This was a post I had been planning to write for some time after some of the major natural disasters we had seen in the news. It probably began around the Haitian earthquake, but I’m sure my mind was more focused on the horrendous theology of Pat Robertson and his comments surrounding a deal with […]
Read more "The Unnatural Politics and Religion of Natural Disasters"Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
Read more "Donald Trump Asks to see Jesus’ Birth Certificate and Why He is a Racist"Mourners file into New Mount St. Nevermind Missionary Baptist Church to funeralize Black Intelligentsia. The public had endured a long painful and debilitating disease close to twenty years. Maybe more. The mourners pack into the church on a hot, sultry day and even with the air conditioning on full blast, it does nothing for the […]
Read more "A Requiem for Black Intelligentsia"One of my friends on Facebook posted as his status on March 15, only a few days after the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan Does Japan really need our help? I think they are fully capable of helping themselves. America’s priorities are so messed up! Aside from my response, which I’ll get to later, one […]
Read more "What Do We Owe The Japanese? The Aftermath of the Tsunami"On this past Sunday night, ESPN had a much anticipated documentary on the namesake Fab Five team of starters on the 1991-92 Michigan (University of Michigan) basketball squad. They’re known for radically changing the aesthetics of college basketball and the NBA as we know it–and being good basketball players at that. For what was a […]
Read more "The Strange Occurrence of the Uppity Negro and the Uncle Tom: Jalen Rose and Grant Hill"Last night I received an email last night on Facebook email that led me to the blog of Rai King. The article was sensationally entitled “Taking A Stand Against a Child Molesting Pastor.” I went on to read the article and realized that this was a piece written naming Bishop Johnathan Alvarado of Total Grace […]
Read more "Living In Lo-Debar: The Miscommunication of Religious Politics"Corporal punishment in schools has been an issue of debate for a couple of centuries in Western society in the modern era. To fast forward to just the last century or so there had been cases of corporal punishment that wasn’t just extended toward children, but also toward women as well. It wasn’t until the […]
Read more "Corporal Punishment and the Pornography of Violence: An Armchair Case Study of St. Augustine Catholic School"Today, The Urban Politico and The Uppity Negro have joined forces to tackle an impending question that has rapidly moved to the forefront of our collective minds in these recent days since we’ve officially arrived in the year 2011: Will President Barack Obama be re-elected next year? It’s a simple question but it doesn’t necessarily […]
Read more "Point-Counterpoint Guest Post: Why Obama WILL Be Re-Elected Next Year"Today on Facebook, one of my professors had posted a link to the New York Times article covering the Sons of the Confederacy and their commemoration of the swearing in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis 150 years earlier on February 19, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama, the first capital of the Confederate States of America (CSA). […]
Read more "Dealing With Racism in a Post-Racial America"I get a LOT of emails from concerned readers of the personal sort, and I get a fair amount of emails about various blog promotions. Here’s a rule of thumb for anyone reading this: I usually don’t add blogs that I don’t frequent. If I added every blog that someone solicited to me via […]
Read more "Promoting Literature for Black History Month — and other Housekeeping rules"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 