(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re Black and Muslim in this country, you’ve been looking over your shoulder at least since September 11th. Historically that’s always been the case. Racists have always considered Muslims the worst threat to business as usual. That’s why recurrent domestic incarnations of the Crusades rear their pointy heads. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) grace (n) disposition to or an act or instance of kindness, courtesy or clemency. *Today’s lesson, boys and girls will be all about grace–good manners. Once upon a time, there were manners classes–etiquette if you will. But now, there are no standards and many of society’s most ignorant boors simply ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me start by saying this: I don’t know if Lawrence Taylor raped anyone, and neither do you. I do not have the ability to presume guilt or innocence just yet, because I have not seen the evidence. But you know what? That probably doesn’t matter anymore, since Taylor’s face ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you see the latest Tyler Perry movie, Why Did I Get Married Too? I just did. Let me tell you about it. Oh, by the way, did you hear about the rift between Spike Lee and Tyler Perry? Spike took Perry to task for his characters, like Medea. And ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) SUGGESTED BLACK MALE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TACTIC IN THE WAKE OF THE AZ ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LAW: WHEN STOPPED BY POLICE STATE SLOWLY YOU’RE ” A MEXICAN HERE ILLEGALLY AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO STOP ME! ” and watch the reaction! A lawyer friend of mine also opposes illegal immigration. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How about an urban tea party? Why not high profile, center right events where Black citizens and fellow Americans with urban concerns unite to discuss the Obama Administration thus far and community issues? Urban rallies need not be liberal led to authentically air views from this constituency. The ‘hood ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) AN EARLY MEMORIAL DAY/FOURTH OF JULY 2010 MEDITATION: ” Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ” warns Samuel Johnson from the past. While I have healthy civic duty, I always draw the line at calling myself a patriot. It’s too easy to slap on the label ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent days an enormous discussion has taken form within many American quarters, as Dr. Henry Louis Gates has once again weighed in on the question of reparations for African Americans. The Harvard Professor’s most recent article entitled, “Ending the Slavery Blame Game”, in which Gates produces information regarding those ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, “when you have the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots,’ the police powers are meant to keep the haves having and that forces the have-nots to have-not.” Henry “Kee Kee” Watson, one of a group now known as The LA Four in the beating of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama wasted no time in denouncing Arizona’s hard-nosed anti-immigration law. He called it misguided, irresponsible and a threat to civil liberties. Obama’s right. The bill is wasteful, unenforceable, and more ominously virtually a license for police to engage in racial profiling. But it’s also popular in Arizona and judging ...