Pretty self-explanatory; these are the issues that deal with modern and popular culture that have nothing to really do with religion or the church
One of the most hits from posts I’ve written have come from a series of character case studies I did on “The Boondocks,” the Cartoon Network show. Now I’m not sure if it’s because of the pictures that I’m getting hits or whether it really is people stumbling upon them and reading them. I […]
Read more "A Character Case Study of “Django Unchained”"I remember over a year ago I somewhat promised myself that I wasn’t going to use my blogging voice to delve into the torrid cyber-battles between black women and black men. One relatively well-known black female blogger (who come to find out we have tons of friends in common and she’s dating a grade school […]
Read more "A Black Man’s Response to “Such A Big Ego: Why Some Black Men Have A Problem With ‘Scandal'”"I’m really not one for reality television series. I am quite convinced they are the birth of the child of unrepentant banality that has devolved from American culture and the Enemy itself. Reality TV reflects the lowest common denominator of what ever should be shown on television and there is no intrinsic value to be had […]
Read more "We’re Going to Hell with the ‘Best Funeral Ever’ Along with ‘The Sisterhood’"I remember seeing the trailer for Quentin’s Tarantino “Django’s Unchained” a few months back and I groaned with the rest of the black members of the audience. Honestly, it wasn’t at the casting choice of Jamie Foxx, or even seeing Leonardo DiCaprio as a slave owner, but really it was the issue of slavery. We, […]
Read more "Django’s Unchained Melody"Anyone who reads this blog with any level of consistency knows where I stand on the hot-button topics of race, religion, politics and anything else that can be devoured in the context of cultural criticism. Most people know, I self-identify as a Democratic socialist at the heart of my political being–meaning I support the idea […]
Read more "The Bias of Mainstream Media"Black fashion in the last three to four years did hard U-turn and at the current moment we’ve completely decided to head retro with fashion and styles on both sides of the gender aisle. I remember watching “Precious” which took place in the late 1980s and I couldn’t necessarily see a big difference in the […]
Read more "NBA Nerd Swag: The NBA’s Impotent Infantilizing Style"I know it’s old news, but this was a topic I had intended to weigh in and offer my opinion. In case you missed it, last week MSNBC host Chris Hayes’ made some comments about the word “hero” attached to the word “soldier.” I remember reading the initial story from a couple of tweets and […]
Read more "Why Chris Hayes Was Right and Shouldn’t Have Apologized"Let me put a clear disclaimer before I launch into the deep with this blog post: The institutional Black Church as we know it, something that is a proper noun, has entered it’s final stages of life. The metonymical phrase “the Black Church” is rather black churches that have a different socio-economic and political outlook […]
Read more "It’s a Democracy, Not a Theocracy: How The Black Church Gets it Wrong"I just paid my bi-monthly bills two mornings ago. Comfortably so, I might add. But that was because my car is still relatively new and I haven’t run into any costly repairs. I rent an apartment so any problems that occur rests on the building’s management and not out of pocket and I finally paid off […]
Read more "Student Loans Are Killing Black Wealth Building Efforts"If I had to give this piece a subtitle to the subtitle it would be what the name of the article I have over at FWDNation “a devolution of postblackness in primetime.” In case you’re wondering what I’m talking about, it stems from an interview that Touré gave on Piers Morgan’s CNN show two weeks ago. Touré […]
Read more "Touré, Hip Hop Provocateur or Social Media Pimp: A Devolution of Postblackness"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 