My sincere apologies. It must be the start of school if I’m not blogging consistently. The 100,000 post really doesn’t count as a serious blog, but school has started and I have a full load: Music in the Black Church (in lieu of Intro to Greek 2 taught by an incompetent professor resulting in me [...]
Archive for January, 2009
While I Was In School…
Posted: January 31, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line5
100,000 Visitors!
Posted: January 26, 2009 by the uppity negro in Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroYeah y’all, I’m at 99,761 visitors to the Uppity Negro Network site as of me dropping this particular posts. Thanks for the love over the last 15 months guys. Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
It Almost Didn’t Happen, But Thank God It Did: an Uppity Negro Inauguration Story Part One
Posted: January 24, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color LineHow does one really write about the inauguration and really capture the moment? Seriously, what does even a reporter begin to sit down at their laptop and submit the leading story on CNN.com or the Washington Post about the inauguration and really capture the moment, not some file story where they “insert date” and “insert [...]
Slightly prior to the inauguration, over winter break, I was asked to do a book review on a graphic book entitled Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans. Since I’ve been in the District since Sunday, I haven’t received the book for review let alone read it. But here in this post is [...]
The 2009 Presidential Inauguration of the First Uppity Negro, Barack Hussein Obama
Posted: January 21, 2009 by the uppity negro in PoliticsAlright readers. For anyone who knows me, I’m back in the District and it’s like my second home to me, especially after doing the internship this year. Thanks to the host fam for letting me stay here, rent free again, and taking me downtown and everything. That being said, I’m doing my best to be [...]
Rick Warren and the mess that was the Keynote Address at Ebenezer Baptist Church
Posted: January 19, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Politics, Theology of PreachingUpdates to come… But let the record show that Rick Warren did a complete and total and utter disservice to the legacy that was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. He should have let it slide with the inaugural invocation tomorrow morning, but this fool got up in front of a black congregation and quoted [...]
An Uppity Update — UNN Heads to Washington, D.C.
Posted: January 18, 2009 by the uppity negro in UncategorizedUm, yeah y’all I’m headed to Washington, D.C. round about 2p.m. after church. And I’m waking up this morning, I turned on CNN (seems to be the poison of choice for everyone I’ve talked to) and I hear T.J. “Playboy” Holmes interviewing Vibe editor-in-chief Danyel Smith and I’m hearing Playboy getting crunk about Lil’ Jon who [...]
I Have No Words…For the King Committee Picking Rick Warren for MLK Day Speaker
Posted: January 17, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, I Have No Words, The Color LineI mentioned it earlier this month in a blog, but I didn’t devote a whole blog to it, but, um, yeah, I really don’t have words to describe my ultimate disgust with the King Center’s choice to pick Rick Warren as the MLK day speaker. Perhaps I’ll buy the claim that theologically Rick Warren [...]
Eric Holder’s Uphill Battle
Posted: January 15, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color LineThe bellwether for the dismal position that the U.S. Department of Justice had found themselves in presented itself in the attempted suicide of Mychal Bell at the end of last year. If that name rings a bell, it should because his name was pre-eminent in the Jena 6. Mychal Bell says he felt pressure to [...]
UNN Live Blogging of American Idol–Pt. 2 (First Hour Only)
Posted: January 14, 2009 by the uppity negro in Fried Chicken and Watermelon, I Ain't Hatin', I Have No Words1. Ms. Marquadt. A cat jumping off the Empire State Building. It’s official, I’m not a friend of Kara right about now. She has totally thrown it off. But, she sounded a hawwwwt mess. A cat sitting under a rocking chair. Hmm…she got a booty. What, why did her family and friends act like she [...]
