Must have a lot on my mind, three posts in one night. I guess I’ve been missing these memo’s lately, like the one my host mother informed me about–you know the one where “hip hop come out of the prison culture” or that the neighborhood around Howard University is a bad neighborhood. So, per the […]
Read more "So Muslim is the New Black? Again I missed the memo"Yes, there is a theme that has been consistent in what I write, more so in my comments on other people’s blogs. Most times I offer anti-intelligence as the reasoning behind people and their actions. To drive the point home, it’s really their reactions. Those who try their best to engage in critical debate and […]
Read more "Philly Debrief Pt. II: Confronting Anti-Intelligence"This is actually a topic I’ve been dying to write, but I figured that it would take some time and that I had a lot to write about it, so bear with me as I gather my thoughts about this particular subject. It was Summer 2006 and I was finishing up at Fisk University my […]
Read more "Philly Debrief: Why I’m a Black African American"The Uppity Negro Network, going against traditional Christian love and sympathy is mildly rejoicing at the death of former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms. The following is from Not Southern Belle, but Southern Snob where she received the following top ten, only worthy to be reproduced yet again on UNN: 10. Strom Thurmond now has […]
Read more "I Have No Words….The Death of Jesse Helms"We all have seen those commercials with children looking lost, with flies lighting on them, distended stomachs from severe starvation; playing or standing on piles of rubbish and garbage and outright sewage. Most of us turn away, including yours truly, because it’s really hard and painful to watch as most of us sit in the […]
Read more "Sponsoring a Dream"Ever since I personally felt dissed by Obama and his disavowal of Jeremiah Wright in late April and more importantly for me, allowing for outright mistruths concerning the Black Church and that which is the black preacher and many other nuances of black culture to be passed on to unsuspecting liberal and conservative whites alike […]
Read more "Obama’s Image Problem"Today, I had a little change in my pocket so I finally drove up and down the main drag here in Gaithersburg looking for a barber. I saw something that had “platinum” and “barber” in the same name and I figured that it was a black one. So, I got my haircut, experienced my first […]
Read more "A ‘Premature Autopsy’"Honestly, I don’t know what to be more torn up about– The death of the great NBC legend from Meet the Press, Tim Russert or the fact that somehow R. Kelly was accquited. Truth be told, I’mmore torn up about two other things, one of which was the fact that I saw Facebook status messages […]
Read more "A Sorrowful Day"Well, where I’m staying at this summer, somehow has fried my wireless connection with their particular router–go figure, so I’m relegated to staying late at my job and using the company’s computer. Hmmmm…wonder what they would say if they decided to do a History check and see name’s like “uppity negro” “averagebro” “black snob” and […]
Read more "An Uppity Update"THIS is a blog I’d rather not feel moved to write. I’ve already set a task before me of a list of blogs that I was supposed to be writing exploring some of the issues surrounding the recent Democratic campaign events. Pushing those issues further make making them less and less relevant. BUT, the fact that […]
Read more "Saving Face over Faith; Pfleger removed from his pastorate"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 