UNN.com Throwback Week — The Crossroads of Assimilation and Elitism: The Implementing of the new Morehouse Dress Code

In honor of Throwback Week, todays post comes from October 15, 2009. Sit back and enjoy. JLL First stated, what school doesn’t have a dress code somewhere on the books. I know my high school had one, that no one really enforced. My college, Dillard University, had one that they tried to enforce. They were […]

UNN.com Throwback Week — Dealing With The Specter of Ontological Blackness

In honor of the UNN.com Throwback Week, I will be republishing older posts that I consider to be some of my classics. Today’s post was originally published January 12, 2010. JLL In the past week, the country has been treated to backroom comments made by high profile politicians as quoted in a tell-all book Game […]

College Bound: The Mythical HBCUs of Movies and Television

I was actually joking around on Twitter earlier about the four major mythical HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) that have permeated a certain section of black consciousness. I was making the joke that I would want to send my child to either Hillman College, Mission College, Atlanta A&T University or Truth University. Those institutions […]

Black Mayors in the U.S., Pt. 2 – The New School

Recently I did a post spurred on by a colleague of mine, sparked by a rather indepth Twitter convo. When he asked how did I feel about Cory Booker and Adrian Fenty (mayors of Newark, NJ and Washington, D.C. respectively) my immediate response was that “they’re ontologically white” and therefore not a part of the […]

Black Mayors In The U.S., Part 1 – The Old School

The other day, me and one of my Twitter followers had a rather in-depth conversation surrounding black mayors past and present in the United States and how their cities have faired over the years. Initially it began as a conversation about me not being immediately thrilled with Democratic candidate nominee for U.S. Senate from Illinois Alexi Giannoulias […]

The Gospel According to Glenn Beck and Other Protest Rallies

Let it be noted here, that this uppity Negro said it early on: there will be a Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin ticket in the future–very possibly in 2012. Either one as a president, although I do think Beck is a chauvinist and it would certainly be a lot for him to play second fiddle to Sarah […]

Lest We Forget… Remembering Hurricane Katrina

Stony the road we trod Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope, unborn had died Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet, Come to a place, for which our father sighed. We have come, over a way that with tears has been watered; We have come, treading our path through […]

When Religious Freedom Affects “Real Americans”: The Mosque Near Ground Zero

I really sometimes stand in awe of the political memory of the collective American people. I still stand that in general we don’t remember from week to week barely what happens at the intersection of politics, economics, religion and the general social climate of the day. Those of us who do keep up and try […]

Lies My Community Told Me: “Black Folk Don’t Do Those Things!”

Like many black folks around this country, our hearts sank, yet again when we discovered that the shooter at the Manchester, Connecticut Budweiser Hartford Distribution plant was black. I, like others I’m sure, immediately said “Black folks don’t do those things” or something similar when we first heard about the news. You know, black folks […]

At The Intersection of Immigration: Politics, Ethics and Religion and the 14th Amendment

I’ve been rather remiss to join the immigration discussion simply because I have mixed feelings and I really don’t want to come off as bigoted and xenophobic. But, the latest round of debates has forced me to attempt to dissect the foolishness that is the conservative meme concerning how to deal with immigrants in this […]

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