…as we celebrate yet another year of pseudo-liberties, as our civil liberties are constantly under attack in this era of terror. Well, enough about white America, this really just a day off for the rest of us to barbecue. Mama Uppity was always leery of 4th of July picnics and Memorial Day celebrations as well. […]
Read more "On this Independence Day…"I’ve never really said it, but I was always a Will Smith fan–at least as far as acting is concerned. I never bought, nor intended to buy one of his albums, even though he did have that one song I remember, Switch, that I thought was good, he always struck me as an actor, not […]
Read more "When ‘Hancock’ met That Woman"We all have seen those commercials with children looking lost, with flies lighting on them, distended stomachs from severe starvation; playing or standing on piles of rubbish and garbage and outright sewage. Most of us turn away, including yours truly, because it’s really hard and painful to watch as most of us sit in the […]
Read more "Sponsoring a Dream"The only thing worse than white innocence is white ignorance. A quick Google search didn’t show that the aforementioned quote is a particularly famous one, so I’m personally attributing it to my friend over at Soul Jonz. That quote was the result of title statement that my host mother told me. We were all sitting […]
Read more "So Hip Hop is from the prison culture? I missed the memo"Today, I had a little change in my pocket so I finally drove up and down the main drag here in Gaithersburg looking for a barber. I saw something that had “platinum” and “barber” in the same name and I figured that it was a black one. So, I got my haircut, experienced my first […]
Read more "A ‘Premature Autopsy’"Honestly, I don’t know what to be more torn up about– The death of the great NBC legend from Meet the Press, Tim Russert or the fact that somehow R. Kelly was accquited. Truth be told, I’mmore torn up about two other things, one of which was the fact that I saw Facebook status messages […]
Read more "A Sorrowful Day"Well, where I’m staying at this summer, somehow has fried my wireless connection with their particular router–go figure, so I’m relegated to staying late at my job and using the company’s computer. Hmmmm…wonder what they would say if they decided to do a History check and see name’s like “uppity negro” “averagebro” “black snob” and […]
Read more "An Uppity Update"THIS is a blog I’d rather not feel moved to write. I’ve already set a task before me of a list of blogs that I was supposed to be writing exploring some of the issues surrounding the recent Democratic campaign events. Pushing those issues further make making them less and less relevant. BUT, the fact that […]
Read more "Saving Face over Faith; Pfleger removed from his pastorate"As most every knows by know who is a regular reader of this blog that I’m staying with a host family for the summer while I do my internship. Well, tonight, Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 was the night that one of their daughters had her graduation party. June 3rd, 2008 was also the night that that […]
Read more "The Night I Missed History"I’m frustrated. Really frustrated. Seven people were murdered out here in Washington over the weekend and there’s absolutely nothing that will probably be done about it. Furthermore, the majority of the people were probably black. I’m also frustrated that Sean Bell, another black man was killed, and nothing truly effective was nor probably will be done to […]
Read more "It’s Safe To Murder Negroes"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 