I wrote back in April or something about “In Defense of the Black Church: America’s Chicken’s Are Coming Home to Roost” borrowing from the phrase made even more popular from Jeremiah Wright’s rousing sermon following the 9/11 attacks on the previous Tuesday. As I watched CNN do the story digging into Sarah “I’m still picking which […]
Read more "In Defense of The Church: The Need for a Public Theologian"Hmmm, round about January 3rd, at about 10 o’clock Central Time, I did hear a symphony. It wasn’t the same symphony that Keith Olbermann was talking about following Sen. Barack “I Shoot Threes Only” Obama acceptance speech, but it was from the same man nonetheless. I’ve already written how much that speech sent me over […]
Read more "They Got The Word! I’ll Be At The Great Coronation"Well, I just got word of this. First of all, yes, uppity is a racial term and for U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland from rural Coweta County in Georgia and I really don’t buy the argument that he’s never heard it as such. The man was born in 1950 in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m quite sure that […]
Read more "Damn Right! The Obama’s Are Uppity Negroes"Maybe the cosmic forces don’t like the end August. Or maybe it’s just August in general as far as I’m concerned personally that major events happen. This is also the beginning of the school year for many students, a time a shifting and transitioning. It is nearing the time that many farmers are doing final […]
Read more "August 29th"“They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set to high. They said this country was too divided….but at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn’t do…” Personally, Democratic Nominee Senator Barack Obama’s victory speech on January 3rd following the Iowa caucuses was my favorite. It […]
Read more "August 28th"I’ll admit that I’ve kind of been baffled by gender roles. Like, I never understood why I couldn’t hit girls, especially if she hit me first. I never understood why a man was supposed to walk on the street side with a woman–especially when it seemed Mama Uppity frustratingly was the only woman who seemed […]
Read more "Put Your Hat Back On!"Raving Black Lunatic wrote a while back about swagger in regards to Barack Obama and this whole idea of him coming off as overconfident, and arrogant and dare I say–uppity. But, I debated after hearing yesterday’s sermon from Rev. Otis Moss III as to whether or not I wanted to write about swagger, and I […]
Read more "Don’t Hate on My Swagger"We used to lounge around a lot during the internship, particularly if it was a slow day, and given that we had three couches in the room that was our office, it was common practice to stretch out on the couch and put our heads on the pillows–although God knows who had farted or put […]
Read more "Are Blacks High Maintenance?"First of all, congratulations to Michael Phelps. I don’t know what it must feel like to have such a mountaintop moment. I’ve never experienced such sheer euphoria in my life. Those normal moments such as graduations usually feel as such, but both my high school and college graduations were shattered by extenuating circumstances, both of […]
Read more "What Happens When the Unreachable is Reached?"Okay, now everyone is aware of the “wink” seen ’round the world. If not then I’m suggesting you may be living under a rock if you haven’t heard about the picture above. But, if that wasn’t enough, there’s another picture that surfaced from the Spanish women’s basketball team and the Spanish tennis team. And […]
Read more "Should Blacks Take a Lesson From the Chinese?"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 