Seriously, it’s a lot going on and to devote separate blogs to them would tire me out, so here goes: BP Oil and the White House. It is my understanding that the White House and subsequently Congress’ hands are proverbially “tied” with regards to cleanup issues concerning this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Read more "Uppity Negro News Briefs"Since I’ve been graduating and without a television a LOT of news has happened since mid-April and here goes it with me starting in back chronological order: 1. Georgia’s Attorney General Thurbert Baker blocking the health care law suit Well, clearly GOP Georgia Gov. Sonny “Partly Cloudy” Perdue found a way to get around it, […]
Read more "Uppity Negro News Briefs"Without fail, the wantonly foolish of this country create and invent new reasons that make other countries that are not the United States look more and more appealing for relocation. As if the passing of the immigration reform law last week by Arizona was not enough, and the criticism from the White House of an […]
Read more "American 21st Century Tyranny: Arizona Immigration and other Ethnic Issues"So just recently Greece was yet another nation that is poised to declare it’s insolvency. I heard on NPR that Greece has a debt that is 115% of it’s GDP. That is to say that the Greek economy couldn’t even produce it’s way out of debt if it wanted to. Greece joins the rather short […]
Read more "Is the Experiment of Capitalism Over?"I think I’m going to start a new series, not that I’ve been super successful with my others, but alas, here goes. I know it’s pretty doom and gloom to write about the “lack thereof” particularly in the black communities of this country, or even various other cultural observances, but I do believe that if […]
Read more "The Lack Thereof… Intellectual Black Religious Communities"My friend over at The Critical Cleric had long since said that the black political blogosphere did nothing for him. He went on to elaborate that many writers, he felt, didn’t give enough critical analysis of their own opinions and thoughts and generally just went off the cuff and went forward. At the time, about […]
Read more "Reclaiming The Black Blogosphere: We Must Do Better"Dear Tavis and Al Sharpton, I am writing this open letter to you two because I am confused. The way I heard it, you, Brother Tavis, called out Rev. Al on the Tom Joyner Morning Show earlier this week and criticized him for not being open about what was said when President Obama met with […]
Read more "An Open Letter To Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton"I just came from spending the better part of my afternoon with my friend, The Critical Cleric after I dropped off my application to Emory’s Candler School of Theology and somehow as we were sitting at Landmark Jr. cafe, and we were discussing this one young lady who went to our school (now his alma […]
Read more "North Versus South: Social Awareness Versus Black Elitism"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"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 