As you all can kind of figure out, I’m up to my eyes in work dealing with school and I haven’t done a serious blog in a minute. I’m running left and right playing to services on campus and trying to squeeze in classes and schoolwork that I really don’t care about for the […]
Read more "I Want To Teabag the TeaBaggers–the Uppity Way!!"Now this is the third run-in with east Texas that I’ve noticed. The first was Jasper, Texas. We all remember Jasper, Texas, the hometown of James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death by John William King, and two other white men back in 1998. And having friends from Texas, they had informed […]
Read more "East Texas Needs to Get It Together: Racial Profiling Still Exists"It’s been 10 years since the inception of Tavis Smiley’s brain child, the State of the Black Union which has covered a range of issues over the past years from the economy, to the Black Church, the Black Family, Reclaiming Democracy and now this year “Making America as Good as its Promise.” Granted that’s […]
Read more "UNN Watches The 10 Annual State of the Black Union: Making America as Good as its Promise"Okay, the Academy Awards are in two hours and some odd change, let’s see if I can knock out these movie reviews quick fast and in a hurry. Up on the docket first is “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Honest opinion, this past fall, especially this winter fell short on decent movies I wanted […]
Read more "UNN Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"Well, AMEN! Per the title of this post, that been an angle I’ve been pushing subtilely on this blog for some time now. Of course the usuals, like Elizabeth Hasselbeck just now on The View get it wrong. What’s at the center of the controversy is the following quote made by Attorney General Eric Holder during a […]
Read more "Obama Administration’s Silver Lining; Atty. Gen. Eric Holder calls America “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race"Over the last week or so, I kind of got off board with Michael Baisden. I usually find myself driving around metro Atlanta sometime between 12:30 and sometime shortly after 3pm. As a result, that means I get to hear the bastion of mediocrity that is Warren Ballentine. He has his mother come […]
Read more "Is It Really That Serious? Obama vs. “President” Obama"My sincere apologies. It must be the start of school if I’m not blogging consistently. The 100,000 post really doesn’t count as a serious blog, but school has started and I have a full load: Music in the Black Church (in lieu of Intro to Greek 2 taught by an incompetent professor resulting in me […]
Read more "While I Was In School…"How does one really write about the inauguration and really capture the moment? Seriously, what does even a reporter begin to sit down at their laptop and submit the leading story on CNN.com or the Washington Post about the inauguration and really capture the moment, not some file story where they “insert date” and “insert […]
Read more "It Almost Didn’t Happen, But Thank God It Did: an Uppity Negro Inauguration Story Part One"I mentioned it earlier this month in a blog, but I didn’t devote a whole blog to it, but, um, yeah, I really don’t have words to describe my ultimate disgust with the King Center’s choice to pick Rick Warren as the MLK day speaker. Perhaps I’ll buy the claim that theologically Rick Warren […]
Read more "I Have No Words…For the King Committee Picking Rick Warren for MLK Day Speaker"The bellwether for the dismal position that the U.S. Department of Justice had found themselves in presented itself in the attempted suicide of Mychal Bell at the end of last year. If that name rings a bell, it should because his name was pre-eminent in the Jena 6. Mychal Bell says he felt pressure to […]
Read more "Eric Holder’s Uphill Battle"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 