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Sponsoring a Dream

June 30, 2008by the uppity negro 2 Comments

We all have seen those commercials with children looking lost, with flies lighting on them, distended stomachs from severe starvation; playing or standing on piles of rubbish and garbage and […]

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Church and Society, Politics, The Color Line
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Guess Who’s Bizzak

June 30, 2008by the uppity negro Leave a comment

Whew…. (and again I say…) Whew! I just came back from camping with the youth group to Creation Fest 2008!  A four day, three night camping experience on the Agape […]

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Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro

What’s REALLY good?

June 24, 2008by the uppity negro 3 Comments

Well, I’m definitely going to be gone for a few days this week, and the week of July 6th, but I will share about the place my work is leaving […]

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In honor of Black Music Month: Soulja Boy Tell’em’s Beef with Ice-T

June 21, 2008by the uppity negro Leave a comment

I guess I’ll continue this vein of music with the following clip.  For those of you at work, bust out the headphones, the language on here is rough: Bats turned […]

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Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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So Hip Hop is from the prison culture? I missed the memo

June 21, 2008by the uppity negro 2 Comments

The only thing worse than white innocence is white ignorance. A quick Google search didn’t show that the aforementioned quote is a particularly famous one, so I’m personally attributing it […]

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Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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Obama’s Image Problem

June 21, 2008by the uppity negro 7 Comments

 Ever since I personally felt dissed by Obama and his disavowal of Jeremiah Wright in late April and more importantly for me, allowing for outright mistruths concerning the Black Church […]

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Does This Happen At Your Church?

June 16, 2008by the uppity negro Leave a comment

Hmmmm…. I may start to periodically find some Youtube church clips that I’ve found particularly funny or particularly interesting.  For those of you who don’t know already, I’m pretty into […]

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To my only Dad

June 16, 2008by the uppity negro 1 Comment

On Saturday, June 14th, the day before Father’s Day 2008 I received word from Papa Uppity himself that he had what the doctors had termed a heart attack. Whoa. Yeah, […]

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Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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A ‘Premature Autopsy’

June 14, 2008by the uppity negro 4 Comments

Today, I had a little change in my pocket so I finally drove up and down the main drag here in Gaithersburg looking for a barber.  I saw something that […]

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Church and Society, Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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A Sorrowful Day

June 14, 2008by the uppity negro 2 Comments

Honestly, I don’t know what to be more torn up about– The death of the great NBC legend from Meet the Press, Tim Russert or the fact that somehow R. […]

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