(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible instructs us to “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” –Proverbs 22:6 Now this does not mean that a child will not make mistakes, it simply means that when you lay a foundation ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What GOP presidential contender Herman Cain lacks in political experience, he likes to say, he makes up for with decades’ worth of success in corporate America. He climbed the corporate ladder at the Pillsbury Company, chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and rescued the failing Godfather’s Pizza ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I believe that one of the most powerful men in the Bible had to have been the Apostle Paul. He had endured much, experienced much, and yet felt the need to mentor a young man by the name of Timothy. I am very partial to Timothy because I believe ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Princeton University professor Cornel West’s silly, shoot-from the lip slur of President Obama as a black puppet predictably got the headline that he knew it would for two reasons. The first is that the slur came not from the professional Obama baiters, Sarah Palin, Limbaugh, and Michelle Bachman, Tea ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The most precious moment of my day is walking in the door and hearing my boys racing to the door to see who can be the first to jump into my arms. Wow, what a feeling! Yes my boys are at the age where me coming home is still ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) First it was government rule by more than a dozen unelected and congressionally unapproved czars who subverted industry management and the financial system trying to prop up previously ill conceived housing policies and banking greed. Then it was a nontransparent health care plan which bypassed the right of review ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany began an interesting conversation last week, one that could open a Pandora’s Box of political issues among NCAA athletes. Delany admitted that NCAA athletes deserve more than the scholarships they are receiving right now, and this led to other power brokers in the NCAA to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) How much sleep is enough? Is how sleepy you feel a good judge of whether or not you are getting enough sleep? If you get less sleep than some ideal amount but you feel fine, could you be damaging your health anyway? Are we getting less than we used ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Herman Cain just announced his candidacy for President of the United States. I have a few fleeting thoughts about Cain and his chances of becoming the next president. While Cain’s chances of being president are about as great as mine, we must remember that there was a time when ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I went back in history and pulled out a quote from my sister Fannie Lou Hamer to write this article, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” After tossing my thoughts around for a few days in order to suppress my anger about the latest negative comments ...