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 outright sewage. Most of us turn away, including yours truly, because it’s really hard and painful to watch as most of us sit in the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Sponsoring a Dream
Posted: June 30, 2008 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Politics, The Color Line2
Guess Who’s Bizzak
Posted: June 30, 2008 by the uppity negro in Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroWhew…. (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 Farms near Mt. Union, Pennsylvania. Suffice it to say, that was not necessarily my cup of tea. However, I must say that I’ve grown from [...]
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 for tomorrow. It’s this place called Creation. Out in the middle of nowhere. On a farm. Yeah….this should be fun. I looked at the schedule [...]
In honor of Black Music Month: Soulja Boy Tell’em’s Beef with Ice-T
Posted: June 21, 2008 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroI 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 me on this one, (and yes for all things hip hop, which I am definitely not check out HipHopDX or his blog on my blogroll) [...]
So Hip Hop is from the prison culture? I missed the memo
Posted: June 21, 2008 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color LineThe 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 to my friend over at Soul Jonz. That quote was the result of title statement that my host mother told me. We were all sitting [...]
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 and that which is the black preacher and many other nuances of black culture to be passed on to unsuspecting liberal and conservative whites alike [...]
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 church and into the musical and preaching aspects specifically of the Black Church. It’s a rich history and runs the full gamut of that which [...]
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, that was a blow. I’m an only child and as I’ve gotten older and started to deal with my friends’ parents mortality, but even more [...]
A ‘Premature Autopsy’
Posted: June 14, 2008 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color LineToday, 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 had “platinum” and “barber” in the same name and I figured that it was a black one. So, I got my haircut, experienced my first [...]
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. Kelly was accquited. Truth be told, I’mmore torn up about two other things, one of which was the fact that I saw Facebook status messages [...]
