Is this racist or not? I have cousins that live in rural areas and I remember for the longest that they didn’t have city water, but had dug their own wells. Here’s the July 11th story CNN story below: Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal […]
Read more "Black community denied water for decades, jury says"Sooooo….. As I was driving to Creation Fest last week, I saw something I don’t see everyday. Yeah, one of them. And it was white to boot. I have very mixed feelings about lawn jockeys. I did a quick Wikipedia review, and my confusions were echoed there as well. The article was saying that essentially […]
Read more "Something You Don’t See Everyday: A White Lawn Jockey"Well, wait, I was about to do a quick blog announcing the Hip Hop Vs. America that was showing again debating the sexes. It was hosted by Cousin Jeff last time, and they had the reincarnation of Frederick Douglass, Michael Eric Dyson on the show going against T.I. and Nelly and that episode garnered much respect […]
Read more "BET Steps it up; Mandela removed from US terrorist list"…as we celebrate yet another year of pseudo-liberties, as our civil liberties are constantly under attack in this era of terror. Well, enough about white America, this really just a day off for the rest of us to barbecue. Mama Uppity was always leery of 4th of July picnics and Memorial Day celebrations as well. […]
Read more "On this Independence Day…"I’ve never really said it, but I was always a Will Smith fan–at least as far as acting is concerned. I never bought, nor intended to buy one of his albums, even though he did have that one song I remember, Switch, that I thought was good, he always struck me as an actor, not […]
Read more "When ‘Hancock’ met That Woman"Whew…. (and again I say…) Whew! I just came back from camping with the youth group to Creation Fest 2008! A four day, three night camping experience on the Agape Farms near Mt. Union, Pennsylvania. Suffice it to say, that was not necessarily my cup of tea. However, I must say that I’ve grown from […]
Read more "Guess Who’s Bizzak"I guess I’ll continue this vein of music with the following clip. For those of you at work, bust out the headphones, the language on here is rough: Bats turned me on this one, (and yes for all things hip hop, which I am definitely not check out HipHopDX or his blog on my blogroll) […]
Read more "In honor of Black Music Month: Soulja Boy Tell’em’s Beef with Ice-T"The only thing worse than white innocence is white ignorance. A quick Google search didn’t show that the aforementioned quote is a particularly famous one, so I’m personally attributing it to my friend over at Soul Jonz. That quote was the result of title statement that my host mother told me. We were all sitting […]
Read more "So Hip Hop is from the prison culture? I missed the memo"On Saturday, June 14th, the day before Father’s Day 2008 I received word from Papa Uppity himself that he had what the doctors had termed a heart attack. Whoa. Yeah, that was a blow. I’m an only child and as I’ve gotten older and started to deal with my friends’ parents mortality, but even more […]
Read more "To my only Dad"Today, I had a little change in my pocket so I finally drove up and down the main drag here in Gaithersburg looking for a barber. I saw something that had “platinum” and “barber” in the same name and I figured that it was a black one. So, I got my haircut, experienced my first […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 