It’s been 10 years since the inception of Tavis Smiley’s brain child, the State of the Black Union which has covered a range of issues over the past years from the economy, to the Black Church, the Black Family, Reclaiming Democracy and now this year “Making America as Good as its Promise.“ Granted that’s [...]
Archive for February, 2009
UNN Watches The 10 Annual State of the Black Union: Making America as Good as its Promise
Posted: February 28, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line0
Good Bye to February
Posted: February 27, 2009 by the uppity negro in Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroThis was an interesting month for me. It was neatly situated into four compact weeks that were easily to know dates if you remembered your multiples of seven. There wasn’t a leap year. This year wasn’t marked by the campaign seasons, beginning back in February 2007 with Obama announcing his candidacy two years ago. [...]
UNN Movie Review: Changeling
Posted: February 22, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Movie Reviews, Pop CultureOkay, one down–one more to go. I was on the Academy Award’s list of nominees and I saw another movie I had seen last summer was up for nomination and I was like “Aw nuts! I have to do a third review” and then I realised I just don’t feel like it. But all [...]
UNN Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Posted: February 22, 2009 by the uppity negro in Movie Reviews, Politics, Pop Culture, The Color LineOkay, the Academy Awards are in two hours and some odd change, let’s see if I can knock out these movie reviews quick fast and in a hurry. Up on the docket first is “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Honest opinion, this past fall, especially this winter fell short on decent movies I wanted [...]
Catch Me If You Can, the black version
Posted: February 22, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroThe movie “Catch Me If You Can” was a 2003 Dreamworks release from Steven Spielberg and the whole crew of them. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio as the real life Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. who, based on the movie, had some serious childhood issues with his father namely and before he was 19, yes you read [...]
Response to “When Does Gay Tolerance Go Too Far?”
Posted: February 20, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroFirst of all, if this is the best writing sample that has been produced by The Maroon Tiger, then I feel as though I’ve missed my calling as a journalist because I think I write better than that. The article in question can be found by clicking on this link and refers to the UNN [...]
When Judas Is Closer Than Jesus
Posted: February 19, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroOkay, I stole that from this girl that goes to school here with me; it had been her Facebook status message momentarily, but when I read this article here, I realised that the metaphorical Judas’ really do exist. Here’s a short snippet from the AP/Yahoo News Service A group of black ministers who supported U.S. [...]
Obama Administration’s Silver Lining; Atty. Gen. Eric Holder calls America “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race
Posted: February 19, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color Line, Uppity AwardsWell, AMEN! Per the title of this post, that been an angle I’ve been pushing subtilely on this blog for some time now. Of course the usuals, like Elizabeth Hasselbeck just now on The View get it wrong. What’s at the center of the controversy is the following quote made by Attorney General Eric Holder during a [...]
When Does Gay Tolerance Go Too Far?
Posted: February 18, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop CultureI stumbled upon this article that was published in the The Maroon Tiger, Morehouse College’s campus newspaper. The following is the article as published in that newspaper in it’s entirety. I’ll be publishing a response to the article within the coming days, but for now, please discuss the following article amongst yourselves. It’s no [...]
Creating Community
Posted: February 15, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, Theology of PreachingLast year, around finals, I was in the barbershop for about two hours. Partially because my barber always runs about 15-30 minutes behind schedule (not a big deal, I’m used to it) and my friend was in the chair behind me. So they all know that we go to “that preacher school” up the street, [...]
