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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 the recent explosion [...] Read Full Story

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…. Read Full Story

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, that he would follow the Bush model and extend [...] Read Full Story

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 compared to what? What [...] Read Full Story

The following post was directed at one facebook friend from another: The U.S. is not at war with anyone and that is a fact, there is no declaration of war, no country or entity attacked the US, ONLY the US attacks others on this pretense that something occurred that gave it justification to do so, which [...] Read Full Story

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 of who Obama is and what he [...] Read Full Story

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. Well, it was a warning, but [...] Read Full Story

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 voted for you as our heir apparent, [...] Read Full Story

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 this one: Now, most of these additions to the trash in my feed [...] Read Full Story

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 most beloved civil rights leaders.  The review [...] Read Full Story