This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. That’s the famous last stanza from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Man” more or less concerning the sign of the times following World War I in […]
Read more "The Toppling of an Administration"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"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"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"In the spirit of laziness and the fact that I couldn’t think of anything else that I could really say different than what I did last summer, I’m running the post I dropped on Independence Day that I did last year. Maybe this time people’ll comment on it. JLL …as we celebrate yet another year […]
Read more "Again, on this Independence Day…"So, it just dropped on the news wire, so to speak (clearly we have internet now with telephones and emails and Blackberrys) but that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate with Sen. John McCain, will resign as of July 26th from her office as Alaska Governor. This is the CNN story from AP: […]
Read more "Breaking News: Sarah Palin Resigns as Alaska Governor"I remember in my Finance 101 class the professor giving us the formulas for how to figure out return on investment of the principal or capital deposit. The answer usually produced what was also known as the rate of return, either in fraction or percentage form. It’s basic math, the final value of the investment […]
Read more "Members of the Black Church Should Demand A Return on Investment"Most liberals are familiar with the phrase “[speak] truth to power” which I always loosely associated with social justice messages, particularly those from the pulpit. But, when pressed on the issue, I wasn’t able to give a cogent definition of what the “truth” was and let alone what the “power” was. So when I heard […]
Read more "Speaking Truths That Empower"I guess with the Today Show doing a piece on Chicago’s Olympic bid for the 2016 Summer Games earlier this week, it solidified that the rest of the country was aware of the city’s bid. And I guess it was the beginning of the country’s rallying cry to the International Olympic Committee for the Games […]
Read more "Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?"I haven’t time right now to write a whole post about it and since I got an email about this Essence article from a fellow reader, I’ve decided to post the Essence magazine article entitled “Is Sorry Enough? Black Lawmakers Respond to Senate’s Apology for Slavery” written by Cynthia Gordy and let you all discuss it […]
Read more "So We Finally Got An Apology for Slavery–and then they took it back"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 