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 context of cultural criticism. Most people know, I self-identify as a Democratic socialist at the heart of my political being–meaning I support the idea […]
Read more "The Bias of Mainstream Media"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 as well. This is an election where we lacked the novelty of an (Half)rican American candidate being the first nominee of a major party. We […]
Read more "Why I’m Still Not Voting Republican"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 capitol following the turbulence of the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 rings hollow at times. Sure the arc of the moral universe is […]
Read more "How Long? Not Long: Southern Baptist Convention Elects First Black President, Fred Luter"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 of the gender aisle. I remember watching “Precious” which took place in the late 1980s and I couldn’t necessarily see a big difference in the […]
Read more "NBA Nerd Swag: The NBA’s Impotent Infantilizing Style"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 Hayes’ made some comments about the word “hero” attached to the word “soldier.” I remember reading the initial story from a couple of tweets and […]
Read more "Why Chris Hayes Was Right and Shouldn’t Have Apologized"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, has entered it’s final stages of life. The metonymical phrase “the Black Church” is rather black churches that have a different socio-economic and political outlook […]
Read more "It’s a Democracy, Not a Theocracy: How The Black Church Gets it Wrong"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 costly repairs. I rent an apartment so any problems that occur rests on the building’s management and not out of pocket and I finally paid off […]
Read more "Student Loans Are Killing Black Wealth Building Efforts"If I had to give this piece a subtitle to the subtitle it would be what the name of the article I have over at FWDNation “a devolution of postblackness in primetime.” In case you’re wondering what I’m talking about, it stems from an interview that Touré gave on Piers Morgan’s CNN show two weeks ago. Touré […]
Read more "Touré, Hip Hop Provocateur or Social Media Pimp: A Devolution of Postblackness"I had to be honest with myself over the last few days about why I have been silent about what I consider to be the epitome of one of the greatest travesties of justice that I have seen in the recent years. I heard about Trayvon Martin’s death about a week after it happened and I […]
Read more "Make Your Revolution Relevant: Why I’ve Been Silent About Trayvon Martin"All Hail the Great Theocrat, Rick Santorum the First! I guess that’s what the conservative right wing party is saying in certain corners. I guess I’m taking my cue from the biblical story about Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah who refused to bow to the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who has set up a statue of a Babylonian deity, […]
Read more "The Troubling Theology of Rick Santorum"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 