I don’t have my computer. A friggin’ APPLE MacBook is in the friggin’ shop–and I don’t have one. I’m blogging on my friend’s computer, typing a sermon on a typewriter at home because otherwise it would be a handwritten mess on Sunday morning. So, I’m not going to stress out over it, but I’m going [...]
Archive for July, 2009
The New Peculiar Institution
Posted: July 11, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, The Color LineI’m not going to be able to watch this year’s “Black In America, Pt. 2” with America’s favorite Soledad O’Brien. I did have the opportunity to watch it last year and like most in the black blogosphere ripped it to shreds. Most of us leveled the same charge that the two day special highlighted the [...]
Things This Uppity Negro Likes: American Cities Pt. 1: Washington, D.C.
Posted: July 10, 2009 by the uppity negro in About The Uppity Negro, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroAnyone who’s known me since about, oh, 2005 knows where my ultimate goal in life is: Washington, D.C. I know sometimes you’re supposed to keep some things “close to your heart” a lesson many of us hear preached and taught to us via Joseph the dreamer from the Hebrew Bible book of Genesis. We all [...]
This has been an age old question I’ve always wanted to know concerning women and their relationships with married men: why do mistresses always think that they are the number lady in the lives of the men they deal with? Seriously, what situation does anyone know of where the man treats the mistress like a [...]
The Danger of Diversity
Posted: July 5, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, The Color LineThe Riverside Church of Manhattan on the Upper West Side comes to mind when one thinks of bastions of ecclesial liberalism. And generally one calls to mind famous pastors of Henry Emerson Fosdick, William Sloane Coffin and the latest James Forbes. Sadly, I’m sure in the history of this great institutional church, Dr. Brad Braxton [...]
Again, on this Independence Day…
Posted: July 4, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color LineIn the spirit of laziness and the fact that I couldn’t think of anything else that I could really say different than what I did last summer, I’m running the post I dropped on Independence Day that I did last year. Maybe this time people’ll comment on it. JLL …as we celebrate yet another year [...]
Breaking News: Sarah Palin Resigns as Alaska Governor
Posted: July 3, 2009 by the uppity negro in PoliticsSo, it just dropped on the news wire, so to speak (clearly we have internet now with telephones and emails and Blackberrys) but that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate with Sen. John McCain, will resign as of July 26th from her office as Alaska Governor. This is the CNN story from AP: [...]
Members of the Black Church Should Demand A Return on Investment
Posted: July 3, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Politics, Theology of PreachingI remember in my Finance 101 class the professor giving us the formulas for how to figure out return on investment of the principal or capital deposit. The answer usually produced what was also known as the rate of return, either in fraction or percentage form. It’s basic math, the final value of the investment [...]
Speaking Truths That Empower
Posted: July 1, 2009 by the uppity negro in Church and Society, Politics, Religion, Theology of PreachingMost liberals are familiar with the phrase “[speak] truth to power” which I always loosely associated with social justice messages, particularly those from the pulpit. But, when pressed on the issue, I wasn’t able to give a cogent definition of what the “truth” was and let alone what the “power” was. So when I heard [...]
