Archive for January, 2010

A Lot Going On…

Posted: January 27, 2010 by the uppity negro in About The Uppity Negro

So I’ve fallen on hardtimes for the last couple of weeks. First, my laptop had went out and I STILL have not gotten it back–fixed at least.  Then I was just slowly becoming broke.  I had $50 to last me two weeks–minimum.  As of this morning, I have $1 in my pocket.  I mean, push [...]

Last week my friend asked me to lead the discussion for the “Next Gathering” a group of budding theologians who meet for a couple of hours once a month to discuss theology in a slightly more formal setting than just over hot wings and drinks.  My colleague asked me to give the preacher’s response to [...]

Editors note: This is a dense post.  Grab a doughnut or some tea and buckle in for the ride. In the past week, the country has been treated to backroom comments made by high profile politicians as quoted in a tell-all book Game Change expected to hit bookshelves January 12, 2010.  What has made the [...]

This past week Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was forced to apologize when he was quoted in a upcoming book that Obama was “light skinned” and he had “no Negro dialect.” Well, that just didn’t sound good.  No way around that. But let’s think about this for a second, Reid was saying something that [...]

It’s my understanding that there is some liberal fallout because for the 2010 U.S. Census, they have decided to include the term “Negro” as a racial designation along with “African Am. and Black” for the same check box. My first understanding of what happened was watching this on The Rachel Maddow Show clip.  I like [...]

Continued from the previous post because I figure y’all wouldn’t be reading a 3,000+ word post. 2005 – Hurricane Katrina, Terry Schivo In March 2005, we all remember the Terry Schivo case where the entire country joined a pro-life debate, not about unborn fetuses, but rather about a Florida woman who had entered a vegetative [...]

So, now as we have entered a new decade, or at least a new 10 year period, let us look back at the top ten moments that have had an impact on our lives.  Or have they?  Honestly, we live in a 24-hour news cycle and we’re much more apt to talk about Tiger Woods [...]