Some say the best is yet to come while some say the best is right now living the present. Whatever the case may be, I’m a bit swamped right now and it’s not midterms yet. Most already know how anxious I’ve been going into this year and most of the anxieties haven’t subsided a whole [...]
Archive for September, 2009
It’s Not The People, It’s The System
Posted: September 19, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color LineAnyone who knows something about me knows that I don’t do video games. I’ve never owned a system–Playstation, no Game Cube, no Xbox and not even the old school Nintendo 64, SegaGenesis or anything like that. Now, don’t get it twisted, I will get on Mario Kart and whoop ass though, lol. But, the computer [...]
Some Things That Might Have Slipped Under The Radar…
Posted: September 16, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop CultureThese are two things that may have slipped under the collective radar. I even missed this first clip on some of my usual blogs. But granted I was out during the summer when my laptop decided to go on the fritz. So here it is and yes, he went there with it. After watching that [...]
The Recession’s Racial Divide, Pt. II
Posted: September 16, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color LineSo, school has started back and I’m trying to learn biblical Hebrew as a language that’s long be defunct. It’s so outdated that this type of Hebrew consists of an alphabet with no vowels. So the Masoretes came in between A.D. 500 and 1000 and created a “pointed text” in other words creating vowels, for [...]
Maybe I’ve been wrong about this whole President Barack Obama and his apparently passive aggressive response to the conservative rhetoric. We’ve been long discussing how Obama seems to be unaware of his critics, and in fact how the administration seems to actually concede to criticism (consider how the White House issued a quick change of [...]
The Recession’s Racial Divide
Posted: September 15, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, The Color LineSo, school has started back and I’m trying to learn biblical Hebrew as a language that’s long be defunct. It’s so outdated that this type of Hebrew consists of an alphabet with no vowels. So the Masoretes came in between A.D. 500 and 1000 and created a “pointed text” in other words creating vowels, for [...]
This Week In Review….UNN News Briefs
Posted: September 14, 2009 by the uppity negro in Politics, Pop Culture, The Color LineThe last seven days has been one of a news reporters–or bloggers–dream. From President Barack Obama’s speech to the school kids of America on their first day, to his health care speech with South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, to Kanye West acting a fool last night and Serena Williams meltdown. First, it wasn’t until last [...]
Oh, P.S., On A Final Note…Since I have the floor…
Posted: September 9, 2009 by the uppity negro in About The Uppity Negro, Fried Chicken and Watermelon, I Have No Words, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroI’ve been rather conscious in the past about not putting people on blast from my blog. It’s rather easy given that many of my topics are about religion and it’s rather easy to call out church names and pastor names. Aside from big timers like a T.D. Jakes or a Creflo Dollar or a Bishop [...]
From The Uppity Negro Network, Living In Liminality, The Typewriter Series Presents: “The Simpler Things In Life”
Posted: September 8, 2009 by the uppity negro in About The Uppity Negro, Random Thoughts from an Uppity NegroI’m doing a series, just about three or four, might be five, can’t remember, blog posts that I had actually typewritten on a Royal Typewriter Futura. These are my thoughts during that fateful period this past summer while I was on my internship and was without my laptop for about three FULL weeks. I had [...]
This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. That’s the famous last stanza from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Man” more or less concerning the sign of the times following World War I in [...]
