(ThyBlackMan.com) I got a call today from CNN to discuss the new initiative launched by the White House called “My brother’s keeper.” From what I’d gathered, the program is one that is designed to create opportunities for men of color, which I certainly appreciate. I’ll admit that while I agree ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mr. President, First, I’d like to thank you so much for reaching out to the people and asking us what WE want for a change. That alone is a refreshing change from what we generally see from our government. So you’re already off to a great start in creating ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I think I speak for a lot of normal black people when I say that I sometimes grow tired of the rapper Rick Ross. Ross has always been a creative, yet relatively useless public figure in the past, but his recent disrespect for the legacy of Trayvon Martin might be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was just strollin’ down memory lane, thinking about the old-school hustlers of my youth. They were a lot different than these youngsters who think they’re players and hustlers today. No joggin’ suits and tennis shoes for these brothers, it was Florsheim’s, and very expensive Brooks Bros. suits all the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, has good reason to be upset with her brothers, Dexter and Martin Luther King III. A judge recently ruled that Bernice must hand over her father’s Nobel Peace Prize and bible as part of a court order. The ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our culture is obsessed with beauty. While some women are purchasing an ethnic standard of beauty with fuller lips, larger eyes, and round, full butts; others are running toward the euro-culture standard of long hair, skin lightening, and fat removal. As women, we cannot afford to fall for standards ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the years after enslavement, Southern Whites did all they could to return to a manner of slavery. No White “owned” a Black person, but many Whites behaved as if they did. Theoretically, Blacks were free to come and go as they pleased, but if they went to the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the past few months there have been several news stories about no Blacks owning major broadcast TV stations anymore. The cries have bordered on mass hysteria. It turns out that the story is not true. Most of this hysteria in the media has been created by a Free ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here’s how the latest episode of the debt ceiling drama will end: Congress will raise or suspend the country’s borrowing limit, probably for as much as a year. The debt ceiling problem is something that must be solved, and solved soon. People in and out of Congress need to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the easiest ways to keep black people enslaved in America is by enslaving our minds. Barred from an adequate education or true sense of history, many of us are wired to love our oppressors more than we love ourselves. Even during Black History Month, you’re quite ...