Last week my friend asked me to lead the discussion for the “Next Gathering” a group of budding theologians who meet for a couple of hours once a month to discuss theology in a slightly more formal setting than just over hot wings and drinks. My colleague asked me to give the preacher’s response to […]
Read more "The Preacher’s Response to the Haitian Earthquake; Pat Robertson’s comments"Editors note: This is a dense post. Grab a doughnut or some tea and buckle in for the ride. In the past week, the country has been treated to backroom comments made by high profile politicians as quoted in a tell-all book Game Change expected to hit bookshelves January 12, 2010. What has made the […]
Read more "Dealing With the Specter of Ontological Blackness"This past week Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was forced to apologize when he was quoted in a upcoming book that Obama was “light skinned” and he had “no Negro dialect.” Well, that just didn’t sound good. No way around that. But let’s think about this for a second, Reid was saying something that […]
Read more "UNN News Briefs–I’m Going THERE!"It’s my understanding that there is some liberal fallout because for the 2010 U.S. Census, they have decided to include the term “Negro” as a racial designation along with “African Am. and Black” for the same check box. My first understanding of what happened was watching this on The Rachel Maddow Show clip. I like […]
Read more "I’m Proud To be an Uppity ‘Negro’ In The 2010 Census"Continued from the previous post because I figure y’all wouldn’t be reading a 3,000+ word post. 2005 – Hurricane Katrina, Terry Schivo In March 2005, we all remember the Terry Schivo case where the entire country joined a pro-life debate, not about unborn fetuses, but rather about a Florida woman who had entered a vegetative […]
Read more "Top Moves of the Decade (Part II, 2005-2009)"So, now as we have entered a new decade, or at least a new 10 year period, let us look back at the top ten moments that have had an impact on our lives. Or have they? Honestly, we live in a 24-hour news cycle and we’re much more apt to talk about Tiger Woods […]
Read more "Top Moves of the Decade (Part I, 2000-2004)"With God’s help I will build and maintain our own community and make my brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and solve them together. With the third night of Kwanzaa, Ujima which means collective work and responsibility, represented by the first green candle (green for the land), again, I have moved into the realm of […]
Read more "Kwanzaa Reflection IV: Ujima-Collective Work and Responsibility"For quite sometime my mother has had the title of this post on the message blackboard in the kitchen. And that saying resonated with me as I saw this Nightline special that aired last week. Here check it out. In case ABC comes and pulls the above clip, in short, Nightline decided to talk about […]
Read more "Black Men Are Good Enough"With God’s help I will participate in the defining of ourselves, naming of ourselves and speaking for ourselves instead of being defined and spoken for by others. Personally, I hold Kujichagulia, self-determination and the first red candle (red representing the blood shed of our ancestors) to the right, in high personal regards. For me this is […]
Read more "Kwanzaa Reflections III: Kujichagulia-Self Determination"Umoja (unity) — With God’s help, I will strive for and maintain unity in the family community, nation and race. Umoja is the first principle of Kwanzaa,and represented by the black candle (black for the people) and attempts to address the impossible. Generally, when we think of unity, or that which is united, we, as modern-day Black […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 