Dear White People: Simple Comedic Satire or Complex Real-Life Drama

If you’re black and want to go to an HBCU, go watch “School Daze,” if you want to go to a PWI, go see “Dear White People.” If you’re white and have no idea what I’m talking about, go watch both movies. Justin Simien’s directoral debut “Dear White People” was and is a refreshing look […]

The Failure of Black Elitism: An Armchair Case Study of Morehouse College

In the words and tonality of President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address let me be perfectly clear that I hate elitism in the black community with a burning passion. It has done nothing but separate us economically and rendered us even further divided on class boundaries. That being said, I’m over […]

Joshua Lawrence Lazard

The blog of the one formerly known as The Uppity Negro

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Dear White People: Simple Comedic Satire or Complex Real-Life Drama

The Failure of Black Elitism: An Armchair Case Study of Morehouse College