Actually, it was totally laughable earlier the last seven days. On August 8th, Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick officially shamed much of Black America when he got arrested. The Black blogosphere went crazy and we all started quoting random facts about blacks living in cities, mentioning the Chocolate Cities of Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Gary, Ind., Chicago […]
Read more "Are We Being Fair to Kwame Kilpatrick?"Usually I post these Uppity Updates when, as the saved folk say, “there’s about to be a shift atmosphere.” The shift is that I’m about to end my internship. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! This has been a long summer, I recently got off the phone with Mama Uppity and I realised that once I return back to my […]
Read more "An Uppity Update"I was flipping channels after typing up another blog, which has yet to be revealed and is kept in a secret location, I flipped past the Golf Channel–and I saw a black person. This black person in fact. Actually, what caught my eye was that in the interview he had on a bowtie and suspenders, […]
Read more "An Uppity Negro Award"This is a feature I’ve kept up everytime something in the news surfaces that just has NO apparent explanation and just totally stops me in my tracks. One was Pat Buchanan’s explanation that blacks should be thankful for slavery because it brought us to the wonderfulness that is the effing country. **rolls eyes** But this […]
Read more "I Have No Words…Girl with Tourettes Syndrome Displays Blatant Prejudice"Those of you that have been keeping up with my blog this summer you know that I’m in an internship where I’m the ONLY black person; moreover, that I’ve only had conversations with less than five black people this entire summer. So, when I got back from Phliadelphia I was starting to feel the effects […]
Read more "In Honor of the ‘Quilt Sewers’"I’m going to be at work tomorrow and I just got word late tonight that CNN is supposed to have a mixed panel of college students to speak on their response to Black in America. They showed a panel of three blacks, two young black women who were seniors at Spelman and I guess presumably […]
Read more "Can Someone Watch CNN’s College Panel on ‘Black in America’ for me"This CNN special blew up bigger than they expected. I’m quite sure. I don’t know what to really say, I’ve heard both sides of the argument as far as how effective the special was. But, guess what, I haven’t seen it in its entirety. I fully saw the Essence/CNN panel last week, and I thought […]
Read more "In the Midst of Being ‘Black in America’"[Editor’s note: This post has images and language that some readers may find offensive. Reader discretion is advised.] “A very close look at some of the biggest issues affecting the black community today….” “Not a story about black people in this country, a story abut Americans in this country…they are black Americans…a story that […]
Read more "Cable News Network, CNN, announces name change to Caring Negro Network"Maybe it’s just the particular churches I’ve visted, but by in large, for some reason, the young organ players, usually don’t do a lot of soloing. Not saying they can’t, I fully believe these kats are gifted to do so, but for whatever reason church service doesn’t allow them to do so. Ran across the […]
Read more "For Those Who Remember…the Organ Solos at the Old Church"I actually don’t have a lot to say other than point out the fact that this speech in Cincinatti at some NAACP convention it was one Obama’s more average and mediocre, generic speeches. I think the first half about governmental policies and the socio-economic structures that need changing was wonderful, and I personally think his […]
Read more "A Midnight (well, 11:04pm) Post on Obama’s NAACP Speech"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 