If you want to view this an apology, by all means do so, but even I’ll admit it’s going to be a half-hearted one. I talked over the whole Michael Jackson death with my friend on Sunday afternoon and I was telling him how I felt and what I had written on my blog. We [...]
Archive for June, 2009
An Almost Apology….from the Uppity Negro
Posted: June 29, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro3
Is One Death Greater Than The Other?
Posted: June 28, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroSo, we just got word that television personality Billy Mays was found dead at his home in Tampa, Florida. And of course the blogs and the text messages, and Facebook and Twitter status messages and updates are decrying the deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and are now adding Billy Mays to the [...]
Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?
Posted: June 27, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color LineI guess with the Today Show doing a piece on Chicago’s Olympic bid for the 2016 Summer Games earlier this week, it solidified that the rest of the country was aware of the city’s bid. And I guess it was the beginning of the country’s rallying cry to the International Olympic Committee for the Games [...]
Clearly I used that post title for shock value. I’m actually writing this on the day of the death of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, but I refuse to post as soon as I’m done with this simply because I think there are more pressing issues to deal with in life. I received a [...]
I Have No Words: Hurricane Chris Performs for Louisiana State Legislature
Posted: June 25, 2009 by the uppity negro in Fried Chicken and Watermelon, I Ain't Hatin'Now I lived in New Orleans for a hot second amounting to three years of my life, and it was just kind of common fun to poke fun at the kids from Shreveport, or as they said Port City. It was a fair number of people from Shreveport that I went to school with down [...]
I Have No Words: Hurricane Chris Performs for the Louisiana State Legislature
Posted: June 25, 2009 by the uppity negro in Fried Chicken and Watermelon, I Ain't Hatin'Now I lived in New Orleans for a hot second amounting to three years of my life, and it was just kind of common fun to poke fun at the kids from Shreveport, or as they said Port City. It was a fair number of people from Shreveport that I went to school with down [...]
Beware The Spirit Killers: Bridging the Gap Between The Elders and the Joshua Generation
Posted: June 23, 2009 by the uppity negro in Pop Culture, Religion, The Color LineGiven my current line of work, I interact often with youth. Last week was definitely the case seeing as how I worked in the morning with a bunch of nine and ten year olds and in the evening I worked heavily with a middle school/junior high school bunch of school aged children. Thank God I [...]
So We Finally Got An Apology for Slavery–and then they took it back
Posted: June 22, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color LineI haven’t time right now to write a whole post about it and since I got an email about this Essence article from a fellow reader, I’ve decided to post the Essence magazine article entitled “Is Sorry Enough? Black Lawmakers Respond to Senate’s Apology for Slavery” written by Cynthia Gordy and let you all discuss it [...]
Further Uppity Updates: Hell Week
Posted: June 18, 2009 by the uppity negro in Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroOkay, so this week has been my hell week on my internship. There’s a 9am-2pm session with a bunch of nine and ten year olds, and then we reconvene for the evening session from 5:30-8:30pm with a whole group of kids, pre-K through 12th grade here where I’m interning. It’s just a week long session, [...]
So just a poll how many of you all would follow me on Facebook? Tryna see if I want to make a full new Facebook account or just keep it as is. Also, another housekeeping note: I’m not super great with the emails people have been sending me as far as adspace is concerned, but [...]
