Lord, Christopher Maurice Brown, aka C-Breezy, aka Chris Brown on Sunday night’s annual BET Awards had somewhat of a meltdown. Well, he had a full meltdown actually. He gave one of the best dance performances of the night and clearly killed his tribute to Michael Jackson with his dance moves. Perhaps his moonwalk wasn’t the […]
Read more "Are We Ready To Move Forward? The Chris Brown Saga Continues"In typical 5-4 decision, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court of the United States in McDonald v. Chicago essentially forced the City of Chicago back to the drawing board with it’s handgun ban. The law in the city of Chicago bans handgun ownership prior to the early 1980s. It is illegal, well, it was […]
Read more "Supreme Court to Chicago Handgun Ban: Get Down or Lay Down"[Editor’s Note: This is the second of five installments of character case studies on characters on creator and writer Aaron McGruder’s comic strip now turned animated series on Adult Swim, “The Boondocks.” I feel that each of the characters epitomize a particular social and political archetype or stereotype that is represented in some aspects within […]
Read more "A Character Case Study of “The Boondocks” and Huey Freeman: Is he a Cynic or a Realist?"[Editor’s Note: This is the first of five installments of character case studies on characters on creator and writer Aaron McGruder’s comic strip now turned animated series on Adult Swim, “The Boondocks.” I feel that each of the characters epitomize a particular social and political archetype or stereotype that is represented in some aspects within […]
Read more "A Character Case Study of “The Boondocks” and Riley Freeman: Is He Homophobic or Just Comic Relief?"So, two seconds before I went to write the title of this blog post, it hit me to do a case study, from an Uppity Negro perspective of the hit show on Adult Swim entitled “The Boondocks” created by comic strip writer Aaron McGruder. Initially, I was just going to write about the previous episode […]
Read more "A Character Case Study of “The Boondocks”"Within the past year or so, Americans have heard the words “South Carolina” and “Representative” or “Congressperson” in the “Lieutenant governor” and “Governor” same sentence and phrasing. Nothing really odd about the “Representative” or “Congressman” but really, we’ve been hearing a lot about South Carolina politics. South Carolina state politics are like that of New […]
Read more "Why They Don’t Like Us and Why We Don’t Like Them: It’s Because of South Carolina"[Editors Note: So I wrote the majority of this post by 11:30am this morning and by the time I returned around 3:00pm, McChrystal had “resigned” and Gen. Petraeus had been appointed by President Obama.] Our president, Barack Obama made it clear in April of 2008 that he was a politician and that he was all […]
Read more "The Obama Indecision: The Gen. McChrystal Problem"