So this past week allowed for ignorant tycoon Bernard Madoff to finally see the inside of a jail cell rather than his $7,000,000.00 Manhattan penthouse; Pope Benedict XVI, the most conservative we’ve seen in a long time, informed us that condoms increase HIV/AIDS infection, and this was on the heels of the HIV/AIDS numbers for […]
Read more "Which Set of Rules Are We Playing By?"This was a subject I had been thinking about doing for a while, but blogging is really a task, and I’d much rather sit around and watch the television in my absolute free time–which really for the most part is non-existent, I just make what I have free. So, I’ve been rather remiss getting around […]
Read more "Finding Your Wheelhouse"Um, yeah, this whole micro-blogging thing is weird and new. Especially since Facebook’s last update copied the Twitter format almost exactly, it’s like “why not.” I had an account before, but I just didn’t feel like making a big deal about it until now. Hopefully I’m giving the correct link right here for my […]
Read more "The Uppity Negro Is on “Twitter”"Now this is the third run-in with east Texas that I’ve noticed. The first was Jasper, Texas. We all remember Jasper, Texas, the hometown of James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death by John William King, and two other white men back in 1998. And having friends from Texas, they had informed […]
Read more "East Texas Needs to Get It Together: Racial Profiling Still Exists"Just letting the saints know I just bought and iPod Touch. I was informed through email yesterday that I was “a millennial” –just like that and I immediately felt convicted. I’m a musician and have been playing the piano my whole life. I don’t listen to music like that, and I most certainly don’t own […]
Read more "The Uppity Negro Has a Come-up"First some housekeeping stuff: I received two books to review and I’ve been quite remiss in doing so. To the publicists of these books, if you’re reading this blog, I’ve not forgotten about you. I’ve just been swamped with work–I am in grad school. ********************************* Text derives from the Latin textus (a tissue), which is in turn derived […]
Read more "The State of the Black Union and Other Uppity Negroness"It’s my understanding that the whole thing started over a text message. Back in the day this would have been the mysterious “little black book” or a random slip of paper that fell out of a pocket at an inopportune time with seven random digits with a dash between two of them–a phone number. […]
Read more "Things I Learned from Chris Brown and Rihanna"The ethical truth that’s so hard for us to face is that we have a black man presiding over a modern empire that we all live inside and benefit from. The quiet question is what are we celebrating when we celebrate Obama as imperial leader? A friend sent me that in a text message (don’tcha […]
Read more "Celebrating Obama As Head of Empire"It’s been 10 years since the inception of Tavis Smiley’s brain child, the State of the Black Union which has covered a range of issues over the past years from the economy, to the Black Church, the Black Family, Reclaiming Democracy and now this year “Making America as Good as its Promise.” Granted that’s […]
Read more "UNN Watches The 10 Annual State of the Black Union: Making America as Good as its Promise"This was an interesting month for me. It was neatly situated into four compact weeks that were easily to know dates if you remembered your multiples of seven. There wasn’t a leap year. This year wasn’t marked by the campaign seasons, beginning back in February 2007 with Obama announcing his candidacy two years ago. […]
Read more "Good Bye to February"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 