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We’re Going to Hell with the ‘Best Funeral Ever’ Along with ‘The Sisterhood’

January 10, 2013by the uppity negro 3 Comments

I’m really not one for reality television series. I am quite convinced they are the birth of the child of unrepentant banality that has devolved from American culture and the […]

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Church and Society, Cultural Critique, I Have No Words, Pop Culture, Religion, The Color Line
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Django’s Unchained Melody

December 27, 2012by the uppity negro 8 Comments

I remember seeing the trailer for Quentin’s Tarantino “Django’s Unchained” a few months back and I groaned with the rest of the black members of the audience.  Honestly, it wasn’t […]

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Cultural Critique, Movie Reviews, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro, The Color Line
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One Month Later

December 11, 2012by the uppity negro 1 Comment

One month later… There’s not a whole that has changed monumentally surrounding the start of the Obama’s second term living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  For what it’s worth, everything, from […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics
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The Bias of Mainstream Media

September 16, 2012by the uppity negro 5 Comments

Anyone who reads this blog with any level of consistency knows where I stand on the hot-button topics of race, religion, politics and anything else that can be devoured in the […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, Pop Culture, Random Thoughts from an Uppity Negro
"Do not be alarmed, this skin color is just a birthmark."

Why I’m Still Not Voting Republican

September 1, 2012by the uppity negro 10 Comments

This election cycle has been quite the snoozefest. I’ve mad this observation more than once on Twitter and also in a few posts that I’ve done over at FWD Nation […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, The Color Line
June 3, 2012

The Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, greets congregation members during Sunday services in New Orleans. Luter is the new face of the Protestant denomination that formed over a split with its northern counterpart over the issue of slavery before the Civil War. Faced with growing diversity in the United States and declining membership in some of its churches, the denomination is making an effort to distance itself from its troubled racial past.
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How Long? Not Long: Southern Baptist Convention Elects First Black President, Fred Luter

June 19, 2012by the uppity negro 1 Comment

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. That quote from Martin Luther King at the steps of the Alabama state […]

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Church and Society, Cultural Critique, Politics, Religion, The Color Line
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NBA Nerd Swag: The NBA’s Impotent Infantilizing Style

June 12, 2012by the uppity negro 7 Comments

Black fashion in the last three to four years did hard U-turn and at the current moment we’ve completely decided to head retro with fashion and styles on both sides […]

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Cultural Critique, Pop Culture, Sports, The Color Line
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 02:  Journalist Chris Hayes attends PFLAG National's 2012 Straight for Equality Awards gala at the Marriott Marquis Times Square on April 2, 2012 in New York City.  (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

Why Chris Hayes Was Right and Shouldn’t Have Apologized

June 3, 2012by the uppity negro 3 Comments

I know it’s old news, but this was a topic I had intended to weigh in and offer my opinion. In case you missed it, last week MSNBC host Chris […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, Pop Culture
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It’s a Democracy, Not a Theocracy: How The Black Church Gets it Wrong

May 12, 2012by the uppity negro 9 Comments

Let me put a clear disclaimer before I launch into the deep with this blog post: The institutional Black Church as we know it, something that is a proper noun, […]

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Church and Society, Cultural Critique, Politics, Pop Culture, Religion, The Color Line
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Student Loans Are Killing Black Wealth Building Efforts

April 25, 2012by the uppity negro 11 Comments

I just paid my bi-monthly bills two mornings ago. Comfortably so, I might add. But that was because my car is still relatively new and I haven’t run into any […]

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Cultural Critique, Politics, Pop Culture, The Color Line

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