Archive | April, 2008

A Sad Day For Uppity Negroes: The Day Obama threw Wright under the bus

29 Apr

Per The Black Snob’s list perhaps the “under the bus” phrase is over-used, however, I believe the metaphor makes sense:  Today we saw the clash of two uppity Negroes, members of the black elite have a bitter divorce on television.

Perhaps this is the bus Obama threw Jeremiah Wright under.

I’ll always remember the day, April 29th when in the middle of my Healing Miracles oral final exam when my friend sent me the text message that sealed the divorce between Sen. Barack Obama and Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.  I figured it was going to come either today or tomorrow pending whether or not Wright had made another public appearance or not.  Whatever the situation, I felt that this time Obama was going to do what was politically expedient.

This is where I have aught with Senator Obama, and not Rev. Wright.

To this uppity Negro, it seemed as though Wright had mentally divorced Obama with the first race speech Obama gave back in March.  This thereby freed him to have the National Press Club press conference and be the flippant individual that he can often be without consequence.  Frankly, I was on his side because I got past the grandstanding that is Jeremiah Wright and I listened to the words that he had to say and listened to the issues that he was bringing to the table.   Personally, I think the flippant comment that he asked the young woman reading the questions “Did you hear the whole sermon?…No?  Then that nullifies the whole question” was brilliant.  How DARE someone have the audacity to pose a question out of context.  The fact that we live in a society that operates off of soundbytes screams in the face of truth and fairness–we’re operating on half-truths, which in turn on half-lies!

Well, what is my aught with Obama?  It’s plain and simple: he’s refusing to be true to himself.

[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/24371963#24371963]

Frankly, I don’t care if John McCain or Hillary Clinton became president as a result of all this, I really don’t; there are far greater issues than the presidency at stake here as far as I’m concerned.  If Obama had denounced Rev. Wright again, but somehow been able to deal with the issues that Rev. Wright had brought up as far as “different not meaning deficient” and the issues of “the Black Church” then perhaps he would have lost Indiana and North Carolina proving him ultimately un-electable.  But for me, as long as those issues had been brought to the forefront of the American conscious I would have said “Job well done Senator.”

Need black America remember that for some reason Obama did not feel it necessary to go to Memphis to celebrate the death (did I just type “celebrate the death” –wow, we really are messed up in this country) of Martin Luther King on April 4th, 2008 even while John McCain stood and gave a speech in the pouring Memphis rain amidst boos from a mostly black crowd? 

(I should be real mean and bring this up, shouldn’t I?  *laughs maniacally*)

The fact that Tavis Smiley is sitting somewhere saying “I told you so” along with Dr. Cornell West, because Obama didn’t attend the State of the Black Union.  And to this point, yes I sided with Obama as far as a legitimate reason for not going, however, I defended Tavis as well by saying Tavis was well within his rights to criticize Obama for not attending.

The ultimate question on my mind and I’m sure many other blacks in this country is this: When the next racial flare-up happens (as is sure to happen, I mean, this is the United States) will Obama pander because he’s not the president of the United States of Black America, but rather the president of the United States of America including everyone? 

Frankly, I’m going out on a limb and saying this guy can’t be trusted in the black community. 

So, yes, it is a very sad day for the Uppity Negro Network and many other uppity Negroes across this country and abroad, as the UNN now officially ends Obamawatch! 2008 on April 29th, 2008 approximately at 9PM EDT, as this Network now is officially throwing Barack Obama under the bus, as The Black Snob suggested “shoved into the subway” or just be toally black about it and “pull a driveby” on his ass!  This reeks of politics as usual for those of us in the black community: white politicians and blacks who affectionately call Uncle Tom’s essentially grabbing us by the wrist and bending over to us saying “Naughty, naughty, naughty!  I ought to wash out your mouth with soap for saying that!” and then giving us a swat on the backside, sending us back to our crib.

can someone PLEASE do a political cartoon of that!

I think Obama could truly take a lesson from Jeremiah Wright: be true to God and to himself, and no one else; not a Congress, not the white middle-class voters of Indiana, nor even the black community.  If his being true to himself happens to lie within one of those contexts, then so be it. 

Clearly Jeremiah Wright has no problems speaking on his convictions and neither should Sen. Barack Obama.

Keep it uppity, and keep it radically true, JLL

In Defense of the Black Church: America’s chickens are coming home to roost

28 Apr

Wow!

I really didn’t expect to wake up at 10:30am to my friend calling me telling me that Jeremiah Wright had yet again found himself in a live news media frenzy at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  But, I’m going to keep this short, it’s finals week and per my cousin, I discovered people don’t like to read a lot.

In a nutshell, in the last 12 hours, Jeremiah Wright has gotten more news media coverage than wildfires and the three presidential candidates combined.  It’s about time that the black community has the national platform to bring many of these issues to the forefront. The reason why Wright said that “this is an attack against the black church” is because most of what he’s saying is what gets preached from countless black folks in small towns and large cities.  Although we’re not a monolithic people, I think the fact that church attendance rates have gone up in Chicago, whether it was because of the novelty of it all, and the fact that he garnered record numbers at Friendship West in Dallas and at the NAACP fundraiser in Detroit kind of dismiss the myth of him being a cult leader.

And yet again, we see FoxNews media operating on soundbytes again, I guess that’s a lost cause expecting them to be fair about the entire speech in context–I give up!

Of course Whoopi Goldberg about came across the table this morning when Elizabeth Hasselbeck talked about her attending a black church, therefore making her qualified to speak on it.  This was right after Whoopi lauded Wright for saying that it was wonderful that Wright had used the metaphor about the “dozens” and how he refused to let the media and others just talk about the religion and tradition that his mother and father lived and worked in. (oops, that’s a preposition, oh well.)

All that being said, I will repeat myself yet again for the second time in this third post: anyone who thinks that Jeremiah Wright is alone in speaking about this, there are countless black women and men who preach and subscribe to this liberation theology and come from the tradition of the black church.  Don’t think that he stands alone.

OHHHHH!!!

And for the record, the true initial quote of “chickens coming home to roost” was from a MALCOLM X speech in 1963–not from some FoxNews commentator.  In fact Wright was merely saying that he was not the only person who viewed 9/11 as a result of America’s interesting foreign policy that seemingly states that we can do whatever we want to under the guise of democracy, to whomever, but once the criticism and the attacks come home, then all of a sudden there is a big problem.

Keep it uppity, and keep it radical, JLL

For further reading, check out my other posts:

Coded Language in the Black Church, Obama’s Pastor Uncovers the Reality of a Second America, Easy like…um, Sunday Morning 

I Can’t Fit Gap Underwear!!!

28 Apr

At first I don’t know why this thought popped into my head, but as I sat down, with my church clothes on waiting for my calzone last night, I realized why.  Granted I’ve put on about 25lbs from when I first bought the gray slacks from Express in fall of 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, but I’m convinced they really don’t make clothes that accomodate the curves that are indicative of our African heritage.

So, to all those that say why do young men wear baggy clothes, I am here to say that, even black men have the preponderrance to have–shall we say, a little extra in some places that Gap and Express have not accomodated for. 

Let me speak from personal experience.

I bought a pair of Gap underwear, paid $12 bucks for it (I must have come into some good money if I spent 12 on a pair of underwear at that time) and when I wore them, they kept on sliding down.  I thought maybe it was the size, but I checked and realized it fit my waist just fine, but, um…other things, while walking and sitting were preventing it from staying in its proper position.  Again, last Christmas, I went to Old Navy and attempted to try on some slacks that were well within my waist and length size, but yet again, these slacks were NOT going to make it past what I had on my backside, and I could only imagine what irreparable damage it would have done squeezing you know what.

So, I don’t know how countless black men survived in years previous when they wore their pants at their waist consistently and wore what appears to be very constricting jeans and slacks.  I’m VERY thankful for the hip-hop generation bringing baggy clothes to the forefront of the black community.  Granted I’m still wavering as to whether or not older members are making a big deal about sagging as far as non-professional attire and settings are concerned, and I’m 100% against legislation that bans it, I think on some minor level it serves a function.  A function that I’m greatful for.

So, on a lighter note, keep it uppity and keep it radical, JLL

Should Jeremiah Wright be quiet?

28 Apr

Let me respond to that question early on in this post with a resounding HELL NAH!

Honestly, I thought he should have been quiet as far as the Bill Moyers interview was concerned, however I am quite pleased that he did.  I think that in fact that this Jeremiah Wright spat has in fact taken on a life of its own outside of his connection to Obama.  Well, at least for me it has.  We now see Jeremiah Wright coming under fire for his particular critique about this North American society in the United States.

First I want to give a critique of his speech at the NAACP regional meeting in Detroit on April 27th and give some thoughts on his SERMON at Friendship West Baptist Church (aka the Wild Wild West) earlier that day.  I then want to further speak about the dumbassification of the political punditry (mostly in the guise of FoxNews Network), and ultimately provide the proper context, yet again (I fail to see why some white folk don’t understand context….wait, i’ll talk about that later) from which many African Americans, including Jeremiah Wright speak.

Let’s get to work.

Honestly, I actually had a problem with something Jeremiah Wright said tonight, and it was pointed out to me via Bill Cunningham (yes the same nut that made sure to emphasize Obama’s middle name at a Weathervane McCain rally, much to McCain’s chagrin), a radio show that I was flipping through on Atlanta’s AM dial as I went to go get my Sunday night calzone from Fellini’s.  It was a FoxNews station, but as we all know I try and listen to the “fair and balanced [my foot]” reports.  The soundbyte that was excerpted from the NAACP speech was how Wright made the assertion that we as Africans and African Americans have a tendency to learn with our right brains as opposed to Europeans and European Americans who learn with their left brains.

He continued to dig his own grave by saying that when desegregation occurred the white teachers were more than appalled when black kids couldn’t sit at their desks and stay still and “climbed up on ‘em.”  Now the “‘em” or “them” in question is just that–in question.  Right wingers interpret the “them” as desks meanwhile I interpreted “them” as the teachers.  I mean, what white teacher would have wanted a lil’ black child climbing all up on them back in the 50′s especially if it was a teacher who had to work at a school that once was all white and was now desegregated. 

That soundbyte could easily have been misinterpreted.

But yet again–soundbytes truly negate context.  He went on to say that as a result of African aural and oral traditions, socialized and passed down throught the generations, this is why subjective learning is more apropos for those of us in the black community.  Different does not mean deficient.

So, much to my chagrin, as I was turning back onto campus with my piping hot calzone wafting its aroma through my car, a black caller, 50 miles outside of Detroit in Ohio called the Bill Cunningham show and said to the effect that Jeremiah Wright doesn’t speak for most of black America due to him subscribing to black liberation theology and that he’s a part of the “subculture of black culture.”

Even Cunningham didn’t buy that one.

Cunningham responded and said “Well how do you explain the 10,000 this morning [at Friendship West] or the 10,000 tonight at the NAACP event when normally it would have been 3,000.  People paying $150 a plate.”  To which the caller responded “Well, I’m 50 miles from Detroit and I didn’t know about it [the NAACP event].”

I guess not.

But, I want to drive home Wright’s point about education.  Granted the vast majority of us uppity Negroes engage our left brain just as much as our right brain, but I think his example in regards to the hip hop culture was appropriate.  Young Raekwon at seven can memorize the lyrics of what he hears on the radio (aural) and from trying to learn them because he sees his older brother, cousin, mother, father, sister encouraging him and he’s able to recite (orally) the lyrics.  But, you sit a workbook in front him, and tell him to do math problems 4-17 to help him learn double-digit addition and we have a problem that results in “climbing on desks” to show that  “HEY TEACHER!!!! This is NOT the best way of learning for me!”  And multiply that times 17 with the number or young black boys in the classroom–you do the math.

Secondly, as an aside, I think I will include the dumbassification of political punditry about this comment about Rev. Wright at Friendship West today.  They (FoxNews and CNN) kept on saying “speech” when they should have been saying sermon.  A sermon is when one preaches, usually with the main text being the Bible; the regional NAACP meeting was a speech, where the text was Wright’s collective lived experiences that allowed him to say that “I am not one of the most divisive” black spiritual leaders, he said. “I’m one of the most descriptive.”

I’m not sure if this is the result of pure stupidity and naivete or is it a true insult by diminishing Wright’s earned degrees, discounting him as an irate, crazy and divisive black man and negating his role as an ordained minister.  Because for many, they fail to recognize him as an ordained reverend, just as I fail to recognize Jesse Lee Peterson of FoxNews ilk, as an ordained reverend, but of course I think I have good cause.  (There’s no where on Peterson’s website that even acknowledges he went to high school, let alone has a church and ordained by whom!)   Whatever the case may be, it results in the further dumbassification of political punditry.

Why is it that we’re satisfied with mainstream thought.  For what its worth, I appreciate Newt Gingrich because he’s far enough right to really make conservatism convincing for some without placating to the center–we know where he stands–and usually he brings and argument to the table that operates from some logic that most will acknowledge.  Granted it may lead to a faulty conclusion, I still take it for some attempt to reverse dumbassness in the political arena.  Now an Ann Coulter–that’s divisive!  Nuff said.

But off of the top of my head, by in large, we fail to recognize those who don’t fall into mainstream categories of our worldview.  So in fact, we really are saying that different is in fact deficient.  So, from now on, if you have listened to the entire sermon clips of Jeremiah Wright as far as him proclaiming that God shall damn America if x, y and z happens and still feel the same way as you did before–that’s he’s an old crazy, divisive cook–then GOOD!  at least you made an informed decision and that’s all I’m complaining about.  But it seems to me that as a result of the dumbassification process, we’ve forgotten how to make informed decisions about our opinions.  We base our opinions off of others opinions, rather than facts.  For even reality is based upon one’s perception.

Ultimately, as I said in premier Jeremiah Wright post, if white America thinks Jeremiah Wright was some lone voice in the wilderness, then beware because we’re out there, and Black America has been waiting for the platform to speak from our context about our own content.  I believe Soledad O’Brien (as a sidebar, Roland Martin looked absolutely laughable with the white dashiki he had on) hit the nail on the head when she was about to come through the camera on one of CNN’s Republican strategist after the the Detroit speech by saying (to the effect) that Jeremiah Wright “took this opportunity to define himself rather than allow himself to be defined by others.”

Um…can someone call Dr. Maulana Karenga and tell him to sue for copyright infringement because that sounds like the 2nd Kwanzaa principle of Kugichagulia, Self-determination:

I will participate in the defining of ourselves, naming of ourselves and speaking for ourselves instead of being defined and spoken for by others.

Speak on Jeremiah Wright.

Keep it uppity, and keep it radical, JLL

Presidential debates on TV in peril

23 Apr

Meh, it’s finals and I don’t feel like writing as much as I used to.  My right hand/wrist seems to be threatening Carpal’s tunnel syndrome and I DON’T need that with 15 page papers due.  So I find other’s articles and post them.  Check out this Clarence Page article about the debates that I never got a chance to write about.

Keep it uppity, and keep it radical, JLL

Presidential debates on TV in peril

april 23, 2008, by Clarence Page

There may not be any more presidential debates between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, partly because of the bad aroma that ABC’s interrogation before Pennsylvania’s primary left behind in many noses.

In fact, when you consider the rising risks that televised debates pose in the age of YouTube, especially for front-runners, we’ll be lucky to see any more presidential debates at all.

North Carolina‘s Democratic Party has canceled the debate that CBS had hoped to broadcast on April 27, in advance of the state’s May 6 primary. It was expected to be the last of what seems to be an endless string of primary face-offs. Clinton had agreed to it, but Obama wouldn’t commit. Clinton’s campaign criticized Obama for that, but he told reporters that he would rather spend his time meeting voters. Considering the pummeling he took on ABC, who could blame him?

Besides, he said, after 21 debates the two candidates can recite each other’s lines by heart. Right. That’s the trouble. If they did recite each other’s lines, the two liberal Democrats wouldn’t sound all that much different from how they sound now, at least, not on the big important issues. As a result, they almost invite questions about the small stuff, the hot-button “gotcha” questions that make exciting television.

Obama looked like he’d rather be any place other than the Pennsylvania debate, a heat-seeking scandal probe moderated by ABC anchormen Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. For about half of its 90 minutes, Obama faced questions that gave more importance to whether he likes wearing American flag lapel pins than how he would deal with job losses, health care, the Iraq war or rising fuel prices.

Clinton seemed only slightly more at ease as she pushed herself through yet another explanation and apology for exaggerating the sniper fire she never actually encountered in Bosnia.

…for more of this article click here!

My Vote’s for Obama (if I could vote)

22 Apr

My Vote’s for Obama (if I could vote) …by Michael Moore

 

Friends,

I don’t get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn’t get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.

So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote — and yours — on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?

I haven’t spoken publicly ’til now as to who I would vote for, primarily for two reasons: 1) Who cares?; and 2) I (and most people I know) don’t give a rat’s ass whose name is on the ballot in November, as long as there’s a picture of JFK and FDR riding a donkey at the top of the ballot, and the word “Democratic” next to the candidate’s name.

Seriously, I know so many people who don’t care if the name under the Big “D” is Dancer, Prancer, Clinton or Blitzen. It can be Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Barry Obama or the Dalai Lama.

Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I’ve watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name “Farrakhan” out of nowhere, well that’s when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the “F” word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama’s pastor does — AND the “church bulletin” once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin!

This sleazy attempt to smear Obama was brilliantly explained the following night by Stephen Colbert. He pointed out that if Obama is supported by Ted Kennedy, who is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is led by a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth, that can mean only one thing: OBAMA LOVES HITLER!

….for the rest of the story click here!

Obama gets the ‘dirt off his shoulders’

21 Apr

Obamawatch 2008! continues

 

Yes, for all of those uppity Negroes out there, Barack Obama did in fact ‘brush his shoulders off’ in an attempt to get rid of the ‘dirt’ called Hillary Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, and Charlie Gibson.  This clip doesn’t show it, but I couldn’t help but let out an audible laugh when I first saw the clip that hearkens of the Jay-Z song “Dirt Off Ya Shoulders” when I saw the black people sitting behind him IMMEDIATELY recall the song and he got a rousing ovation.  Naturally the white people clapped because it’s an international sign of getting up, dusting oneself off and not worried about events.

But, for what it’s worth, that was a code sign for blacks in this country that he’s one of us.  ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!!  But anywayzzz, it was nice to see him loosen up and have some true genuine fun for a moment.

Keep it uppity, and keep it radical, JLL

What Is ‘Speaking Truth to Power?’: Social Justice Gains Popularity

19 Apr

I grew up hearing the phrase “speak truth to power” and its derivatives namely from the pulpit and from my mother.  It was always used as a justification for preaching social justice sermons or putting forth a social justice message; usually in the face of a prosperity gospel preached (such as in the Word of Faith churches). 

Now let me be crystal clear, I fall clearly in step with those who preach a social justice message.  But my friend asked me to define what a social justice message was and I very quickly rattled off the first thing that comes to mind and it was “speaking truth to power.”  Being blessed to have such an inquisitive friend, he simply asked “What does that mean?” –and I was speechless.

Has the part of the Black Church that has consistently preached and taught the messages of social justice gotten no better than those that preach a prosperity gospel?  Have we not monikered our own catch phrase of “speaking truth to power” that has surely gained popularity in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy? 

Many people use the Hebrew Bible examples of the prophets such as Jeremiah, Isaiah and particularly in the Jeremiah Wright issue, the prophet Elijah as he butted heads with the government in the form of Jezebel (who was not a whore as the writer of Revelation so eloquently opined) in 1 Kings chapter 21.  Or use the proclamations that are found in Jeremiah or Isaiah as a foundation for a social justice platform.  Well, I guess there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but again, as Christians we live in a post-resurrection era, how does one reconcile an Old Testament hermeneutic in a New Testament world?

The other problem that my friend spurred my mind into pondering is really about this phrase “speaking truth to power” and of course the natural question is what is truth?  Clearly it’s quite objective because those who subscrbie to a prosperity gospel believe that those who preach a social justice marriage have their priorities mixed up, and vice-versa.  Another question that I ask is as to whether or not truth needs to be brought to power?   And if I can totally be devil’s advocate, is speaking the best way of achieving it?

I’m quite sure that there is a division that still exists amongst black churches with some that will use Jeremiah Wright as an example as reasons why one should not speak so loudly, or so vehemently or else you’ll end up with people remembering you for the wrong reasons.  Others who tip-toe around the fray of things lest they get their hands dirty know that a social justice message should be preached form their pulpit, yet and still they know that it doesn’t necessarily pay the bills or their salary.  Or others that clearly feel that social justice is not priority number one for black people in this country.

So, where do we go from here because I would go out on a limb and say that many who have preached a social justice message now feel even more emboldened to go forth “speaking truth to power.”  Even here on campus, Jeremiah Wright’s name has been brought up so many times, I’m quite tired of hearing it.  There’s even a panel (albeit EXTREMELY late in the whole issue) on ITC’s campus on Monday at 6pm and I’m seriously considering skipping it just because I’m quite tired of the whole situation.  In my preaching classes, I heard sermons that have included Jeremiah Wright’s name and even two sermons clearly about social justice one entitled “Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Wright”  (which was horrible, and he should have just kept it on his manuscript.  I mean he started hooping by his second paragraph in B-natural–B-NATURAL!!!!) and the other one was simply entitled “Speaking Truth To Power” both using Hebrew Bible scriptural references.

Even though I’m clearly rambling, my whole point in a nutshell is to admonish those of us who believe in a social justice message to stop running around saying “speaking truth to power” as though you’ve said a mouthful and most of us would be hard pressed to really define the phrase “speaking truth to power” other than throwing it off on social justice preaching.  Somehow, I can just see it becoming yet another fad in the wider scheme of things and I’m afraid for the black community if we make a “fad” out of the tradition that Jeremiah Wright et. al. stood and still stand in and we really negate the ultimate tradition of it all.

I needn’t shine the spotlight on the countless black preachers, namely from the modern civil rights era to present in order to make my point.  But please don’t diminish the power of social justice preaching by wantonly throwing around catchphrases like “speaking truth to power” as though you have a key card to the true nature of God, Jesus or the Holy Ghost over that of others who run around saying “Watch This!” or “Money Cometh Unto Me.”

From now on, let’s just keep in mind what we really mean when we say “speaking truth to power.”

Keep it uppity, and keep it radical, JLL

 

Don’t Make Your Tomb Your Tabernacle

16 Apr

Just wanted to share with you all what one my school’s about to be alumni Kippie Brown preached tonight for our school’s last Ecumenical Late-Night service.  Coming from Mark 5 and the Gerasene demoniac named Legion. 

In a nutshell, he simply said that it’s hard sometimes to not make the tomb our tabernacle because it is there often times that we are forced to deal with ourselves.  After being away from home and being around the familiar, the tomb provides the only solitary place for one to allow one’s mind to feed only upon itself.  He of course, in wonderful Baptist tradition closed with a resurrection story, but it was after he allowed himself to be transparent as far as he was related to the text, that he provided the tear jerker.

He said (I’m paraphrasing), “Remember that Jesus had just come through a storm to get to the other side in Gerasene.  Remember that Jesus will come through a storm, just to save you.”

And that’s all I want to leave you readers with:  That no matter what, after what doctors may say, after all the conventional approaches that you’ve tried, sometimes, just sometimes, divine intervention will take places.  It is in these moments that Jesus will come through a storm just to save you!

Keep it uppity, keep it radical, JLL

I Have No Words….Detroit City Council by way of Kwame Kilpatrick

16 Apr

I mean wow!  I’m ashamed to be black after watching my sistah girl act like she did. 

Literally ashamed.

And then she committed the cardinal sin, she thoroughly emasculated a black man who finally got some powere who appears to be the elected chairman of the city council board, in front of God and everyone.  She made the personal comment about him getting his own house together and I was like whooooa–is she aware of what she’s saying?

 I mean I’m not sure if this was a direct result of Kwame Kilpatrick getting indicted, but I’m sure this had a lot to do with it.  But after watchin Council Wars in the 1980′s in Chicago, and watching the New Orleans Public School board meeting meltdowns, I’m more inclined to say that this was business as usual in city politics where black people often are the majority.

I don’t know what lead up to this, but whatever it is, they NEED to get it together!   I refuse to go around claiming my uppity Negro status when others of us start acting like ____________.  

You fill in the blank.

Keep it uppity, and keep it radical, JLL

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