Let the record show that this is my first EVAR sports blog piece. I’m actually creating a new category for it. Now on to business. I usually always scoffed at the comparisons that many cultural critics drew with regards to the NBA players being compared to slaves on the plantation and that the whole deal […]
Read more "It’s An Issue of Brand Loyalty (and some other stuff): Why Lebron James Went to Miami"The DuBois family of Tom, his wife Sara and their daughter Jazmine is an interracial family, with Tom being black, Sara being white and Jazmine being the interracially mixed child of this union. The family lives along with the Freeman clan in the suburb of Woodcrest and the family appears to be friends with the […]
Read more "A Character Case Study of “The Boondocks”: The DuBois Family"NSFW Notwithstanding the great urban prophetic voice of comedian Katt Williams, I think black folk “hate” on each other a bit too much for my comfort. There’s a thin line between legitimate criticism levied against an individual versus just hatin’ on another just because you can. As I see it, too many of us suffer […]
Read more "It’s Easy To Hate, So Don’t"No one really knows how old Robert “Granddad” Freeman is. What we know is that he is the grandfather of both Huey and Riley Freeman who has taken on the parental responsibility of raising his grandkids. The entire show, he never mentions Huey and Riley’s parents or begin to deal at all with them. Robert […]
Read more "A Character Case Study of The Boondocks: Robert “Granddad” Freeman"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"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 