There are only two movies in my lifetime that I ever cried on–or rather allowed myself to cry on. The reuniting scene of Celie and Nettie in “The Color Purple” was the first one at age ten when I snuck and finished watching the movie and was careful to keep my back turned so my […]
Read more "Oh How ‘Precious’"As I was writing the first post, I thought about the fact that there really is a segment of Christianity in this country that truly feels that politics and religion don’t mix. That is to say, that all they need to do is preach Jesus, and him crucified, dead, buried and resurrected and all will […]
Read more "Which Comes First: Religion or Citizenship, Pt. II"This is for those who don’t seem to get it: CHRISTOPHER MAURICE BROWN, AKA CHRIS BROWN WAS WRONG AND SHOULD NOT HAVE HIT ROBYN RIHANNA FENTY, AKA RIHANNA. NO EXCUSES, NO EXPLANATIONS! That being said, here goes. As our respective Twitter followers discovered last Friday night, me and Thembi of What Would Thembi Do? got […]
Read more "An Uppity Perspective: The 20/20 Rihanna Interview And Why Some Black Women Need To…"It’s kind of like the Civil War where brothers fought across the Mason-Dixon line. I don’t want to stain my faith. I don’t want to stain my fellow Muslims and I don’t want to stain my country’s flag.” — Ardi Arkun, 32, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., who joined the Marines in 2000 and was deployed to […]
Read more "Which Comes First: Religion or Citizenship?"I had a commenter tell me that she had noticed marked disillusionment in the tenor of my posts and I didn’t really respond, but if you’re reading this, you’re more than correct. It’s hard being 25 years old and being an African American male who has a wider world view and broader understanding of, hmmm, […]
Read more "Asking The Hard Questions"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 having an issue, more so with young ladies who would come to the cafeteria on the weekends, […]
Read more "The Crossroads of Assimilation and Elitism: The Implementing of the new Morehouse Dress Code"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"So, school has started back and I’m trying to learn biblical Hebrew as a language that’s long be defunct. It’s so outdated that this type of Hebrew consists of an alphabet with no vowels. So the Masoretes came in between A.D. 500 and 1000 and created a “pointed text” in other words creating vowels, for […]
Read more "The Recession’s Racial Divide, Pt. II"Maybe I’ve been wrong about this whole President Barack Obama and his apparently passive aggressive response to the conservative rhetoric. We’ve been long discussing how Obama seems to be unaware of his critics, and in fact how the administration seems to actually concede to criticism (consider how the White House issued a quick change of […]
Read more "Obama: The New Black"So, school has started back and I’m trying to learn biblical Hebrew as a language that’s long be defunct. It’s so outdated that this type of Hebrew consists of an alphabet with no vowels. So the Masoretes came in between A.D. 500 and 1000 and created a “pointed text” in other words creating vowels, for […]
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Joshua Lawrence Lazard 