Philly Debrief III: Culturally Aware Vs. Culturally Sensitivity

On May 29th, I believe I wrote one of my first blogs while in cultural exile immersion out here in Murrah-land. I entitled it The Dominant Subordinate Culture and I, in many words, explained that blacks in this country are really the dominant culture. Whatever is on top encompasses what is beneath it as far […]

Gay man sues publishers over Bible verses

Well, isn’t this interesting. Got wind of this story through emails from friends. One of the responses from the people in the email circle is “Don’t let your flesh justify what your spirit already knows is wrong.” Well….I guess, I’ll leave that one alone. Just read the USA Today story. A gay man is suing two heavyweight […]

‘The Game’ Goes to Another Level

I’m not a big follower of Hip-Hop. Never have been. Same with sports, it’s something that I’m definitely a spectator to; I vicariously pick up information about these particular facets of life. Even though I read Vibe magazine every month, and flip to ESPN once in a blue moon. I’ll watch playoff games, or I’ll […]

A Midnight (well, 11:04pm) Post on Obama’s NAACP Speech

I actually don’t have a lot to say other than point out the fact that this speech in Cincinatti at some NAACP convention it was one Obama’s more average and mediocre, generic speeches. I think the first half about governmental policies and the socio-economic structures that need changing was wonderful, and I personally think his […]

Black community denied water for decades, jury says

Is this racist or not? I have cousins that live in rural areas and I remember for the longest that they didn’t have city water, but had dug their own wells. Here’s the July 11th story CNN story below: Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal […]

So Muslim is the New Black? Again I missed the memo

Must have a lot on my mind, three posts in one night. I guess I’ve been missing these memo’s lately, like the one my host mother informed me about–you know the one where “hip hop come out of the prison culture” or that the neighborhood around Howard University is a bad neighborhood. So, per the […]

Philly Debrief Pt. II: Confronting Anti-Intelligence

Yes, there is a theme that has been consistent in what I write, more so in my comments on other people’s blogs. Most times I offer anti-intelligence as the reasoning behind people and their actions. To drive the point home, it’s really their reactions. Those who try their best to engage in critical debate and […]

Unapologetic and Unashamed; TvOne’s Decision to solely air the DNC

I know AverageBro did a story about this and I figured I didn’t need to do a story about it, but today I saw today on CNN Headline News that some guy from Variety, who’s name I seem to be unable to recover from memory or from Google toss out this idea that TvOne’s decision […]

Check Out The New Adds

I’ve recently added new blogs to my blogroll and I just want to draw your attention to them. They are Aunt Jemima’s Revenge, Jack and Jill Politics and Black Women, Blow The Trumpet. This is not to diminish the other’s on my blogroll, but I’ve added these three kind of back-to-back, and just wanted to […]

Philly Debrief: Why I’m a Black African American

This is actually a topic I’ve been dying to write, but I figured that it would take some time and that I had a lot to write about it, so bear with me as I gather my thoughts about this particular subject. It was Summer 2006 and I was finishing up at Fisk University my […]

Joshua Lawrence Lazard

The blog of the one formerly known as The Uppity Negro

Month: July 2008