(ThyBlackMan.com) President Obama received some bad news this week:  A recent Gallup Poll found that the approval rating for the president has dropped below 40 percent for the first time ever.  A full 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the job the president is doing.   This revelation puts President Obama into ...

(ThyBlackmMan.com) Does the new film, The Help, show Black actresses playing maids to illustrate truths about a bygone era, or simply as cover to exploit and demean them as the movies have always done? The first feature length movie Hollywood produced was D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film, Birth of A ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I fell in love with Ron Paul all over again the other night. Not that kind of love – relax.  Love his candor and his straight to the point demeanor that he projects. Not knowing the man personally I can’t really speak too much to that. Aside from that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Communication is often the underlying reason why many marriages disintegrate.  Couples argue and verbally fight and say some of the most emotionally damaging and hurtful words to each other.  Instead of engaging in such negative interchange, it would prove far better for those individuals in a one-flesh union to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Rappers are faced with “selling out” or staying true.  Both have their pros and cons, so which one to choose? I remember as a kid in 4th grade, listening to Ja Rule on the radio and watching him on 106 & Park daily. Letting him remind me why, at ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett.  Why, you ask? Because I read the book. Last week New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni saw an advance screening of the movie and referred ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is becoming increasingly clear that President Obama and Democrats need pressure from within the party to force them to stand their ground against the Tea Party insurrection in Congress. As was evident in the recent debt ceiling fiasco, conservative House Republicans have gravitated even farther to the right ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Texas governor and reported GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is the nation’s greatest political con artist. His so called “Texas Miracle” has been totally debunked as a fraud. Yet Perry, with generous help from conservative business leaders, tea party acolytes, and suddenly revved up evangelicals will keep the con ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Reading the mainstream liberal press, one might be brainwashed to believe Obama is the Messiah incarnate and Republicans are spawns of Satan.  All this garbage talk that somehow Tea Party members of Congress brought America to the brink of default and are collectively responsible for the country receiving its ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama and Tiger Woods appear to have something in common. Recently, their devilish friends turned on them! To me, no one has benefited more from the Barack Obama presidency than America’s devilish beast bankers! Congress, with the president’s endorsement and support, made it possible for banks to ...