[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"I had initially planned to write a blog entitled “The Crisis of Leadership” back almost a month ago to really examine just how President Barack Obama was handling the oil spill. I remember listening to one of his press conferences around the time the conservative media was really pressing the connection of the candidacy of […]
Read more "The Genius of Obama: Damned If He Do, Damned If He Don’t"This should be a short post, I don’t have much to say about it, but anyone that tries to attempt to racialize this incident needs to be arrested and punched in the face for sheer dumbassery. According to the video, that’s as clear as you can get, there was one single officer who was trying […]
Read more "Don’t Jaywalk In Seattle: You Can Be Punched in the Nose for It"My previous post about the media’s love affair with Chicago and it’s current violence and how it’s linked to current President Barack Obama led me on a journey down a dark corridor of my hometown’s history of violence just in my life time. I had intended to call the names of some of the young […]
Read more "Goddamn America"I was born and raised in Chicago. Born at the now defunct, and as I drove by just this last week, now demolished Michael Reese Hospital. I started kindergarten in 1989 here in Chicago, the first year of School Reform where Chicago Public Schools still had a superintendent and the establishment of the Local School Council was […]
Read more "Mainstream Media and their Love Affair With Chicago’s Violence"Look, I’m not always the biggest fan of our Helen Thomas and how she’ll ask a question that’s slightly off topic. Case in point, she’ll ask about Afghanistan and the press conference is about the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, but to be true to my inner skeptic, let’s keep it one-hunned, she asks valid […]
Read more "When Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Go Far Enough: The Helen Thomas Saga"Editors note: This is probably going to be one of my longer posts, maybe not, depends on how quickly I work it out. But if I go over my standard 1,500 characters so be it. So go get get the tea, coffee or print this bad boy out because I’m here until it’s done. A […]
Read more "Being Black and Dealing With Postcolonialism in a Postmodern World"Last week as I drove back down south to ultimately return my rental car and spend my Memorial Day weekend with friends in Birmingham, Alabama, I said WTH let me listen to conservative radio since I was actually traveling during the day. So, I flipped through the stations trying to find the worst and vilest […]
Read more "My Journey Into Conservative Radio"So, I have a friend who’s going through the similarly titled situation. Both her and the man have decided to stay friends because he’s in the middle of a divorce and both of them are under 30. What’s your advice for her?
Read more "How To Be Friends With Someone Who’s Married, But You Still Want…For Dummies"The other week on a certain blog, another blogger had contributed a post that spoke to the growing trend secularism within the black community. This particular blogger had taken exception to the one and only Steve Harvey (although can I blame her) concerning a statement he made about black women choosing “a good black man.” […]
Read more "My Encounter With An Atheist, and others who suffer from the I’m The Only Enlightened One Syndrome"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 