I’m not sure if it’s because I was fired up after watching the Popes of Blackness (Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson, Cornel West and Jesse Jackson) along with others of the General Board of Blackness (Donna Brazile, Robert Michael Franklin, Dick Gregory, Na’im Akbar et. al.) at the 2008 State of the Black Union hosted […]
Read more "So when did Bitch become the New Black? I GUESS UNN didn’t get the memo!"Let me first say this: I am against anarchy. I never have nor will I ever, openly endorse the upheaval of a democratic government. Dictatorships and other forms of autocratic governments are an entirely different story; this is to say that I will not openly support the upending of the United States government as we […]
Read more "Let’s Be Realistic About The Revolution"Obamawatch! 2008 continues I do believe that February 19th’s victory of Sen. Barack Obama in the Wisconsin Democratic Party primary is the beginning of the death knell for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Let’s be realistic at this point. She has lost 10 straight primaries in a row beginning with Super Tuesday which was supposed to be the deciding […]
Read more "Go Home Hillary! Go Home, Go Home, Go Home!"Yesterday, February 10th, I attended three different church services, all three associated with different denominations and all three catering to three different needs of different congregations. It was interesting to hear the preaching of all three and the message that they were trying to get across. The first church had a mostly middle-class to upper […]
Read more "Easy like…um, Sunday Morning"I remember I didn’t get my first cell phone until 2004, entering my junior year of college. I also have a good memory of sitting at the top of the stadium seats at a packed basketball game at Dillard and sitting next to my friend when my phone buzzed on my hip. I pulled it […]
Read more "Text message break ups"If I can be personal for a moment…. My cousin asked me to come to Memphis for Thanksgiving break. (So prayerfully I will still have enough monetary resources to return to Chicago for Christmas break.) And I made three stops, one in Anniston, Alabama to buy some Burger King, once in Birmingham to fill up […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 