I know that this is a weird and quite unusual statement, especially from a self-professed Christian. However, we always hear the statement, that Jesus is the reason for the season, and although I’m mostly in aggreance with that statement, I’d like to take that particular philosophy to task for a moment. Let’s go to work. Many [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Jesus Isn’t the Reason for the Season
Posted: December 25, 2007 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Pop Culture, Religion7
My Theology of Preaching, Pt. I
Posted: December 25, 2007 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Religion, Theology of PreachingMy cousin gave me True to Our Native Land, an African American New Testament Commentary as a Christmas present and I flipped through it and I saw names like Cleophus J. LaRue, Thomas Hoyt and Brad Braxton and since I had heard of these, among other names I was real interested in what my cousin [...]
Ron Paul’s thought-provoking choice on racist’s $$$
Posted: December 24, 2007 by the uppity negro in Politics, UncategorizedI know I haven’t posted in a few days, so I finally found something worth posting. Even though this really isn’t going to be a long post, I believe it bears mention on some other wide reaching issues as far as money given to people and other entities are considered. This was actually a blog [...]
Text message break ups
Posted: December 14, 2007 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroI remember I didn’t get my first cell phone until 2004, entering my junior year of college. I also have a good memory of sitting at the top of the stadium seats at a packed basketball game at Dillard and sitting next to my friend when my phone buzzed on my hip. I pulled it [...]
What did Andrew Young say about Sen. Barack Obama?
Posted: December 13, 2007 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color Line, UncategorizedFirst things first. You all should know that I don’t “do” FOXNews, but its the only regular news story that I could find that wasn’t an opinion piece. Now, lets deal with Ambassador Andrew Young. I read the story, and my issue wasn’t that Young felt comfortable enough to kid around about Bill Clinton’s alleged “blackness” [...]
I vividly remember the day that in my ninth grade biology that I suggested that we take all of the HIV/AIDS patients of the world and stick them on an island and we wouldn’t have this problem any more. It was in a group project that the members of my group were stunned to say [...]
Christian groups slam new Kidman children’s movie
Posted: December 5, 2007 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, ReligionI’ll never understand the “religious right” here in the United States. Understandably, Christianity is the predominant religion here in this country, but I fail to see how the “religious right” in fact has the right to act as the final arbiter on all things religious. The fact that conservative Christians, and even Roman Catholics to some [...]
I’ve yet to have weighed in on this issue and since I was scrolling my usual haunts online, I decided to provide this story. This particular story does include my viewpoint of how I feel on the issue of sagging pants, but I can speak from my own 23-year-old self. If I feel the need [...]
