The Fire This Time
In a post-Katrina world, Katrina is now the modern benchmark for an unrepentant and aggregate failure of the federal government because of FEMA and state government because Baton Rouge and […]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
November 2nd, Blackout day – YEAH RIGHT!!!
This was an email that my mother sent me from a cousin. And I’m putting it out there that THIS DOES NOT WORK as far as I’m concerned. Let’s analyze […]
“Stop buying shoes for the little grasshopper Negroes.”
That is a quote, almost a direct quote rather, from my Ethics and Society professor here at the ITC, while in the midst of a jeremiad against the black church, […]
What Do I Really Mean By “Uppity Negro?”
I was raised in two parent household in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago—that alone qualifies me as solidly middle-class. And along with that upbringing, I’ve never once in my […]
Meet the Press vs. Meet the Cops
First, I want to deal with Mr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. At 9:50am on Sunday morning I rolled over and immediately turned on the television station that I get the […]
Hello world! Welcome to UNN–Uppity Negro Network
I’d like to welcome you to the launch of my first official blog. It originally was launched on October 15, 2007, but I’m not posting this until the next day. […]
