Usually I post these Uppity Updates when, as the saved folk say, “there’s about to be a shift atmosphere.” The shift is that I’m about to end my internship. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! This has been a long summer, I recently got off the phone with Mama Uppity and I realised that once I return back to my […]
Read more "An Uppity Update"Just to let those reader’s know who don’t already check this blog, I was the featured guest blogger on AverageBro’s blog. Yup, the number two blog on my blogroll on the right of the screen (at least in the current format). I did a blog entitled “Why The Black Community Is Willing to Give Obama A […]
Read more "UNN Featured Guest Post"I was flipping channels after typing up another blog, which has yet to be revealed and is kept in a secret location, I flipped past the Golf Channel–and I saw a black person. This black person in fact. Actually, what caught my eye was that in the interview he had on a bowtie and suspenders, […]
Read more "An Uppity Negro Award"In fact, on the contrary, we’re only ready for a president, who happens to be black. Well, let me first put a few things out here just so you know where I’m coming from. I personally believe that there NEEDS to be a Congressional resolution that formerly apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow laws to […]
Read more "The United States is Not Ready for a Black President"Well, this is all new to me, but I’m going to give it a go. It’s the nominating season for the 2008 Black Weblog Awards. I’d love to be nominated for something! If you feel the same way, click here so you can go and do your thing for The Uppity Negro Network, the place where you […]
Read more "Show Me Some Love!"This is a feature I’ve kept up everytime something in the news surfaces that just has NO apparent explanation and just totally stops me in my tracks. One was Pat Buchanan’s explanation that blacks should be thankful for slavery because it brought us to the wonderfulness that is the effing country. **rolls eyes** But this […]
Read more "I Have No Words…Girl with Tourettes Syndrome Displays Blatant Prejudice"Continuing the tradition of Guest blogs, I bugged Uppity Friend to no end to do a guest blog. She finally got her topic as we were walking from the U Street corridor to Howard’s campus back in May when she had come out here to the “urreah.” Please read, and leave feedback, I’d love to […]
Read more "UNN Guest Blog: Why We Only Speak To Men We Meet Indoors"Those of you that have been keeping up with my blog this summer you know that I’m in an internship where I’m the ONLY black person; moreover, that I’ve only had conversations with less than five black people this entire summer. So, when I got back from Phliadelphia I was starting to feel the effects […]
Read more "In Honor of the ‘Quilt Sewers’"I’m going to be at work tomorrow and I just got word late tonight that CNN is supposed to have a mixed panel of college students to speak on their response to Black in America. They showed a panel of three blacks, two young black women who were seniors at Spelman and I guess presumably […]
Read more "Can Someone Watch CNN’s College Panel on ‘Black in America’ for me"This CNN special blew up bigger than they expected. I’m quite sure. I don’t know what to really say, I’ve heard both sides of the argument as far as how effective the special was. But, guess what, I haven’t seen it in its entirety. I fully saw the Essence/CNN panel last week, and I thought […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 