The less and less I’ve found myself blogging over the past couple of months, when I do I try and add something new to the conversation. Something new doesn’t necessarily mean adding something contrary or opposing to what’s already been said, but often times it is and sometimes it’s just taken that way. But this […]
Read more "A Final Word on President Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus"Seeing as how I have a “day job” now, I’ve noticed my posts have gotten farther and farther between–monthly almost. But nonetheless, I’m still here in the blogosphere and you can check out my comments on some other famous blogs that I visit pretty regularly. That being said a lot has happened in the month […]
Read more "Uppity Updates"A little known factoid about me is that I like modern Westerns. I don’t know what it is about them, but I do. Personally I blame the “Back to the Future” trilogy. That was a movie my parents had taped for me, only had part two and part three, but I watched them on […]
Read more "How The West Was Won: Violence in the American Wild, Wild West"It would have been nice if Dr. Cornel West never made the personal comments on Obama, but it was an interview by Chris Hedges of Truthdig.com entitled “The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic” and questions were asked to which West answered. It does seem petty on West’s part, but honestly, we all have an outsiders view […]
Read more "The Rage of Black Academia: Melissa Harris-Perry and Cornel West, A Collegiate Conundrum"This was a post I had been planning to write for some time after some of the major natural disasters we had seen in the news. It probably began around the Haitian earthquake, but I’m sure my mind was more focused on the horrendous theology of Pat Robertson and his comments surrounding a deal with […]
Read more "The Unnatural Politics and Religion of Natural Disasters"Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
Read more "Donald Trump Asks to see Jesus’ Birth Certificate and Why He is a Racist"Today, The Urban Politico and The Uppity Negro have joined forces to tackle an impending question that has rapidly moved to the forefront of our collective minds in these recent days since we’ve officially arrived in the year 2011: Will President Barack Obama be re-elected next year? It’s a simple question but it doesn’t necessarily […]
Read more "Point-Counterpoint Guest Post: Why Obama WILL Be Re-Elected Next Year"Today on Facebook, one of my professors had posted a link to the New York Times article covering the Sons of the Confederacy and their commemoration of the swearing in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis 150 years earlier on February 19, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama, the first capital of the Confederate States of America (CSA). […]
Read more "Dealing With Racism in a Post-Racial America"At the risk of sounding yet another clarion call for action that goes unheard, I still feel compelled to discuss the massive and total failure of many of our systems that are in place within the boundaries of the black community. The failure to do what needs to be done is comparable to the levee […]
Read more "State of Emergency: We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest"In March 2009, not even a full three months after President Barack Obama had been sworn into office, I wrote a blog entitled “Celebrating Obama as Head of Empire.” It flew under the radar for the most part except for my then small blogging audience that read and commented. It was a notion that I […]
Read more "We Do Big Things: Celebrating Obama as Head of Empire, Redux"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 