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 "UNN.com Throwback Week — Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?"I reached way back for this Throwback Week post. I was doing an internship in the northwest suburbs of Washington, DC during the summer of 2008 and its experiences certainly gave me a different perspective; a different worldview. This post was a direct result of that summer 2008 experience. I believe its content is still […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — The Dominant Subordinate Culture"In honor of Throwback Week, todays post comes from October 15, 2009. Sit back and enjoy. JLL First stated, what school doesn’t have a dress code somewhere on the books. I know my high school had one, that no one really enforced. My college, Dillard University, had one that they tried to enforce. They were […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — The Crossroads of Assimilation and Elitism: The Implementing of the new Morehouse Dress Code"In honor of the UNN.com Throwback Week, I will be republishing older posts that I consider to be some of my classics. Today’s post was originally published January 12, 2010. JLL 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 […]
Read more "UNN.com Throwback Week — Dealing With The Specter of Ontological Blackness"This past Tuesday this country saw yet another image of a fractured Republican party and a Democratic Party failing to capitalize on the political jackpot this is for them in the upcoming November elections. The Tea Party has yet again reared its ugly head. The headline story has been on now Republican nominee from the […]
Read more "Democracy or Theocracy: The Separation of Church and State"If I recall correctly, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads thusly: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for […]
Read more "Failure To Communicate: When The Press Became The Media"Recently I did a post spurred on by a colleague of mine, sparked by a rather indepth Twitter convo. When he asked how did I feel about Cory Booker and Adrian Fenty (mayors of Newark, NJ and Washington, D.C. respectively) my immediate response was that “they’re ontologically white” and therefore not a part of the […]
Read more "Black Mayors in the U.S., Pt. 2 – The New School"The other day, me and one of my Twitter followers had a rather in-depth conversation surrounding black mayors past and present in the United States and how their cities have faired over the years. Initially it began as a conversation about me not being immediately thrilled with Democratic candidate nominee for U.S. Senate from Illinois Alexi Giannoulias […]
Read more "Black Mayors In The U.S., Part 1 – The Old School"Let it be noted here, that this uppity Negro said it early on: there will be a Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin ticket in the future–very possibly in 2012. Either one as a president, although I do think Beck is a chauvinist and it would certainly be a lot for him to play second fiddle to Sarah […]
Read more "The Gospel According to Glenn Beck and Other Protest Rallies"I really sometimes stand in awe of the political memory of the collective American people. I still stand that in general we don’t remember from week to week barely what happens at the intersection of politics, economics, religion and the general social climate of the day. Those of us who do keep up and try […]
Read more "When Religious Freedom Affects “Real Americans”: The Mosque Near Ground Zero"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 