, and with the sharp [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=960&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids who aspire to be gangsters, grow to be gangsters who aspire to be kids.</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/07/07/kids-who-aspire-to-be-gangsters-grow-to-be-gangsters-who-aspire-to-be-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/07/07/kids-who-aspire-to-be-gangsters-grow-to-be-gangsters-who-aspire-to-be-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“And then I found myself and this ‘dangerous’ gangster in the kiddies’ section of the video shop.” But first… Occasionally I get reminders of what a strange world I live in. And when I say “world” I don’t mean the big ball of dirt, water and gas, rotating, slightly tilted, on its axis. I’m talking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=945&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Does Not Perpetuate Racism. Racism Perpetuates Racism.</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/05/26/crime-does-not-perpetuate-racism-racism-perpetuates-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/05/26/crime-does-not-perpetuate-racism-racism-perpetuates-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 09:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night’s Sidewalk Talk show topic was racism. It’s quite a heated topic in South Africa at the moment, with recent events stroking the headlines, but in general, I find many South Africans do not want to speak about racism anymore. They feel it’s a tired and worn out topic. They want to “move on, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=824&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons of Indulgence Learned Through T-Pain, Me &amp; Clinton, and Some Random Kids</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/05/23/lessons-of-indulgence-learned-through-t-pain-me-clinton-and-some-random-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 14:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About six weeks back I took Clinton to apply for his South African ID Book. Last Thursday he got the text message from Home Affairs saying that his ID Book was ready for collection. He was pumped. I picked him up from school on Friday and we went straight to Home Affairs. Sure enough, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=808&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My South Africa</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2010/04/10/my-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Lindsay had to go to home affairs yesterday to sort out some paperwork for her newborn baby. Right when she left she called me to share a funny experience. It was too classic not to pass on… Like may institutions in South Africa, as you enter Home Affairs you have to go through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=723&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NICE music!</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofbrown.com/2009/08/20/nice-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in studio today working on a track with Chris, and he played me some music from a group he is busy recording. I was blown away! They are called NICE and that name is definitely an understatement of the quality, musical and lyrical depths, and unique style of this young group. Support them now before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofbrown.com&#038;blog=9146302&#038;post=396&#038;subd=thoughtsofbrown&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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