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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Rahm Emmanuel, Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, stands just outside the Oval Office at the White House Monday Nov 2, 2009

No Country for Rahm Emanuel and Other Potential Candidates for the Mayor of Chicago

September 30, 2010by the uppity negro 3 Comments

Honestly, for about 25 seconds of my life I saw myself as the youngest elected mayor of the City of Chicago once I saw the first tweet that Hizzoner Richard […]

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Politics, The Color Line

UNN.com Throwback Week — Revisiting the Field Negro and the House Negro

September 27, 2010by the uppity negro 6 Comments

This is a post that I pulled from August 2009, barely 8 months into Obama’s new presidency, after a summer doing an internship in Jacksonville, Florida and about to enter […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line

UNN.com Throwback Week — Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?

September 26, 2010by the uppity negro 1 Comment

I 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 […]

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Politics, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line

UNN.com Throwback Week — The End of the Age

September 25, 2010by the uppity negro Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago, one of my professors had us read the “Mini-Apocalypse” in the biblical scriptures found in the Gospel of Matthew 24:3-8 As Jesus was sitting on […]

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Church and Society, Cultural Critique, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, Religion

UNN.com Throwback Week — Being Black and Dealing With Postcolonialism in a Postmodern World

September 24, 2010by the uppity negro Leave a comment

Editors note: This is probably going to be one of my longer posts, maybe not, depends on how quickly I work it out. But if I go over my standard […]

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Church and Society, Cultural Critique, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, Religion, The Color Line

UNN.com Throwback Week — The Dominant Subordinate Culture

September 23, 2010by the uppity negro Leave a comment

I reached way back for this Throwback Week post.  I was doing an internship in the northwest suburbs of Washington, DC during the summer of 2008 and its experiences certainly […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line
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And The Walls Come Tumba’ling Down: The Religious Politics of Eddie Long

September 22, 2010by the uppity negro 20 Comments

Hot off the press from tonight, the latest in news to affect the institutional Black Church, both old and new, has been the lawsuit against Bishop Eddie Long of the […]

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Church and Society, Cultural Critique, Pop Culture, Religion, The Color Line

UNN.com Throwback Week — The Crossroads of Assimilation and Elitism: The Implementing of the new Morehouse Dress Code

September 21, 2010by the uppity negro Leave a comment

In honor of Throwback Week, todays post comes from October 15, 2009.  Sit back and enjoy. JLL First stated, what school doesn’t have a dress code somewhere on the books. […]

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Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line

UNN.com Throwback Week — Dealing With The Specter of Ontological Blackness

September 20, 2010by the uppity negro Leave a comment

In honor of the UNN.com Throwback Week, I will be republishing older posts that I consider to be some of my classics.  Today’s post was originally published January 12, 2010. […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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Throwback Week!!

September 20, 2010by the uppity negro Leave a comment

Not because I don’t feel like writing, or that I’m busy, but really, I want to reach back find what I consider to be some of my classic posts, and […]

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