This is one of those times where I simply have no words. Bob Johnson has long time fallen from grace in the black community. I’m quite sure that the majority of blacks who voted for Barack “Barry” Obama in the primaries have little if any respect for Bob Johnson. For those who have no idea […]
Read more "I Have No Words…. Bob Johnson"I think the title speaks for itself. I’m a budding homiletician and part time African American historian with a clear emphasis on the Black Church. I need some books, just to be able to put my hand on them when I need to, and also, to get up on some summer reading in my particular […]
Read more "Books I’d like to buy, but have no money"I’ve been told that I’ve been quite verbose in my last few posts, so hopefully this will be a short one, but I can’t make any promises. As I sit here watching “Obama’s ‘Bitter’ Battle” on CNN News around 6pm Eastern time, I hear some white people saying that the Clinton’s are hedging around this […]
Read more "Obama joins the ranks of uppity Negroes?"Thankfully, I went to a church that NEVER begged for money. I never heard sermons out of Malachi about tithing, and I used to cringe when I’d end up visiting a church that the pastor felt the need to preach on it. It always made me uncomfortable–gave me the willies. But be that as it […]
Read more "My Sunday Morning Revelation, Pt. II: Why I May Stop Tithing"My friend quipped to me that I could have made it as an African American history major because he just noticed how quickly I was able to rattle off dates, and times and all what others may consider minutae, but what I consider quite essential to understanding some of our present day issues here in […]
Read more "Beware of The Originalists"I realized in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright-Barack Obama bruhaha that there are simply somethings black people in America can’t say. One of my professors put it this way: Many of us who identify as Black or African American (I REALLY need to do a blog about that foolishness) are the descendants of slaves, and […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 