This is a quick study break for me, but I feel compelled to write it. I saw via Twitter that in the midst of fellow black blogger Danielle Belton, bka The Black Snob‘s eastern seaboard tour that she was going to be in Washington, D.C. urreah (dat’s where it’s at!), but more so that she was [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Study Break Shout Out: The Uppity Negro Pays Homage to “The Black Snob”
Posted: April 29, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture7
I guess I’m like Jonathan L. Walton, who mentions on his blog that every once in a while he stumbles upon “great moments in Gospel [music] history” that act as much needed breaks from research. I was emailed the following clip on Facebook, but I opened it in the midst of a research break at [...]
The Changing Image of the New Black Male: College Hill, South Beach
Posted: April 24, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color LineYes, I’m going there. I’m going all the way there. One of the joys of this blog is being the cultural critic and having the platform and the ability to provide my opinion on any and everything. And I must say that after watching this last week’s episode of BET’s College Hill: South Beach that [...]
A Definite Crisis In The Village
Posted: April 23, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, The Color LineOf course I’m stealing that title from Robert M. Franklin’s book Crisis In the Village. But, he’s quite right: there is a crisis in the village when two young boys commit suicide due to children taunting them. Down here in Georgia another young boy by the name of Jaheem Herrera was found hanging in his [...]
I Have Something To Say: an Uppity View on Miss USA and Perez Hilton
Posted: April 22, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, ReligionOne of the random misconceptions that most liberals won’t let you get away with is the idea of “freedom.” Sadly, it has been in the history of Africans living here in the diaspora of North America learning that freedom, is in fact not free. It always costs something. Stephen King at the end of his [...]
This was from the final Late Night Service from Morehouse School of Religion here at my school. Yup, that’s me again on the organ. And what ensues is what’s known as a “praise break” before we go right into the song that we were supposed to have been singing. My computer shuts off, but about [...]
Obama Discovers Some Intestinal Fortitude; Leaves door open for Prosecution for Torture under the Bush administration
Posted: April 21, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics…or maybe his cohones decided to drop ever since they had shrunk from when Jesse Jackson had threatened to castrate President Barack Obama. Or maybe he just passed the buck–as usual. At least in the public eye, so far, the most decisive decision (I know that’s redundant) that Obama has done since being in office has [...]
I lied. I had promised myself I was done with the TeaBagging and what not and the foolishness that it was. But alas, I lied. Fellow blogging dude over at AverageBro gave me an idea for a post. I’m not sure if he realised he put his foot on the gas, but he brought [...]
Maybe It’s Worse Than I Thought…Slavery Revisted?
Posted: April 18, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color LineGovernor Rick “Good Hair” Perry of Texas made the news. It was all over the networks. Big whoop. We all knew that it was a publicity stunt as one of the commenters noted as well. Another commenter forwarded this story to me, one that kind of slipped under the radar. Here check it out: It [...]
To Those Who Left The Revolution….
Posted: April 17, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, The Color LineI never really knew I felt about the whole Cuban-U.S. relations until recently. As a kid growing up, I heard about the tenets of Communism and frankly it all sounded GRRREAT to me. Especially in light of the Christian teachings I heard growing up about how Christ was for ALL people, and this semi-universalist slant [...]
