(ThyBlackMan.com) I swear you can’t fuck with me… I love hip-hop. I want to support it. I try to understand those who are a few years behind me and support their efforts to become empowered and thoughtful individuals. But after hearing the lyrics from a Lil Wayne song (an artist who’d already ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As the news was recently released that black leaders had convened to attack the 40-year old war on drugs, I could hear the collective “amen” coming from millions of black folks all across America. I also heard my phone ring at 5:30 am, as a friend of mine in Kansas ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Osama bin Laden was captured and killed earlier this year, the resounding call throughout the nation was to bring our troops back home immediately. Wednesday night, the president responded. Committing to a withdrawal of 10,000 troops by the end of this year, and another 20,000 by the end ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain is offended because Jon Stewart mocked him on his television show. He even said that Stewart attacked him because he is black. Cain, hearing that Stewart ridiculed the fact that he said that he wouldn’t sign bills longer than three pages, had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney wasted no time in intimating that it was politics more than necessity that prompted President Obama’s cautious phased drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan. Romney’s gentle knock that it was politics not pragmatism of Obama was tame compared to other GOP critics who accused ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Fox News has always been the enemy to many on the left. The place where “fair and balanced news” is often tilted like a broken pinball machine. Where talking point memos are created as marching orders for conservative America. A network that we assume to be evil, yet what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are all familiar with Hans Christian Anderson’s fable ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’; wherein two tricksters come to town and convince an ego laden Emperor and a susceptible town folk that as he rides in his carriage amidst a ceremonial parade, he is adorned in magnificent clothing. It took ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just a few days ago, a college football player was booted off a US Airways flight for having sagging pants. As it turns out, sagging pants is considered to be worse than a man wearing nothing but a pair of panties. A US Airways spokesperson confessed as much on Tuesday, as she had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everybody must be lying except R. Kelly. For you to support R. Kelly, that is what you must believe. Otherwise it’s difficult to reconcile supporting the singer/songwriter on any level, artistic or otherwise. We can have the shallow and rehashed debate of separating the artist from his/her artistry, but ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Close to 40% of Americans grow up without a father. This explains why so many people are bitter, angry and sometimes even hostile towards men. It explains it, with the caveat of complete blame for men, which is becoming an American pastime. Who knows how many of those fathers ...