You Gotta Have Fun Sometimes! (A Manifesto)
“I know y'all gonna feel me on this one You gotta feel me on this one” -Rick Ross, “Sixteen” ft. Andre 3000 Ever since I was a kid, I always had the gift of analytical thinking. Well, it’s a gift and a curse. Because of my habit of overanalyzing things, I always felt...
Black Folk Need to Come Clean
I mean really. Let's have a heart-to-heart about the "real deal" when it comes to all of these mouth-dragging open book 'stats' about the State of the Black Parent, the Black Family, the Black Men, the Black Women, Black schools, public, private and otherwise; etc,...
Restaurant at center of Paula Dean Race Discrimination Lawsuit Closed!
Uncle Bubbas Seafood And Oyster House, the restaurant whose manager sued celebrity chef Paula Deen and, in the process, effectively destroyed her empire are now, yet another casualty of the cook's nationally publicized racist scandal. According to news accounts...
Was Bill Cosby Right When He Verbally Lashed The Black Community?
They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain't, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the...
Place Yourself In A Position to Succeed By Any Means Necessary
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” - Vince Lombardi On Monday night, I decided to tune in to The Arsenio Hall Show. I always try my best to find time to catch the talk...
Does The Black Community Want To Work On Solutions Or Just Bitch About Problems?
This is a serious question. Frankly, I want to believe the former is where we are as a community, but the position I sit in everyday makes me believe the latter is the truth. I'm one of the moderators here at Urban Intellectuals and it may not seem like much, but it...
10 Television Shows of the 1960s and Later that Did NOT Stereotype Black People
Engagingly enough, there were some Hollywood celebrities and TV shows that were culturally sensitive, even during a time when "Sapphire," "Sambo," "Amos & Andy," "Aunt Jemammy" and "Uncle Ruckus," as well as "JJ ~Dynomite~ Evans" were standard fare for white...
DeSean Jackson’s Philadelphia Departure Goes Much Deeper
I have been a fan of the NFL’s Washington Redskins for over 30 years. NFL fans know that the Redskins have been one of the league’s poster children for futility for quite some time. That’s why I was elated when my favorite team signed wide receiver DeSean Jackson to a...
Why The Black Teen Admitted To Every Ivy League School Story Must Be Told Over And Over Again
If you haven't heard of Kwasi Enin by now, then you should should be ashamed of yourself. This is the young, black teenager who was accepted into all 8 Ivy League universities. According to many sources, this is a very rare feat because of each schools vastly...
CHALLENGE: All Successful African American’s Should Make It Their Duty To Encourage The Next Generation
It is time to turn the pressure up on you. You the successful African American who has moved from the ghettos of the black community for the suburbs. You who have parlayed your atheletic achievement into college scholarships, built relationships and landing "good...
The Siege of “The Boondocks”
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” -Jim Morrison The world was left in shock when it was announced that The Boondocks would return for its fourth season without creator Aaron McGruder. Users of social media were taken aback by the news. Many took to...
Why she REALLY won’t date you.
Hello UI peeps. This is one that will probably vilify me in the eyes of many men in the UI community. Basically I’m calling out all the punk ass dudes and weak ass brothas in the UI community and in the world. We see it all the time, people whining about how “Women...
NCAA Earns Millions Annually Off Modern Day Servitude
March Madness is well upon us as I write this. Filling out a bracket based on a field of 68 teams vying to become the NCAA champion of college basketball in an effort to win money (or bragging rights for correctly choosing a champion) is a rush that many never thought...
Big Mama to Black America: ‘Go Git ‘Dem Kids!’
Okay, we don't like calling our children "kids" any more. If it ain't one nit-picky thing with Black folk, it's another. BUT ... As a grandmother of seven (last count), I am no less than amazed at all of the thought, talk, and speculation that goes along with...
Thot Intervention: How To Really Get a Baller
“It just isn’t fair how girls get treated differently than guys when it comes to sex. A guy can sleep with every girl in the school and get called a player. A girl can sleep with only a few boys and get called a “hoe”. That’s why girls should keep their sexual lives...
Blackface, White Comfort
And there it was, the icing on the cake of racial stereotypes and defamation. Fashion designers at the Milan Halloween fest in Italy Europe, otherwise spectacles of originality, joined the global peasantry and closed their ranks in what I call the Blackface-polonaise...
Here is What Black Teachers Should Know
No matter your location, your school district, your pitfalls, setbacks, or mountains ahead to climb you are the next life changing influence in a room full of desirable minds who need your best that you can give on your worst day at work and vice versa. If you are...
Nick Cannon White Face Controversy : How It Hurts The Cause Of Racial Equality
Television personality and comedian Nick Cannon debuted his white faced alter-ego "Connor Smallnut" this week on Instagram. The backlash on both sides was immediate, predictable and, as usual, completely overblown. From one side, cries of "reverse racism" came raining...
Top 5 Reasons Why White America Failed Its Black Citizens
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, "came of age," so to speak, we were taught in American civics and citizenship classes that the ultimate redemption in all of life, and the quality of living, is based on attitudes, values, and beliefs. Attitudes, values,...
Yes White Teachers are Often Unqualified to Teach Black Children
Says Heather Mac Donald, from The National Review Online: "Actually, what Ms. Smith-Evans should be trying to fathom is the black crime rate, which explains the school-suspension rate. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at ten times the rate of...
