So, today was more or less the inaugural day of what I plan to be my last year of seminary. **goes into immediate praise break** That being said, I’ve been dealing with some serious anxieties around it. This time of year is always a bit melancholy for me out of the simple fact that I […]
Read more "Start of A New Year: Dealing With Anxieties"I remember in the campaign days, and most certainly after the election that current President Barack Obama was fashioning himself after this country’s 16th president Abraham Lincoln. I remember in my own mind that I thought that that was highly weird, but I figured that since he ran the best campaign this country has ever […]
Read more "Where Obama Made A Mistake"Recently as we’ve decided to talk a bit more candidly and intelligently about race in our own community, I’ve heard a slightly different take on the whole “light skinned” vs. “dark skinned” debate, or in other words, the whole field Negro versus house Negro dichotomy. I had approached this topic back in May 2008 referring […]
Read more "Revisiting the Field Negro and the House Negro"Okay, yesterday was the second worse trip driving back to Chicago. Nothing can ever trump the “wintry mix” I encountered last winter when I came home for Christmas break. Well, nothing unless an accident actually happened which thankfully didn’t. So last night apparently I drove through some counties with active tornado warnings in northwest Indiana […]
Read more "On The Road, I Encountered a Storm"I think this is the longest I’ve went without a post, without me saying I was going to dip out for a minute. Just for a status update, I’m actually in Atlanta now, about to head to Chicago after I fall back asleep for about an hour or so and get ready for that good […]
Read more "Long Time No See"“Any hair is good hair as long it covers my head.” Mama Uppity That’s a scene from the cult classic Spike Lee Joint “School Daze” as Lee grapples with the issues of young, at the time Afro-Americans who were in college. The movie was set at the fictional Mission College in some remote Alabama or […]
Read more "Good and Bad, See If I Care, Good and Bad Hair"Well, I lied. I said I was going to wait until after August 16th to drop a post, but I lied. Circumstances dictated otherwise. My heart was ceremoniously grieved and broken when a couple of weeks ago Fly With Bats had posted something a new single called “Whip It Like A Slave.” And of course […]
Read more "The Emergence of the Newer Negro"Given some events going on at my internship and the fact that I WILL blog about them, even though they are anonymous except for the city, I am going to stay on vacation until August 18th when my first post will drop, and oh will they drop. I’m going to be keeping up with the […]
Read more "Stay Tuned….Please Stand By"I don’t have my computer. A friggin’ APPLE MacBook is in the friggin’ shop–and I don’t have one. I’m blogging on my friend’s computer, typing a sermon on a typewriter at home because otherwise it would be a handwritten mess on Sunday morning. So, I’m not going to stress out over it, but I’m going […]
Read more "I’M ON VACATION"I’m not going to be able to watch this year’s “Black In America, Pt. 2” with America’s favorite Soledad O’Brien. I did have the opportunity to watch it last year and like most in the black blogosphere ripped it to shreds. Most of us leveled the same charge that the two day special highlighted the […]
Read more "The New Peculiar Institution"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 