Anyone who knows something about me knows that I don’t do video games. I’ve never owned a system–Playstation, no Game Cube, no Xbox and not even the old school Nintendo 64, SegaGenesis or anything like that. Now, don’t get it twisted, I will get on Mario Kart and whoop ass though, lol. But, the computer […]
Read more "It’s Not The People, It’s The System"I’ve been rather conscious in the past about not putting people on blast from my blog. It’s rather easy given that many of my topics are about religion and it’s rather easy to call out church names and pastor names. Aside from big timers like a T.D. Jakes or a Creflo Dollar or a Bishop […]
Read more "Oh, P.S., On A Final Note…Since I have the floor…"I’m doing a series, just about three or four, might be five, can’t remember, blog posts that I had actually typewritten on a Royal Typewriter Futura. These are my thoughts during that fateful period this past summer while I was on my internship and was without my laptop for about three FULL weeks. I had […]
Read more "From The Uppity Negro Network, Living In Liminality, The Typewriter Series Presents: “The Simpler Things In Life”"Recently as we’ve decided to talk a bit more candidly and intelligently about race in our own community, I’ve heard a slightly different take on the whole “light skinned” vs. “dark skinned” debate, or in other words, the whole field Negro versus house Negro dichotomy. I had approached this topic back in May 2008 referring […]
Read more "Revisiting the Field Negro and the House Negro"Anyone who’s known me since about, oh, 2005 knows where my ultimate goal in life is: Washington, D.C. I know sometimes you’re supposed to keep some things “close to your heart” a lesson many of us hear preached and taught to us via Joseph the dreamer from the Hebrew Bible book of Genesis. We all […]
Read more "Things This Uppity Negro Likes: American Cities Pt. 1: Washington, D.C."If you want to view this an apology, by all means do so, but even I’ll admit it’s going to be a half-hearted one. I talked over the whole Michael Jackson death with my friend on Sunday afternoon and I was telling him how I felt and what I had written on my blog. We […]
Read more "An Almost Apology….from the Uppity Negro"So, we just got word that television personality Billy Mays was found dead at his home in Tampa, Florida. And of course the blogs and the text messages, and Facebook and Twitter status messages and updates are decrying the deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and are now adding Billy Mays to the […]
Read more "Is One Death Greater Than The Other?"I guess with the Today Show doing a piece on Chicago’s Olympic bid for the 2016 Summer Games earlier this week, it solidified that the rest of the country was aware of the city’s bid. And I guess it was the beginning of the country’s rallying cry to the International Olympic Committee for the Games […]
Read more "Why I’m Against The 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago?"Okay, so this week has been my hell week on my internship. There’s a 9am-2pm session with a bunch of nine and ten year olds, and then we reconvene for the evening session from 5:30-8:30pm with a whole group of kids, pre-K through 12th grade here where I’m interning. It’s just a week long session, […]
Read more "Further Uppity Updates: Hell Week"So just a poll how many of you all would follow me on Facebook? Tryna see if I want to make a full new Facebook account or just keep it as is. Also, another housekeeping note: I’m not super great with the emails people have been sending me as far as adspace is concerned, but […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 