Nation in love with minstrelsy: Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, Snoop Dogg and struggle to define blackness…
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tyler Perry is the most successful black filmmaker in the history of the world. He recently said that fellow filmmaker Spike Lee, perhaps best known for shooting off his mouth, could “go straight to hell.” Well, now. Lee does not like Perry’s films, in which he plays “Aunt Madea,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that Jalen Rose of ESPN (and the Fab Five at Michigan) wasn’t aware that he was being arrested when he was stopped for DUI. Here is a transcript of Jalen’s interaction with the police officer in the back of a squad car on the night he was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bishop Eddie Long spoke to his congregation on Easter Sunday, stepping back into the public eye after a period of silence and detachment from the media. For whatever reason, Long decided to address the young men who are suing him for sexual misconduct, telling them that he refuses to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The natives are restless again. It seems the more I try to sell what’s good about the Republican party to my liberal and black friends, fiscal responsibility, limited government and lower taxes, the harder it gets. Republicans continue to prove racism is alive, well and kicking within the established ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever the U.S. government enters into a state of fiscal austerity, politicians always look for budget cuts from programs they deem to be less important or have little or no constituency. Foreign policy budgets, especially those directed towards Africa seem to always show up near the top of that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You can make a difference when it comes to insulating your children from the harmful effects of unavoidable divorce. Children of divorce are most affected by ongoing conflict, absent parents, and financial shifts in lifestyle. Moreover, how the child responds to the divorce is modeled by how each parent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re like me… you don’t want your hard earned money to get way I bet if you’re reading this you’re the type of person who is not shy about using money saving tip’s and methods if they keep more money in your pocket If you are a saver ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The first decade of the new millennium brought a lot of things that the world didn’t expect: the ability to order a pizza on your home computer, cell phones that allow you to talk to your friends face-to-face, and our nation’s first black president. One other unexpected event of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While the world’s attention is fixed primarily on turmoil in Libya, Syria and Yemen, thousands of Ivorians are being murdered in fighting that pits supporters of Côte d’Ivoire incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo against challenger Alassane Ouattara. Both men claim to have won the disputed election in a country already ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One hundred and fifty years ago, the Civil War began. Americans suffered more loss of life than in World War I and World War II combined. Slavery was ended, but racial inequity was not. In the South, denial that slavery was the root cause of the secession and war ...