(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you know about respect? I can admit that I don’t understand the term like I thought I did. I’m not talking about Webster’s definition of the word. I’m talking about getting a clear understanding of the basic fundamentals of the word respect and what it means to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In early 2001, America’s economic future was rosy: Our government was sitting on a massive budget surplus, and the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the next 10 years would carry our nation down the path of seemingly endless prosperity. This was a good time for President George W. Bush ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Editor’s note: Samuel Newby, chairman of the Florida Assembly of Black Republicans, wrote the following letter to Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee and David Bitner, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. I wanted to share my very deep concerns on the extremely negative feedback and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Overshadowed and completely eclipsed by the news of a famous (infamous) recording artist is the news of the sudden passing of Ronald “Butch” Lewis. While discussions could be found all over the Twitterverse about Amy Winehouse passing away, there was not much to be found about Mr. Lewis and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The speedy apprehension, public identification and incriminating right wing, white supremacist rants of alleged Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik partially doused the red hot fire building to launch yet another anti-Muslim witch hunt. The operative word is partially, because despite the steadily mounting evidence that Breivik’s anti-Muslim hatred ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, I’m led to plant a seed – the idea that you could work less . Work is good, especially when you are passionate about it. But there’s more to life than work, so what would it be like if you didn’t have as much? What would you do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It appears that Tiger Woods’ wife is not the only person who has a bone to pick with him. Tiger’s former caddy, Steve Williams, is planning to write a tell-all book about his life with Woods, and some expect that it’s not going to be pretty. After serving by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Watching five members of the House Women’s Caucus unleash their fury at Rep. Allen West for telling Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to “shut the heck up” was comical. Their press conference reminded me of a Saturday Night Live sketch. One couldn’t help but laugh when Rep. Jackie Speier excoriated West ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back when I attended institutional churches, I would sing a song called “Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord.” Although this song has a wonderful melody, the more I learn about Jesus Christ & the New Covenant, the less sense that song makes. Now don’t get me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Anyone who’s a regular reader of this column knows that I’m an aggressive advocate of redefining the skewed cultural mores of the Black community. We’ve allowed ourselves to be inaccurately defined by the corporate media as a people who are shallow, frivolous, anti-intellectual, and whose only interest is in strutting ...