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Study Break Shout Out: The Uppity Negro Pays Homage to “The Black Snob”

April 29, 2009by the uppity negro 7 Comments

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 […]

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Pop Culture

Study Break

April 27, 2009by the uppity negro 1 Comment

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 […]

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Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
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The Changing Image of the New Black Male: College Hill, South Beach

April 24, 2009by the uppity negro 11 Comments

  Yes, 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 […]

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Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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A Definite Crisis In The Village

April 23, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

Of 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 […]

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Pop Culture, The Color Line
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I Have Something To Say: an Uppity View on Miss USA and Perez Hilton

April 22, 2009by the uppity negro 11 Comments

One 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 […]

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Politics, Pop Culture, Religion

I’m On YouTube Again

April 22, 2009by the uppity negro Leave a comment

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 […]

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Church and Society
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Obama Discovers Some Intestinal Fortitude; Leaves door open for Prosecution for Torture under the Bush administration

April 21, 2009by the uppity negro 2 Comments

…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. […]

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Politics
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Missed Opportunity

April 20, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

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 […]

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Politics
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Maybe It’s Worse Than I Thought…Slavery Revisted?

April 18, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

Governor 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 […]

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Politics, The Color Line
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To Those Who Left The Revolution….

April 17, 2009by the uppity negro 3 Comments

I 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 […]

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Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line

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