Why Are Blacks Identifying with a White Woman for the Presidency?

Obamawatch 2008! Continues
 I placed this one in the category of Musings from the Classroom because inherently, my inspiration for this one came from me standing around after class and surrounding myself in the company of more of my enlightened colleagues
 As the Baptists conventions of this country meet here in Atlanta, some of the past graduate [...]

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Toni Morrison’s endorsing Barack Obama

Don’t get me wrong, I like Sen. Barack Obama, and we all know that I endorse his candidacy, but Dr. Leslie Callahan did mention that her issue is that there is no woman of color who is poised in the political arena to move through the ranks of our representative government.  That being said, I [...]

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Good Press for Obama’s pastor?

An Obamawatch 2008! exclusive article.
This is an article that I received via email concerning the media’s perpetual fascination with Sen. Barack Obama and his pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.  I think it does stand to reason that any article published in a newspaper of a major city [...]

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Obamawatch 2008!

We are now on Obamawatch 2008!
I vowed that after the South Carolina primaries, and the presumable win of Sen. Obama that I would then put the Uppity Negro Network on Obamawatch and make a concerted effort to pay closer attention to the political pundits since I can now avail myself of the cable news networks, [...]

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Back on the Grind

This post is intended to merely announce (and in a weird way) celebrate my return back to the grind of school life.  As I drove the nearly 11 hours back to Atlanta during the middle of the night at the end of Martin Luther King Day, I heard a particular news report that said that [...]

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New Blog Skin

Just let me know if you like how the new blog is set up.
JLL

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A Generation Gap: an Excuse to vote for Obama

I was mentioning to my mother just the other day that the African American voting bloc was looking for one good excuse to vote for Barack Obama and the Iowa caucuses gave them that excuse.  Black people in this country were sick and tired of the “symbolic” candidate much in the form of Rev. Al [...]

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I’ve Come Too Far Not To Throw My Rock!

I Samuel 17:40, 49-50a
1Sa 17:40 Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine. 49 And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it [...]

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Confronting Obama with a ‘Farrakhan Test’

This rarely happens, but this is in fact an article that stands alone and I have no extra commentary with which to support it.  Steven Benen does an excellent job in stating his point.  This was an email forward and I hope that those who read it pass it on to their friends and put this [...]

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Obama’s church congregation furious at ‘racism’ accusations

This is the United Church of Christ’s stance on the fallout following Sen. Barack Obama’s announcing his candidacy for President.  I thoroughly encourage every one to read this and pass it on to whomever to stop the inane and utterly vile rhetoric that has been spewed from the mouths of ignorant and backwater people with [...]

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