Well, to put minds at ease, I found housing here on campus in Atlanta, but I don’t have an internet signal in my room–and for a blogger that’s a death knell. So, I’ve been camped out in an empty classroom since 10Am this morning doing my epic blogs that I promised to have by today. [...]
Archive for August, 2008
August 29th
Posted: August 29, 2008 by the uppity negro in Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color LineMaybe the cosmic forces don’t like the end August. Or maybe it’s just August in general as far as I’m concerned personally that major events happen. This is also the beginning of the school year for many students, a time a shifting and transitioning. It is nearing the time that many farmers are doing final [...]
August 28th
Posted: August 29, 2008 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line“They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set to high. They said this country was too divided….but at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn’t do…” Personally, Democratic Nominee Senator Barack Obama’s victory speech on January 3rd following the Iowa caucuses was my favorite. It [...]
Yerp, it’s that time again. There’s another shift about to come in my life. I guess I’m headed back to school in Atlanta. I won’t take this time to vent all of my frustrations, but trust me they’re running quite high. Just to give you a picture, I don’t have housing. Yeah. When I pull [...]
Don’t Wait Till the Battle Is Over, Shout Now!
Posted: August 25, 2008 by the uppity negro in UncategorizedI have an admission to make. I’m really bowled over with Usain Bolt. I don’t know if it’s because it hearkens back to my dismal track days in high school, or is it really just the black on black affinity that definitely never meshed with Michael Phelps or even with Cullen Jones. Whatever the case [...]
I got my text at 3:40am CDT and I was fast asleep. I rolled over around 5am and saw my little light had went to flashing orange so I checked it. Frankly, I thought Obama was going to do a switcheroo and pick someone we hadn’t even remotely thought of. But meh, I was wrong. [...]
Put Your Hat Back On!
Posted: August 22, 2008 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, ReligionI’ll admit that I’ve kind of been baffled by gender roles. Like, I never understood why I couldn’t hit girls, especially if she hit me first. I never understood why a man was supposed to walk on the street side with a woman–especially when it seemed Mama Uppity frustratingly was the only woman who seemed [...]
The Office of the Glorified Secretary…I mean Office Assistant
Posted: August 21, 2008 by the uppity negro in PoliticsI will openly admit that current VP Dick Cheney took the office of vice-presidency to the next level. Between him and Karl Rove, I believe we saw the power of the vice-presidency go to the next level. Of course initially this office was remarked by John Nance Garner, VP under FDR 1933-41 that the vice [...]
In Memoriam: U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones
Posted: August 21, 2008 by the uppity negro in UncategorizedI really don’t have much to say on behalf of Miss Jones, but I feel moved to do another post on her in the face of the absolutely shameful way that this tragedy was handled by MSM, by reporting that she was dead before the early afternoon press conference on yesterday. As you see there [...]
I did a post on August 15 about three days after I got back to Chicago when I found out that South Side State Senator James Meeks was planning a boycott and taking a bus load of kids to enroll them in a suburban school district. The point of the boycott was to bring attention to [...]
