It’s old news by now, but given the fact that I’ve been AWOL for now over a week, I feel the need to write about it. Yes, it’s the story of Ashley Todd. Below is a preliminary report on Ashley Todd that made national news. A McCain campaign volunteer who reported that a tall black […]
Read more "Are Black Men Always the Culprit?"Really, I’ve had it up to here. **points to my eyes** This political season has worn me OWT! Maybe it’s because I’m blogging and I’m looking at things different; or maybe it’s because this is the first time I’ve had 24 hour cable access–I don’t know. But what I do know is that barring anything […]
Read more "My Final Political Post Prior To November 5th"This is a short post. But seriously come on now, I mean, granted this presidential race is NOT over by a longshot, but the fact that retired General Colin Powell, a Republican, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy today proves to me that McCain is really off of his rocker. I mean, if Colin Powell could […]
Read more "Colin Powell Endorses Sen. Barack Obama–Whoda thunkit?"I treated myself on Friday night to go see Bill Maher’s new movie “Religulous.” I joked, half serious that I was renouncing Christianity and assuming a belief system based on love. As far as I’m concerned Maher did a pretty accurate depiction of everyday, borderline evangelical Christianity in this country. The opening venue is a […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: ‘Religulous’ Movie Review"Earlier this week before I got swamped down with being here in school, I posted a blog called What’s Your Hood Status? that tackled the issue of the fine line between being uppity and being elitist and how does one balance that without being elitist. I had a simple answer: Let me drive a Dodge Charger […]
Read more "What’s Your ‘Hood Status? Pt. II"YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I’ve been around for ONE whole year!!!! YUP, it was a year ago today that my friend at Soul Jonz sat down with me and suggested I started a blog. And my first blog was posted on October 15, 2007. Here are a few interesting statistics about my blog. As of this posting, 48, […]
Read more "Celebrating A Double Anniversary"Especially since this summer, anyone who has been around me knows what two kinds of cars I want. First of all I drive a 2001 Chrysler Concorde right now. When I got down to ATL my friends, well Supreme Uppity nick named it “The Cruise Ship” or “The Boat.” I remembered when we got like 10 […]
Read more "What’s Your ‘Hood Status?"We’ve all heard of the blog “Stuff White People Like” (wow, they’re using the same WordPress format as I do and they’ve paid to get that “.wordpress” dropped from theirs, don’t worry about it, I’m gonna do it one of these days) and the answer to it “Stuff Black People Love” and it’s close cousin […]
Read more "Things (This) Uppity Negro Likes: Benjamin Bixby Clothing Line"After my internship this summer, I’m quite under the realisation that God is much bigger than how our own contexts usually confine God. God is equally in the 10:30 am coffee break between the 9:30 am and 11am service as God is in the shout or the contemporary version of the ring shout. I’ve struggled […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: Who Defines Christianity?"I mean wow. Here’s a story that covered this mess. It could have been Ovama or Ofama. Or even Olama. But with one “s” the Rensselaer County Board of Elections turned a single wrong letter into a national embarrassment Friday. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s last name is spelled “Osama” on some 300 absentee ballots […]
Read more "I Have No Words…Barack ‘Osama’ Found on Absentee Ballot"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 