My friend over at The Critical Cleric had long since said that the black political blogosphere did nothing for him. He went on to elaborate that many writers, he felt, didn’t give enough critical analysis of their own opinions and thoughts and generally just went off the cuff and went forward. At the time, about […]
Read more "Reclaiming The Black Blogosphere: We Must Do Better"When dealing with the hip-hop generation and most certainly what M.K. Asante, Jr. refers to as the emergence of the post-hip hop generation, one must understand that much of the state of affairs within the inner cities is a result of a systemic governmental policies on the federal, state and local levels. At issue is […]
Read more "Hip Hop and the State of the Black Church, pt. 1"The following is a response piece from a forwarded article to me by one of my readers and Twitter followers @tsboddy on a piece that Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Ph.D. wrote for the Huffington Post entitled “The Black Church is Dead.” Clearly this is up my alley and I’ve finally gotten around to responding to […]
Read more "An Uppity Negro Response to Eddie Glaude’s “The Black Church is Dead”"Okay, I watched the FAMU Sex Tape. I know I was supposed to give a response to Eddie Glaude’s article about the death of the Black Church, but this just seemed a bit more pressing. So some time last night, on Twitter of course, I started seeing one of my followers talk about a FAMU […]
Read more "Yes, I Watched the FAMU Sex Tape"This is a piece forwarded to me by one of my readers and Twitter followers @tsboddy on a piece that Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Ph.D. wrote for the Huffington Post entitled “The Black Church is Dead.” Clearly this is up my alley and I plan to have a response to this later on this week. […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: Eddie Glaude’s “The Black Church Is Dead?”"Dear Tavis and Al Sharpton, I am writing this open letter to you two because I am confused. The way I heard it, you, Brother Tavis, called out Rev. Al on the Tom Joyner Morning Show earlier this week and criticized him for not being open about what was said when President Obama met with […]
Read more "An Open Letter To Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton"This should be easy. If you’ve read my blog regularly, you know how I feel: for the most part I’m pro Jesse and Al. Perhaps Jesse does have a bit of a more “tainted” past if you want to call it that. But, I still personally believe that Jesse has always publicly said what was […]
Read more "Jesse and Al or Al and Jesse"In the words and tonality of President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address let me be perfectly clear that I hate elitism in the black community with a burning passion. It has done nothing but separate us economically and rendered us even further divided on class boundaries. That being said, I’m over […]
Read more "The Failure of Black Elitism: An Armchair Case Study of Morehouse College"I just came from spending the better part of my afternoon with my friend, The Critical Cleric after I dropped off my application to Emory’s Candler School of Theology and somehow as we were sitting at Landmark Jr. cafe, and we were discussing this one young lady who went to our school (now his alma […]
Read more "North Versus South: Social Awareness Versus Black Elitism"So I’ve fallen on hardtimes for the last couple of weeks. First, my laptop had went out and I STILL have not gotten it back–fixed at least. Then I was just slowly becoming broke. I had $50 to last me two weeks–minimum. As of this morning, I have $1 in my pocket. I mean, push […]
Read more "A Lot Going On…"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 